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Architects -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Drafting tools set of Brigham Young

 Item — Object 1: [Barcode: 31197239283986]
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

James C. Woods account book

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227606552]
Identifier: MSS 3874
Scope and Contents

Account book records transactions made by James C. Woods between 1908 and 1925. There is a gap in the entries for the years 1911 to 1918. The entries record payments made and received by Woods during the period, including the name of the entity, the amount, and occasionally the purpose payment.

Dates: 1908-1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / James C. Woods account book

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