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Wallace F. Bennett papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 20
Scope and Contents
Collection contains correspondence, speeches, bills, legislative resolutions, press releases, and financial records that document Wallace F. Bennett's activities during his time as a senator between 1948 and 1974 in Utah and Washington D.C. The central topic of these materials (which were mostly created during Bennett's later terms in the US Senate) is the Cold War, including how to promote peaceful coexistence between the Soviet Union and America. They also reveal the immense changes that...
Dates:
1948-1984
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Challenge to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 869
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a list of demands made by a group of Indian activists to the Mormon Church. It charges that the Mormon missionary efforts among the Indians is an attempt to "brainwash" and is aimed at "destroying" the Indian "culture and heritage." Its demands include composing the Mormon Church "Board" of 76% Indians so that matters relating to the Indians would be resolved favorably to them. Also demanded was the payment of one million dollars annually to the Indians for the...
Dates:
1974
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Walter Howard Draper papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6180
Scope and Contents
Contains missionary diaries, scriptures, and memorabilia; military, NASA, and other civil service personnel papers; family history book and photographs; assorted personal, insurance, and legal papers; and ephemera that includes items from the Netherlands, from the 1938 World's Fair, and NASA. Items dated 1936-1987.
Dates:
1936-1987
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George Albert Goates papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7696
Scope and Contents
Includes six original journals and other miscellaneous notebooks from his mission in the Samoan Islands, family research, genealogical data, and papers from his career.
Dates:
1900-1904
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lilian Joan Lockhart Guy autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1007
Scope and Contents
Typescript of an autobiography. Guy describes her childhood on the island of Tasmania and, at age fifteen, being conscripted into a military clothing factory during World War II. She relates how her family joined the Mormon Church as a unit in 1961 and details their church activities in Brisbane.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Claiborne Harper papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 185
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary, letters, certificates, paroles, and Mormon Church blessings. The diary was kept while Harper served on a mission to the Southern States for the Mormon Church from 1887 to 1888. Also included is an autograph book signed by Mormons in the Utah State prison for polygamy in 1889. The certificates and letters relate to Mormons in Mexico, to Harper's civic appointments in Payson, and to family matters. Two paroles were given to Harper on 10 April 1865 at Appomattox Court...
Dates:
1856-1899
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ira Hyer diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 884
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photocopies of Hyer's diaries. Hyer was called as a Mormon missionary to serve in the Society Islands and labored there from 1912 to 1915. From 1914 to 1915 he served as mission president of the Society Islands Mission. He was a soldier during World War I but saw no action being in Wales when the armistice was signed.
Dates:
1912-1919
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lynn Romney Keenan collection of George W. and Lenore Romney family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8486
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs (prints and negatives), letters, magazines, articles, and speeches relating to professional and political activity of the Romney family in Michigan and Utah. Collection concerns the George W. Romney family, their lives in Utah and Michigan, and their travels to Europe. Also contains family papers from Lenore Romney and church-related materials from callings that George Romney held throughout his life. Materials dated 1926-1998.
Dates:
1926-1998
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Clifton G. M. and Irene Pack Kerr family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8844
Scope and Contents
Includes photograph albums, scrapbooks, histories, books, and other materials detailing the lives of Clifton and Irene Kerr and their family, the announcement and construction of the London Temple, Clifton's political career, important events for the two including their birthdays and funerals, cassette tapes of important events in their family (including welcome home talks, farewells, and devotionals), etc. Materials dated approximately 1848-2000 with the bulk of the materials dated between...
Dates:
approximately 1851-2000; Majority of material found within 1970-2000
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David S. King papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1541
Scope and Contents
Consists of journals, correspondence, speeches, notes, news clippings, press releases, government documents, and photographs relating to King's personal life, church and missionary work, and political and diplomatic careers. Materials date from approximately 1937 to 1985.
Dates:
approximately 1937-1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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