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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2081 Collections and/or Records:

Vernon Gurnsey Liston autobiography, approximately 1945

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235220115]
Identifier: MSS 6096
Scope and Contents

Materials include a forty-page holograph autobiography in which Vernon Gurnsey Liston documents his experiences in Western Europe during the Second World War, including a detailed account of the Normandy landing, fighting in the hedgerows, subsequent combat operations, wounds received, and hospitalization. Dated approximately 1945.

Dates: approximately 1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 6096, Vernon Gurnsey Liston autobiography, scrapbook, and other materials

Vernon Gurnsey Liston autobiography, approximately 1945

 File — Folder 2: [Barcode: 31197235220123]
Identifier: MSS 6096
Dates: approximately 1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 6096, Vernon Gurnsey Liston autobiography, scrapbook, and other materials

Vernon Rasmussen papers, 2000-2001, 1943-1945

 File — Box 70: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 11; Series 12; Series 14 [Barcode: 31197231238061], Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 2 File 1431
Scope and Contents note Materials contains papers regarding Vernon Lewis Rasmussen's service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Includes photocopied photographs of Vernon Lewis Rasmussen. File also contains photocopied general orders of medals, commendations, and a record of his operational sorties that Rasmussen received or accomplished during his service. Includes the photocopy of a telegram sent to Rasmussen's parents when he was wounded in action. Dates 1943-1945. Contains Rasmussen's personal...
Dates: 2000-2001; 1943-1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Europe) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Air Corps

Verr Dee Leavitt papers, 1944-1946, approximately 1980-2001

 File — Box 7: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7 [Barcode: 31197231005452], Folder: 24-25
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 202
Scope and Contents note Materials contain a memoir of Verr Dee Leavitt's regarding his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Discusses his training and combat experiences in Europe. Includes two maps: one showing the location of his U.S. training bases and the other showing his areas of combat in Europe. Contains a hand-written note explaining the enclosed pictures with respective negatives and the nature of the LDS servicemen's conferences. Also contains a photocopied encyclopedia article on the history of...
Dates: 1944-1946; approximately 1980-2001
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Europe) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Infantry

Virgil Francis Livingston papers, 2002, approximately 1942

 File — Box 50: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 12; Series 14 [Barcode: 31197231012839], Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 2 File 1081
Scope and Contents note Materials contain papers regarding Virgil Francis Livingston's service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Contains photocopied photographs of Livingston in uniform and after the war. Also contains a brief memoir of Livingston's World War II experiences. Included are two vinyl records in which one is a recording of Livingston relating to his family his experiences and the other is of his brother, Acel, to his wife. Contains photocopied photographs of the Livingston brothers...
Dates: 2002; approximately 1942
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Europe) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Air Corps

Virginia Ruth Geisler Snarr collection of Lloyd Dee Snarr papers, 1944-2005

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9189 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Material from the mission and life of Lloyd Dee Snarr, including family mementos, photographs and slides, autobiographies, family histories and certificates from school and church. Includes an LDS Primary bandelo. Materials dated 1944 to 2005.

Dates: 1944-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9189, Virginia Ruth Geisler Snarr family history collection

Voices from the past, voices from the past : diaries, journals, and autobiographies, 1980

 File — Carton 18: Series 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 6154 Series 2 Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents

Book, Voices from the Past: Diaries, Journals, and Autobiographies

Dates: Other: 1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 6154, Donald Q. Cannon faculty and family papers / Donald Q. Cannon research / Donald Q. Cannon research for Voices from the Past

Joseph Robinson Walker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1783
Scope and Contents

Account books, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a reminiscence of Walker's participation in the Walker War against the Ute Indians in 1853, certificates, legislative acts passed by the Utah Legislature, and minutes of meetings. The materials deal largely with the Walker banking, mining, and business interests in Utah. The correspondence are to and from family members and deal largely with family and business matters.

Dates: 1837-1901
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Joseph Robinson Walker papers

Wallace and Eugene Trottier papers, 1947 August 22, 2005

 File — Box 103: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 12; Series 15; Series 17 [Barcode: 31197233285243], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 File 1789
Scope and Contents

Materials include memoirs and letter describing the service of Wallace and Eugene Trottier in the U.S. Army during World War II. The memoirs discuss the brother’s service in the Pacific, their visits to each other, and their safe return to the U.S. Dated August 22, 1947 and 2005.

Dates: 1947 August 22; 2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army

Wallace Bruce memoir, 2000 July 13

 File — Box 10: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005486], Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 254
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain memoir recounting experiences during the military training and service of Wallace Bruce during World War II. Dated July 13, 2000.

Dates: 2000 July 13
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Europe) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Infantry

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