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The Frederick Stewart Buchanan papers (1880-2010) consist of materials relating to his professional research and teaching activities. Included are books, news clippings, articles, notes, oral history transcriptions, personal and professional correspondence, and research documents on Mormon history, Scottish immigrants, and the history of education in Utah. Buchanan is professor emeritus of educational studies at the University of Utah.

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The Emigration Office rations payment is from 1863.

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The Ethnic Archives oral histories audio recordings (1966-1997) consists of interviews with individuals from various Utah communities. Groups represented include: Croatian, Greek, Spanish, Japanese, Mexican, Zuni, Paiute, other Native American communities, and women in Utah politics. The collection also features items about general Western history. The American West Center is dedicated to documenting the history of the intermountain region and surrounding areas.

Abstract The Utah Endowment for the Humanities funded the Oral History Institute (OHI) of Salt Lake City to conduct interviews with members of different ethnic minorities and racial groups. This particular series of interviews with Italians took place in 1987. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the 1880s to 1987. Common themes within the interviews are family life, work, religion, discrimination, and relations with the community, and in particular the Mormon establishment...

Abstract The interviews with Jews in Utah collection [transcripts] (1982-1988) is part of a project funded by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities and undertaken by the Oral History Institute of Salt Lake City, Utah. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the 1880s to 1986. Common themes include family life, immigration, relations with the LDS community, religious activity, the...

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The Jewish oral history project (1972-1977) was conducted by the American West Center and consists of a series of interviews between 1972 and 1977 with local Jewish Americans concerning life in Utah.

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The Jewish oral history project audio recordings (1972-1982) document the experiences of various people of the Jewish community in Utah and surrounding areas. The American West Center conducted this and other ethnic oral history projects in an attempt to record the experiences Utah's eithnic minorities.

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The Dorothee Kocks oral histories (1994-1995) consist of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted in 1994-1995 documenting migration experiences and labor history in Utah from 1984 to 1995. The interviewers were students at the University of Utah enrolled in History 170 which was taught by Dorothee Kocks, Assistant Professor of History.

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The Helen Zeese Papanikolas papers (1954-2001) contain materials concerning the research and writing of this Utah historian and folklorist. Included are correspondence, research files, news clippings, oral history manuscripts, published and unpublished articles.

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The South Slavic oral history project (1972-1973) consists of transcripts of interviews with about forty individuals of South Slavic descent.