In the early 1970s, a group of BYU professors began to collect, in microfilm or photocopy, photographs, manuscripts, maps, and documents related to Latter-day Saint history. Their efforts were concentrated in state, county, city, and town record repositories, archives and libraries, as well as historical society libraries, and college and university libraries. A. Gary Anderson and Milton V. Backman, Jr., faculty members of the Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, did research on Mormon Church history. Anderson worked in New Hampshire in 1973 and Backman did research in Ohio in 1974. Two later additions were added. The first addition complements the original collection. The second contains, specifically, writings of early Latter-day Saints and their contemporaries.
From the description of Milton V. Backman and A. Gary Anderson collection of early Mormon manuscripts, 1772-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367180208
