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Utah -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 221 Collections and/or Records:

Laray M. and Blanche McBeth Hansen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6686
Abstract

The Laray M. and Blanche McBeth Hansen Papers are items collected from Laray's mission in Germany sent to Blanche McBeth in Payson, Utah, and early years in their marriage.

Dates: 1921-1925

Life history of Martin Hansen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230333038]
Identifier: MSS SC 3307
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Hansen migrated to Utah in 1857 by handcart. He also wrote about the problems of hunger and finding food from 1857 to 1859 when he was in Utah. He settled in American Fork, Utah.

Dates: 1930

Ianthe Matheson Harper diary

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231037828]
Identifier: MSS 6289
Abstract

The Ianthe Matheson Harper diary is a photocopy of her diary that begins with remembrance of her childhood and continues with sporadic daily entries from 1936 to 1978.

Dates: 1933-1978

The history of Mormon mercantile cooperation in Utah

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2673
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of a typed PhD dissertation in economics at the University of California. The campus of the University of California is not specified. The item relates the history of the the Mormon Mercantile Cooperation in Utah.

Dates: 1935

Horace K. and Helen Mar Whitney papers, 1847-1866

 Sub-Series — Box 4: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231038420], Folder: 10, item: 1-7
Identifier: MSS 15 Series 3 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Materials include keepsakes, letters, and poems collected by Horace K. Whitney and Helen Mar Kimball. Includes cards and a woven envelope that were made by or given to Helen. There is also a letter from Helen to Horace. Materials also include an envelope that belonged to Louisa Beaman, the first plural wife sealed to Joseph Smith. Dated 1847-1866.

Dates: 1847-1866

Oliver Boardman Huntington autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230321108]
Identifier: MSS SC 2219
Scope and Contents

Handwritten unsigned, autobiographical account believed to have been written by Huntington. The author writes of being called by Brigham Young and Daniel H. Wells to go with an expedition to Carson Valley and tell the Mormons there to return to Utah to meet the United States army, known as "Johnston's Army" in 1857. Huntington gives and account of this expedition and mentions those who participated in it.

Dates: approximately 1880

Ideal National Insurance Company legal files, 1948-1977

 Series
Identifier: MSS 4028
Scope and Contents

This series includes the legal files of the Ideal National Insurance Company (1948-1977), detailing administrative operations (meeting minutes, stock holdings and accounts, etc.) and correspondence, merger and claims materials, and dealings with other insurance companies, Ed Wheelock, Wallace Bennett, etc. It also includes legal research and court documentation. The Ideal National Insurance Company was based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1948-1977

International Women's Year Oral History Project case files, 2003-2004

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 7752 Series 39 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Includes contracts, contact information, and biographical information for the participants, as well as the original audio recordings of the oral history interviews conducted by the International Women's Year Oral History Project, 2003-2004.

Dates: 2003-2004

International Women's Year Oral History Project transcripts, 2003-2004

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 7752 Series 39 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains transcripts of recorded interviews done with participants in the International Women's Year Oral History Project, as well as background information about those participants, 2003-2004.

Dates: 2003-2004

International Women's Year Oral History Project transcripts and case files, 2003-2004

 Series
Identifier: MSS 7752 Series 39
Scope and Contents

Includes contracts from and contact information for participants in the International Women's Year Oral History Project, as well as the original audio recordings of the oral history interviews, and transcripts for those interviews, 2003-2004.

Dates: 2003-2004