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Louisa May Alcott papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 503
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed correspondence of Louisa May Alcott and her sister, May Alcott Nieriker and various other family members and writers. The letters are of both a private and professional nature, and discuss social engagements, familial affairs, writing schedules, and upcoming publications. Also included are two portraits, a sound recording with transcript of a radio adaptation of "Little Women," the poem recording with transcript of a radio adaption of "Little Women," the poem "Lines to...
Dates:
1862-1888
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Annie Rolph Aldridge biographical papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 506
Scope and Contents
Typewritten life sketch from a Cardston newspaper, photograph of her family and family genealogical sheet.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Frank Aldridge biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2127
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a history of the Aldridge family. The history begins with Frank Aldridge's great-grandfather, Joseph Aldridge, relates the involvement of the Aldrideg family in the early history of the Mormon Church, and ends shortly after Frank's retirement in 1965. Aldridge also tells of his experiences in World War I.
Dates:
approximately 1979
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Coleman Allen biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 769
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of short typewritten biography. Crossed the plains to Utah with the pioneers as a child in 1847, settled with family in Mill Creek Canyon and, in 1851, in Draper. In 1876, called by Brigham Young to head the colonization of the Little Colorado River settlements in Arizona. Moved back to Draper in 1884.
Dates:
1843-1917
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George Alley papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 727
Abstract
Account and receipt books, family correspondence, diary of Stephen Webb Alley, genealogy, family history materials, and memorabilia of the George Alley family. Photographs include studio portraits of Lydia Ann Alley and Susan Hannah Alley Wells, polygamist wives of Mormon Church leader, Daniel H. Wells, and a portrait of George Alley's wife, Mary Symond Alley. A majority of the photos were taken by Salt Lake City photographer Charles R. Savage. The photographs are albumen and matte collodion...
Dates:
1834-1891
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Laura Ellen Alley autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2623
Scope and Contents
Typed autobiography. Laura Ellen Alley was born in 1923 in Bancroft, Idaho. She served as a nurse in the McCaw General Hospital in Walla Walla, Washington, at the end of World War II.
Dates:
2000
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David Hammond Allred letter
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 79
Scope and Contents
Letter dated January 24, 1976 and addressed to LeGrand Baker, an archivist at Brigham Young University. Allred writes about John Markland Jones, a convert to the Mormon Church who migrated to Utah and later to Los Angeles County, California.
Dates:
1976
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : Maregaret Hall Ruston Alston, came to Utah in 1850
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2512
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Maragaret Hall Rushton Alston was born in England. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated with her first husband, John Rushton, to the United States. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, and she arrived in Utah in 1850 and later settled in American Fork. She caught cold and died.
Dates:
1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
The American ancestry of Joseph Robison and his wife Lucretia Hancock
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1709
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of an unbound biography and two brief typed biographies of Joseph and Lucretia Robison, converts to the Mormon Church from New York state who settled in Utah. The large biography contains extensive genealogies of different related families.
Dates:
1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
America's call to arms print
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1142
Scope and Contents
Printed speech presented before a joint session of congress on April 2, 1917 asking for a declaration of war against Germany. The item was written by Konrad Kail and is called "America's call to Arms." Kail used dark and light pen strokes in writing the speech which make a profile portrait of Wilson.
Dates:
1917
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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