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"Temple Pro Tempore": The Salt Lake City Endowment House, Lisle G. Brown
"Temple Pro Tempore": The Salt Lake City Endowment House, Lisle G. Brown
Librarian Research
The Salt Lake City Endowment House, built of adobe, was located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. It served as a temporary temple during the construction of the Salt Lake Temple. It was completed in 1855 and razed in 1889. Using original floor plans, photographs, maps, and descriptions by persons who participated in its sacretodal activities, the author recreates its exterior and interior appearance. Floor plans and elevations of the building, prepared especially for the paper, are also included. The events leading to is destruction are chronicled. Finally, the author discusses the building’s influence on subsequent Mormon temple …
Appalachia’S Borderland Brokers: The Intersection Of Kinship, Diplomacy, And Trade On The Trans-Montane Backcountry, 1600-1800, Kevin T. Barksdale
Appalachia’S Borderland Brokers: The Intersection Of Kinship, Diplomacy, And Trade On The Trans-Montane Backcountry, 1600-1800, Kevin T. Barksdale
History Faculty Research
This paper and accompanying historical argument builds upon the presentation I made at last year’s Ohio Valley History Conference held at Western Kentucky University. In that presentation, I argued that preindustrial Appalachia was a complex and dynamic borderland region in which disparate Amerindian groups and Euroamericans engaged in a wide-range of cultural, political, economic, and familial interactions. I challenged the Turnerian frontier model that characterized the North American backcountry as a steadily retreating “fall line” separating the savagery of Amerindian existence and the epidemic civility of Anglo-America. On the Turnerian frontier, Anglo-American culture washed over the Appalachian and Native American …
An Early American Family Of Flutists, Wendell Dobbs
An Early American Family Of Flutists, Wendell Dobbs
Music Faculty Research
An overview of the history of a dynasty of flutists, flute manufacturers and music publishers established by English emigrant Edward R. Riley in New York. Riley and copperplate printer Thomas Adams formed the firm Riley & Adams in 1812. It is said that all his three sons became music publishers, music instrument manufacturers and retailers.
0767:John R. Hendrickson Collection, 1969, Marshall University Special Collections
0767:John R. Hendrickson Collection, 1969, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of two photographs, one group photo of John R. Hendrickson with Butch Leslie, Jack Brown, Elise Thacker, another of the 1969 group of Phi Kappa Tau members, and one Phi Kappa Tau sweater.
Graduate Catalog, 2008-2009, Marshall University
Graduate Catalog, 2008-2009, Marshall University
Marshall University Catalogs 2000-2009
Marshall University Graduate Catalog for the 2008-2009 academic year.
General Undergraduate Catalog, 2008-2009, Marshall University
General Undergraduate Catalog, 2008-2009, Marshall University
Marshall University Catalogs 2000-2009
Marshall University Undergraduate Catalog for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Graduate Catalog, Spring 2008, Marshall University
Graduate Catalog, Spring 2008, Marshall University
Marshall University Catalogs 2000-2009
Marshall University Graduate Catalog for the Spring 2008 academic year.
0763: Elizabeth Francis Agee Scrapbook, 1929-1934, Marshall University Special Collections
0763: Elizabeth Francis Agee Scrapbook, 1929-1934, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of one scrapbook entitled containing photographs, ephemera, and memorabilia collected by Elizabeth Francis (later Agee) during and after her time at Marshall. Materials in the scrapbook include an autograph and note section, dance cards, sorority correspondence and invitations, student government materials, a student directory, event programs, photographs of Francis at Marshall and, later, family photographs, a gradebook for an 8th grade course taught by Francis, and other mixed materials such as handkerchiefs and calling cards. Also included in the scrapbook are slips of paper identifying subjects or items written by Susan Riggs, Agee’s daughter.