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Architecture

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Drafting tools set of Brigham Young

 Item — Object 1
Identifier: MSS 9388
Scope and Contents

This collection is an English drafting tools set that was originally owned and used by Brigham Young to design the streets and building plans for Salt Lake City, Utah. The set was also used by Oliver I. Lay for the creation of a studio commissioned by his father-in-law, Mahonri Mackintosh Young, to create the This is the place monument. Materials dated approximately 1847-1877.

Dates: approximately 1847-1877
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Drafting tools set of Brigham Young

Newspaper clipping of Salt Lake City images

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227622260]
Identifier: MSS 3350
Scope and Contents

Collection includes a single page of the Illustrated Times newspaper, featuring images of Great Salt Lake City and the home of Brigham Young. Page was taken from the July 31, 1858 issue of the paper.

Dates: 1858 July 31
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Newspaper clipping of Salt Lake City images

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