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Thomas Stuart Ferguson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1549
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, article and book drafts, minutes of the NWAF meetings, and financial records of Ferguson's trips to Central America. Most of these materials relate to his interests in Mesoamerican archaeology and how that discipline improves Mormon understanding of the Book of Mormon. The collection also has information relating to the views of Mormon archaeologists.
Dates:
1936-1970
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Franklin Folsom papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1777
Scope and Contents
Research notes, photocopies of drawings and photographs, a script, articles, correspondence, and archaeological site reports. The materials relate to Folsom's research on Indians of North America including antiquities and arrow heads, primarily in the American Southwest.
Dates:
1939-1979
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Asa Solomon Kienke diaries and other material
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: UA 88
Scope and Contents
Contains two journals of Keinke's mission to Illinois and Indiana for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1896 and 1898, seven journals kept as a member of the Brigham Young Academy South American Expedition of 1900-1902, and archaelogical and miscellaneous papers. Also includes a bound typescript of the expedition journals.
Dates:
1896-1902
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George Haven Putnam letter
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 912
Scope and Contents
Typewritten letter dated March 17, 1894 and addressed to Charles H. S. Davis of Meriden, Connecticut. Davis was an Egyptologist. Putnam thanks Davis for the information he has provided that would be helpful in publishing "The Book of the Dead." Also included is a handwritten and undated letter in French from a "professor Rigal" to Paul Pierret, a French Egyptologist, asking permission to quote from Pierret's book.
Dates:
1894
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Max H. Russell mission papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6202
Abstract
The collection consists of two folders from the mission of Max. H. Russell from 1932-1934. It contains correspondence, photographs, booklets, as well as a transcribed interview with Max H. Russell. Most of the documents are regarding the use of the Book of Mormon tour using a film strip showing archaeological sites at ancienct ruins to spark interest in the church.
Dates:
1933-1936
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John L. Sorenson correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2836
Scope and Contents
Typewritten and handwritten correspondence. The materials are to and from various archaeologists at numerous universities and colleges in the United States. Sorenson corresponds about issues relating to the Indians of South and Central America and the archaeolgy of those regions.
Dates:
1953-1975
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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