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Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

Utah Trade Unions papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 377
Abstract

Minutes, constitutions, and correspondence of various Utah trade unions.

Dates: 1890-1957

John Van Cott papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230217678]
Identifier: MSS 1743
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, and a family history. The correspondence is between Van Cott and family members. Also included are handwritten and signed letters from Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church, to Van Cott. The diaries cover the time when Van Cott served as a missionary for the Mormon Church from 1852 to 1856 and from 1859 to 1862. He was in Iowa City, Iowa, when the first handcart companies left for Utah.

Dates: 1838-1913

Joseph Robinson Walker account books

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231041820]
Identifier: MSS 228
Scope and Contents

Handwritten entries in account books. The items document the financial transactions of the Walker Brothers in Carson City, Nevada and in Camp Floyd and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1860-1862

Nelson Wheeler Whipple diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233444]
Identifier: MSS SC 38
Scope and Contents

Two different typescripts of the same diary kept by Whipple: one prepared by Phyllis Clayton Pettit, the other by Anor Whipple. The diary gives genealogical data about Nelson Whipple's ancestors and tells of his early experiences in the Latter-day Saint Church, his move to Nauvoo, Illinois, his journey across the Plains to Utah and his life there.

Dates: 1863-1867

John Mills Whitaker diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 293
Scope and Contents Photocopies of typewritten transcripts of a handwritten journal. The items were originally kept in Pitman shorthand. The entries are extensive and detailed. Whitaker was raised in Centerville, Utah but lived much of his adult life in Salt Lake City, Utah. Whitaker details his life and activities and makes observations on Utah society, the Mormon Church, and state and national politics. He had numerous callings in the Mormon Church and served as a missionary for that faith in the...
Dates: 1883-1949

Clarissa Harden Wilhelm autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489333]
Identifier: MSS 546
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Wilhelm writes about her youth in New York, her joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1838, her move to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, and her subsequent migration to Utah. She also tells about her various marriages and her life in Salt Lake City, Spanish Fork, Springville, St. George, and Orderville, Utah. She also talks of living in St. Joseph, Arizona.

Dates: 1888

Will W. Bowman biographical papers, 1922-1973

 Series
Identifier: MSS 88 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains Bowman's biographical papers, including memorabilia, certificates, letters, scrapbooks, and other materials. Materials relate to his education and training, as well as family history, and date from between 1922 and 1973.

Dates: 1922-1973

Will W. Bowman collection of Utah Power & Light Company records, 1949-1965

 Series
Identifier: MSS 88 Series 6
Scope and Contents

Contains articles, reports, and other materials from Utah Power & Light Company collected by Bowman while he was the Publicity Director for the company, 1949-1965.

Dates: 1949-1965

Will W. Bowman papers on the Ogden Standard-Examiner, 1935

 Series
Identifier: MSS 88 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains a personal diary, as well as newspaper clippings collected by Bowman during his work at the Ogden Standard-Examiner, 1935.

Dates: 1935

S. A. Wixom letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340108]
Identifier: MSS 85
Abstract

The folder contains a handwritten letter dated 25 August 1883 and addressed to "Prest. McAllister & Brethren." Wixom describes the murder of a police officer in Salt Lake City, "Capt. Bent," by a "mulatto," who had refused to pay a restaurant bill, and the subsequent lynching of the man by a mob.

Dates: 1883 August 25