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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

Alene B. Duerk memoir, approximately 2004

 File — Box 47: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 12; Series 16; Series 14; Series 18 [Barcode: 31197231005379], Folder: 15
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 14 Sub-Series 1 File 1047
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain the personal memoir of Alene B. Duerk relating her experiences as a nurse in the U.S. Navy during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Dated approximately 2004.

Dates: approximately 2004
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for multiple wars / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy Medical Corps

Alexander Neibaur biographical material, approximately 1917

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232535085]
Identifier: MSS 438
Dates: Publication: approximately 1917
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Neibaur family papers

Alfred H. Lloyd memoir, after 2000

 File — Carton 125: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 9; Series 10; Series 12; Series 13; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15 [Barcode: 31197239146332], Folder: 24
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

File contains memoir of Alfred H. Llody regarding his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Dated after 2000.

Dates: after 2000
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy

Alice Lofgren Andrus papers, 1993

 File — Box 44: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 11; Series 12; Series 14 [Barcode: 31197231005346], Folder: 17
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 1 File 983
Scope and Contents Materials contain three brief memoirs of Alice Lofgren Andrus' time in the U.S. Navy as a nurse. She describes her work in the burn and plastic surgery ward helping the injured men getting transferred to a hospital ship to help care for prisoner-of-war soldiers that had been released from Japanese prison camps. File also contains a brief history of the ship Andrus served on, the U.S.S. Consolation, taken from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. A few photographs are contained...
Dates: 1993
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy Medical Corps

Alice Louise Reynolds autobiographical notes, 1935-1938

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231038719], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 120 Series 1
Dates: 1935-1938
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Alice Louise Reynolds papers / Alice Louise Reynolds diaries and notes

Alice Schmidt memoir and photographs, 1944-2001

 File — Box 78: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 12; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15; Series 18 [Barcode: 31197233284964], Folder: 21
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 3 File 1617
Scope and Contents

Materials contain the personal memoir of Alice Schmidt. Relates her experiences graduating from the cadet nursing program at the end of World War II. Also summarizes her life after the war. File contains photocopied photographs of Schmidt. Dated 1944-2001.

Dates: 1944-2001
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Medical Corps

Alexander A. and Maria E. Allen autobiographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244433]
Identifier: MSS SC 549
Scope and Contents

Holograph autobiographies of Allen, an early settler and bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Weston, Idaho, and of his first wife, Maria.

Dates: 1910-1916
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Andrew Jackson Allen autobiography and diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330851]
Identifier: MSS SC 3213
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript of an autobiography and diary. Allen writes about his youth in Kentucky and move to Missouri after he joined the Mormon Church. He later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and joined the Mormon exodus to Utah in 1847. He tells about the hardships of early settlement in Salt Lake City, Utah. His diary starts in 1857. It has many gaps and entries were often months apart. He writes about the "Utah War;" his work on the railroad in 1868 and 1869; his...
Dates: 1857-1884
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Allen C. Christensen papers, 1940-2006

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 2 File 742
Scope and Contents

File includes materials relating to Allen C. Christensen's service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and time as a prisoner of war in the Philippines. There are transcripts and videocassettes of an interview with Christensen, various writings containing his war experiences, and a photocopy of a letter. There is also a Saints at War Information Sheet. Dates range 1940-2006.

Dates: 1940-2006
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / 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 Air Corps

Allen Frank Price memoir, after 1940

 File — Box 69: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 11; Series 14 [Barcode: 31197231013027], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 1429
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain the personal memoir titled "Allen Frank Price--Pacific Theater Sailor" written by Price. The memoir focuses on Price's service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Memoir contains photocopied: newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, and timelines. Dated after 1940.

Dates: after 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy

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