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Polygamy -- Utah -- History -- 19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Lydia G. Knight genealogical records and correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231567105]
Identifier: MSS 17
Scope and Contents Handwritten genealogical records and 32 miscellaneous items, mostly letters. Also included are photocopies, typescripts, and three microfilm reels of the originals. The correspondence is between Lydia and her family members in the New Albion area of New York state. They relate family matters and include Lydia's testimony of polygamy. Also included are several pages of a journal giving an account of an unnamed person on a mission in 1836 for the Mormon Church to work on the temple in...
Dates: 1833-1883
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Scrapbook on Utah polygamy

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232593159]
Identifier: MSS 8802
Scope and Contents

Contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and ephemera from the 1880s related to the issue of polygamy in Utah. Most of the clippings are related to the view of polygamy in politics of the time. Includes reports in both local Utah and national papers. Also includes some ephemera, including a document from the Utah Republican Territorial Convention signed by William McKay, chairman. Scrapbook is dated 1882-1884.

Dates: 1882-1884
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Story of the underground

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329978]
Identifier: MSS SC 3054
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten account of a time when Wilford Woodruff, later president of the Mormon Church, was avoiding federal marshals in St. George, Utah. The date of the composition of the item is uncertain.

Dates: 1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Utah territorial penitentiary photographs

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233607610]
Identifier: MSS P 365
Abstract

One folder containing thirty-seven photographic prints from the Utah territorial penitentiary from the 1880s and 1890s, including prisoners incarcerated for practicing polygamy.

Dates: approximately 1880-1899
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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