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Salt Lake City (Utah)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

Edmunds automobile photographs

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233620100]
Identifier: MSS P 757
Scope and Contents

Edmunds automobile photographs, 1910-1940 collection contains 23 photographs of car dealerships and automobiles taken in part by Sainsbury and Siddoway- Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1910-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Edmunds automobile photographs

Esaias Edwards autobiography and diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 184
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography and diary. The account is retrospective until 1856. Edwards writes extensively about his conversion to the Mormon Church in 1839, life at Nauvoo, Illinois, and the death of two of his wives. There is a lengthy discussion in the opening pages of the diary about astronomy and a family cooperative city, "Edwardsville," which he hoped to build. Edwards made the overland journey from Iowa to Salt Lake City in 1848 by ox team and writes briefly about the scarcity of feed...
Dates: 1856-1882
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Esaias Edwards autobiography and diary

Robert Ellison Western photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 115
Scope and Contents Collection includes two hundred and thirty photographs, including oversize images, one tintype, and a Brady photograph, with images of the oil industry and oil fields, landscapes of the West, G. A. Custer, and Ellison family and friends; stereographs of Indian wars, Wyoming; various western personalities and places; and postcards. Also includes four photographs and a postcard of Edward Copely and family. Also a picture of the printing shop at the "Old Nez Pierce Mission", and a postcard of...
Dates: approximately 1880-1949
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Robert Ellison Western photographs

Emily M. Carlisle educational papers, 1907-1955

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 6
Scope and Contents note

Series contains youths' writings, school papers, and programs belonging to Emily M. Carlisle from 1907 to 1955.

Dates: Other: 1907-1955
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2337, Emily M. Carlisle papers

Emily M. Carlisle family correspondence, 1891-1976

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 1
Scope and Contents note

Contains family correspondence from 1891 to 1976 detailing various activities and news.

Dates: Other: 1891-1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2337, Emily M. Carlisle papers

Emily M. Carlisle genealogy and family history, 1879-1984

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2
Scope and Contents note

Series contains biographies, genealogical records, obituaries, and diaries associated with Emily M. Carlisle and her family history from 1879 to 1984.

Dates: Other: 1879-1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2337, Emily M. Carlisle papers

Emily M. Carlisle political and financial papers, 1892-1970

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 7
Scope and Contents note

Series contains government publications, constitutions, judgments and various papers relating to Utah's irrigation, various court arguments, and Carlisle financial information from 1892 to 1970.

Dates: Other: 1892-1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2337, Emily M. Carlisle papers

Evans family photographs

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233615613]
Identifier: MSS P 625
Scope and Contents

Evans family photographs, circa 1860-1909 collection contains 2 photographs of a family and a woman.

Dates: approximately 1860-1909
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Evans family photographs

John A. Evans papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1500
Scope and Contents

John A. Evans papers contains personal and Desert News Company papers.

Dates: 1857-1922
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John A. Evans papers

G. Robert Ruff letters, 1943 March-August

 Series — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239126771], Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 9407 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains letters written by G. Robert Ruff to his family during his time in the United States Army in 1943, first at Fort Douglas and then at Maxwell Field to train as a pilot in the Army Air Force. His letters discuss matters of home, personal philosophies, demanding army life, and make particular mention of his younger brother Jean and his girlfriend Betty. Dated March 8, 1943 to August 7, 1943.

Dates: 1943 March-August
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9407, G. Robert Ruff papers

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