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Testimonies

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Solemn declarations, written or verbal; usually made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer or authorized public official, then reduced to writing for the record.

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Air Corps Medical Corps, 1943-2003

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Subseries contains materials from two women who served in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Zelta Walker's file contains her history, letters, and photographs, and Rayola Andersen's file contains the transcript of an interview. The materials detail these women's experiences as U.S. Army Air Corps nurses during World War II. Dated 1943-2003.

Dates: 1943-2003
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II / Saints at War Project records for the United States Medical Corps

Saints at War Project records for the United States Medical Corps, 1941-2004

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents Subseries contains memoirs, interviews, articles, correspondence such as letters and emails, photographs, accounts, newspapers, military records, pamphlets, clippings, books, diary excerpts, and histories from Latter-Day Saint veterans, mainly female nurses, who served during World War II. While most of the female veterans served in either the Navy Medical Corps, Army Medical Corps, or Army Air Corps, some also served in the Cadet Nurse Corps, and one served in the Red Cross. One of the men...
Dates: 1941-2004
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II

Saints at War Project records for World War II, 1924-2012

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5
Scope and Contents Series contains artifacts, military records, photographs, biographies, memoirs, transcripts and audiocassettes of interviews, accounts, poetry, a sermon, negatives, cartoons, articles, diaries and journals, books, responses to the Saints at War Questionnaire and Latter-day Saints in the Military Survey, clippings, autobiographies, telegrams, histories, including family histories, personal histories, and military histories, a drawing of the USS Pennsylvania, e-mails, floppy disks, a map...
Dates: 1924-2012
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records

Rosel Ruesch Seastrand testimony

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239135160]
Identifier: MSS SC 1104
Scope and Contents

Contains a testimony written by Rosel Ruesch Seastrand of the North Las Vegas, Nevada, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stake. She shares how her testimony of the power of prayer was strengthened through her heart surgery, which was performed by Russell M. Nelson in Salt Lake City around 1978. Materials dated approximately 1978.

Dates: approximately 1978
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Rosel Ruesch Seastrand testimony

Testimonies of plural marriage

 File — Carton 10: [Barcode: 31197231194165]
Identifier: MSS 1839
Dates: 1828-1977
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1839, Ernest D. Strack papers

Testimony in the case of the Territory of Wyoming vs. George Parrott.

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309285]
Identifier: MSS SC 1193
Scope and Contents

Photocopied typescript of testimony given in a murder and train robbery trial against George Parrott.

Dates: 1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Testimony in the case of the Territory of Wyoming vs. George Parrott.

Testimony of eight witnesses

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324979]
Identifier: MSS SC 2560
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a handwritten statement which is published at the beginning of the Book of Mormon. The item was signed by the "Eight Witnesses" who confirmed that they saw the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was taken. The manuscript states that Joseph Smith was the "author" of the book. This word appeared in the first edition of the Book of Mormon. In later editions, the term was changed to "translator."

Dates: 1830
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Testimony of eight witnesses

Testimony of Gail S. Halvorsen and Alta Halvorsen, 1989

 Item — Box 69: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197239238808], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 2220 Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Dates: 1989
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2220, Gail S. Halvorsen papers / Gail S. Halvorsen papers, audio-visual recordings, and artifacts / Gail S. Halvorsen personal and family papers

Testimony of Margaret West

 File — Carton 12: [Barcode: 31197231194140]
Identifier: MSS 1839
Dates: 1828-1977
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1839, Ernest D. Strack papers

Testimony of Martin Harris, witness of the Book of Mormon

 File — Carton 11: [Barcode: 31197231194157]
Identifier: MSS 1839
Dates: 1828-1977
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1839, Ernest D. Strack papers

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