Silas Leavitt Fish papers
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, histories, poems, essays, speeches, newspaper clippings, notes, book drafts, articles, minutes, certificates, awards, diplomas, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to the life, career, and interests of Fish and document much of the life of the Mormon community in Arizona.
Dates
- Creation: 1899-1976
Creator
- Fish, Silas Leavitt, 1880-1976 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Educator and local Mormon Church leader in Snowflake, Arizona.
Extent
9 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS1850.xml
Appraisal
Utah and the American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (20th century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.VII, 2007).
Genre / Form
- Articles
- Certificates
- Drafts (Documents)
- Histories (Literary works)
- Letters
- Notes
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Register of Silas Leavitt Fish papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Andrea Wyss
- Date
- 2011 April 5
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States