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Contains source material, including extracts from a variety of sources such as university presidential papers, correspondence, diaries and journals, minutes of various meetings, published sources, personal histories, and reports. Many of the items exhibit annotations of staff members. Materials date from approximately 1835 to 1976.

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Contains drafts and associated correspondence for both the one-volume history and multi-volume history of Brigham Young University. Materials date from between 1972 and 1977.

Scope and Contents Contains materials related to the multi-volume history, Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years. Includes draft subsections of chapter critiques and outlines, foreword, preface, acknowledgements, editor's introduction, volume one (chapters 1-14 and appendices), volume two (editor's comments, chapters 15-30, and appendices), volume three (editor's comments, and chapters 31-44), volume four (chapters 45-55 and appendices), including correspondence about the book (in progress and...

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Contains general correspondence, production and distribution files, drafts and draft correspondence, including chapters files, index, galleys, pertaining to the single-volume history, Brigham Young University: A School of Destiny. Materials date from between 1972 and 1977.

Scope and Contents Contains transcripts of interviews of assorted Unviversity staff, past and present, and card files and compiled lists of the various topical and source codes used by staff researchers. It consists primarily of notes by staff members on personal interviews conducted with university personnel, alumni, and others possessing information concerning the history of the university. Several of these interviews were tap recorded. For several of these taped interviews partial transcripts were produced....

Scope and Contents Contains documents created and/or accumulated by Centennial History Project participants. Documents in the collection contain information relative to at least two major areas of interest: 1) The operation of the Centennial History Project; 2) The actual history of the University.The various administrative, correspondence, source material, and draft files in the collection reveal the inner workings of the project. Closely documented is the manner in which the project was pursued...

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Contains research card files, divided into Maeser, Brimhall, and Cluff eras and Wilkinson era, note cards containing extracts from primary source materials. Note cards were not created for the Harris and McDonald presidential eras. Many of the notes are taken from sources in the topical and chronological files. Materials date from between 1972 and 1979.

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Contains source materials consulted by the project staff. Includes copies of source materials and notes from sources consulted. Much of the material in these files was gathered from library and archival holdings at various institutions, including Brigham Young University, University of Utah, Utah State Historical Society, the Church Historical Department, and Southern Utah University.

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Contains the combined correspondence files of all staff members for the multi-volume history. Includes correspondence with Wilkinson, other staff members, university personnel, and various individuals who furnished information or source materials for the history. Attached to some items of correspondence are copies of source materials. Materials date from between 1972 and 1976.

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Contains topical files, including biographical and historical sketches, articles of incorporation, periodicals, minutes, statistics, journal and diary extracts, minutes of meetings, published information, personal histories, biographical sketches, research notes, and some correspondence on a wide variety of topics. Materials date from between 1864 and 1974.