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What is the Library of Congress Collection of Mormon Diaries
The Library of Congress Collection of Mormon Diaries is a collection of transcripts of journals, diaries, biographies, life sketches, historical sketches of localities, and other documents pertaining to early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the history of the state of Utah. The transcripts, chiefly typewritten, were made in 1936-1937 by the Utah Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Projects. Transcripts were created in Logan, Ogden, Provo, Salt Lake City, St. George, and elsewhere in Utah. Transcripts list, where applicable, the name and locality of the possessor of the original from which the transcripts were made.

The collection consists of 13 rolls of microfilm created for the University of California, Berkeley by the Library of Congress, created from manuscripts at the Library of Congress. The collection at the Bancroft Library at Berkeley is titled "Mormon Biographies," and the films are numbered BANC MSS P-F 319 Reel 1 through 13.

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