Item Detail
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30762
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English
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Introducing Mormon Americana
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BYU Studies
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Fall 1992
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32
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3
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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59-61
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"In 1987 a special session of the annual meeting of the pacific coast branch of the american historical association met at the Henry E Huntington library in san marino california this session provided a forum for several archivists to survey and assess the manuscripts and rare book collections in their respective repositories relating to Mormonism following these meetings the four individuals who had presented papers agreed to submit them for publication in BYU Studies and the editors of BYU Studies invited other librarians and archivists to submit similar essays on their Mormon collections the offer was accepted and the original four essays expanded to twenty-one giving broad coverage to almost all the major repositories holding Mormon materials in the united states in addition to such repositories as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, the state historical society of Wisconsin, Bancroft, and Huntington all the major libraries in Utah are represented by essays that survey their Mormon holdings there are also essays on folklore and photo archive collections throughout the country" [Author]