Kent Walgren

KENT WALGREN, a Salt Lake City lawyer and rare bookseller, is currently completing a Bibliography of American Masonic Imprints, 1734-1850, sched￾uled for publication in 1997.

Photography as History: Through Camera Eyes, Nelson B. Wadsworth

Articles/Essays – Volume 10, No. 3

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Some Sentimental Thoughts on Leaving the Fold

Articles/Essays – Volume 13, No. 4

A few Saturdays ago, I stood in the duplication center at the University of Utah, photocopying a book-length manuscript with the cover title: “A Manuscript, by B. H. Roberts.” Halfway through the project, a dark-haired…

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Fast and Loose Freemasonry | Mervin B. Hogan, Mormonism and Freemasonry: The Illinois Episode, and Mervin B. Hogan, The Involvement of Freemasonry with Mormonism on the American Midwestern Frontier

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 3

Mervin B. Hogan, a prolific expositor on the subject of Mormonism and Freemasonry, is apparently gaining some reputation among Mormons and Freemasons alike for “impeccable” and “peerless” scholar ship. (See Jerry Marsengill, Introduction, The Official…

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Inside the Salt Lake Temple: Gisbert Bossard’s 1911 Photographs

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 3

Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 68–97
For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen-year-old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning the sacred Kaaba at Mecca.”

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