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Title George D. Pyper correspondence, Salt Lake Theatre memorial plaque dedication, 1940
Alternative Title MS001_059_05
Creator Pyper, George D. (George Dollinger), 1860-1943; Grant, Heber J. (Heber Jeddy), 1856-1945; Young, Mahonri Mackintosh, 1877-1957
Date 1940-05-11; 1940-09-25; 1940-09-26; 1940-09-27; 1940-09-30; 1940-10-01; 1940-10-02; 1940-08; 1940-10-04
Date Digital 2017-05-10
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Subject Salt Lake Theatre; Theaters--Utah--Salt Lake City--Archives; Pyper, Pyper, George D. (George Dollinger), 1860-1943--Archives; Pyper, George D. (George Dollinger), 1860-1943--Correspondence
Description Set of 23 letters, articles, and papers related to the dedication of the Salt Lake Theatre memorial fund drive. Includes: 14 letters of late September, 1940, from George D. Pyper to various participants in the dedication ceremony; letter of 27 Sept. 1940 from LDS President Heber J. Grant to Pyper; letter of 1 Oct. 1940 from Ethel Macdonald, City Recorder, about the Salt Lake City board of commissioners granting petition relating to the dedication ceremony; letter of 2 Oct. 1940 from Ethel Macdonald, City Recorder, about the Board accepting invitation to attend the dedication; transcript of a letter of 30 Sept. 1940 from Mahonri Young, designer of the memorial plaque, explaining the meaning of the figures shown on the plaque; telegram of 1 Oct. 1940 from Frederick H. Reid sending regrets re not attending the ceremony; copy of the August 1940 issue of "I.T." by the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company, with picture of the Salt Lake Theatre on the cover and an article about Salt Lake City and an article about the Salt Lake Theatre by George Pyper; mimeographed program for the dedication ceremony held on 4 Oct. 1940; and copies of two articles, one from the May 11, 1940, issue of the Deseret News about the plaque, the other about fund drive by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers to raise a Pioneer Memorial building on Capitol Hill that would be a replica of the old Salt Lake Theatre.
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Scanning Technician Janelle Michaelis; Halima Noor; Mazi Rakhsha
Conversion Specifications PDF-A created using Adobe Acrobat X. Online PDF created using Tesseract.
ARK ark:/87278/s6gr0rph
Setname uum_gdpc
ID 1259252
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gr0rph

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