By Jerald and Sandra Tanner

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Ralph W. Hansen (the man who refused us photocopies when working as manuscript librarian of the B.Y.U.) has written the following concerning Modern Microfilm Co. in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 1966, page 154:

Microfilm, Xerox and other forms of photo-duplication have made possible inexpensive reproductions of out-of-print or rare books and newspapers. As far as the L.D.S. Church is concerned, such photo-publications are a mixed blessing. Jerald Tanner of Modern Microfilms (Salt Lake City, Utah) has used photo-publications to reproduce early Church and anti-Church works in wholesale lots. Mr. Tanner’s object is to embarrass the Church to which he at one time gave allegiance. His reproductions are often as weak as his motives for doing them.

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