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UA 1029 Collection of Brigham Young University athletics photographs

The Brigham Young University Archives is pleased to announce the availability of a new digital collection: Collection of Brigham Young University athletics photographs (UA 1029). This collection contains photographs of Brigham Young University athletic teams, players, and events in a variety of sports. Photographs date from 1893 to 1989. The easiest way to access the …

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Special Collections Authors You’ve Never Heard Of

Part VI: Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) April 18 is another literary anniversary! Journalist and author Richard Harding Davis was born 150 years ago today. His parents were both writers; his father was a Philadelphia newspaper editor and his mother Rebecca Harding Davis was a prolific 19th century (though today, largely forgotten), novelist. Richard Harding Davis …

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The Passover Haggadah

To mark the beginning of Passover today, we are highlighting Special Collections’ facsimiles of manuscripts of the Haggadah (plural: Haggadot). In Judaism, the Haggadah is the book of prayers, songs and readings for the Seder service celebrating Passover. Manuscripts of the Haggadah from the Middle Ages to modern times survive today. Special Collections owns facsimiles …

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Benjamin F. Cummings papers

Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cummings was a professor of Classical Languages at Brigham Young University from the 1920s until the 1950s. He was a professor of foreign languages with French as a specialty. The University Archives holds a collection that documents Professor Cummings experiences at Brigham Young University (UA 171 Benjamin F. Cummings papers, 1925-1955). …

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How did we get the Doctrine and Covenants? (part 4)

This is the fourth and final posting in a series promoting our exhibit of the history of the Doctrine and Covenants, which will be up from now until April graduation.  Previous posts have discussed the early manuscript versions of revelations, publishing revelations in The Evening and Morning Star in Independence, Missouri in 1832, and the creation (and near …

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How did we get the Doctrine and Covenants? (part 3)

This posting is the third in a series promoting our exhibit of the history of the Doctrine and Covenants, which will be up from now until April graduation.  Previous posts have discussed the early manuscript versions of revelations and publishing revelations in The Evening and Morning Star in Independence, Missouri in 1832. The first attempt …

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New critical works on Romanticism

Here are a few of the latest critical monographs added to the Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth and the Robert Burns Collection. All are now available to consult in our reading room. Jasper Cragwall, Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830. Ohio State University Press, 2013. Call number: Rowe Collection PR 468 …

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