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Universities and colleges -- Utah -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Adam S. Bennion papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1
Scope and Contents

Speeches, meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to Bennion's personal, educational, business, and religious activities. The largest amount of the materials relate to his speeches. The bulk of correspondence is between other apostles and general authorities of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1909-1958

L.D.S. Church academies music departments, 1905-1921

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232490315]
Identifier: MSS 650
Scope and Contents

Handwritten reminiscences. The date of its composition is uncertain. Driggs writes about his teaching activities in the music departments of several academies owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Arizona. He also relates his experiences as a student at Brigham Young University.

Dates: approximately 1950

John Rockey Park diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 638
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a diary with handwritten corrections. Also included are photocopies of the handwritten original diary. Park writes about visits to the University of Deseret by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints including Brigham Young and Orson Pratt, tells about hiring Karl G. Maeser, and describes educational financing and the nature of education in Utah.

Dates: 1869-1886

Parley P. Pratt legal act

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233292751]
Identifier: Vault MSS 708
Scope and Contents

Handwritten act signed by Parley P. Pratt appropriating funds to the University of Deseret.

Dates: 1853

Royal Skousen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8255
Scope and Contents Consists of linguistic research and career files (most notably on Skousen's theory of analogical modeling, Finnish morphology, English spelling, statistics and probability, quantum computing, and syntax), as well as presentations and articles, student and colleague files, independent consulting work and editorships. Also contains personal and family files, as well as Book of Mormon Critical Text Project files (research and drafts, collations, writing and publication files, Book of...
Dates: 1951-2020

Alma B. Wright papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1394
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, speeches, drawings, and memorabilia. The materials relate to Wright's carrer as a painter, as a lecturer, and as an educator at institutions of highter learning in Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1907-1931