The Mormon Battalion Monument Commission was established in 1915 with the expressed purpose of organizing an effort to memorialize the 500 members of Utah's Mormon Battalion through the construction of a monument on Utah's capital hill. This series contains nine original blueprints which show various elevations for the construction of the monument.; Numerical by sheet number.; Historical Note; Monument blueprints; Blueprints of the Mormon Battalion Monument, 1922
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Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Politics, Government, and Law; UMAbroad--Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; UMAbroad--Politics, Government, and Law
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This series is classified as Public.
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These records are available for reproduction and use.
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Correspondence from the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission, Series 1141, provides correspondence belonging to the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission.Administrative records from the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission, Series 1155, provide information on the administration of the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission as well as a collection of various photographs related to the project.Design competition artwork from the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission, Series 10891, offers an early vision of the monument as presented in the award winning water color painting submitted in the 1921 design selection competition.Daughters of the Mormon Battalion records from the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission, Series 25155, present documents related to the planning and constructing of the monument.Scrapbook and Newspaper Clippings from the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission, Series 25156, document press reaction to both the Mormon Battalion and the monument created in their honor.