Item Detail
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30764
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4
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English
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Studying the Saints : Resources for Research in Mormon History at the Huntington Library
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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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71-86
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"When Henry Edwards Huntington retired in 1910 from a successful career in railroading and land development he turned both his great fortune and his vast experience to the advancement of his fondest personal avocation the collecting of rare books and manuscripts already well known for his accomplishments as a collector he now applied himself with greater effort to this pursuit by the time of his death in 1927 he had assembled one of the finest private holdings then in existence relating to anglo american history and literature the research library established by Huntington on the foundation of that private collection has remained one of the preeminent resources for scholarship in america to this day from the beginning it has numbered significant documents of Mormon history among its many treasures." [Author]