City and Town Life
Found in 525 Collections and/or Records:
Plenty of people strive to become people of plenty : salient features of the race between population and the food supply in Brazil in the 1970's
Typewritten article prepared for the 1972 World Congress on Rural Socilogy. Smith describes the problems with food production and population growth in Brazil. The item was later published in Smith's "Brazilian Society" in 1975.
Postcards of Salt Lake City and Nauvoo, Illinois, historic sites
Four color postcards of historic sites in Salt Lakes City, Utah, and Nauvoo, Illinois, related to early Latter-day Saint Church and Utah history. Postcards depict a compilation of images of the Joseph Smith Homestead, Mansion House, and the Nauvoo House; an artistic rendering of the Nauvoo Temple; the Lion House in Salt Lake City; and the Salt Lake Theater. The postcards were collected by Larry Faria. Dated approximately 1920s to 1940s.
Preliminary draft of the Sept. 24, 1845 broadside on the Mormons leaving Nauvoo
Photocopy of a handwritten manuscript addressed to a Qunicy citizens' committee and written by a council of the Mormon Church at the home of John Taylor. The writers asked that there be a cessation of hostile acts against the Mormons, including the burning of their homes, and expressed the intent of the majority of them to leave the area in the spring of 1846.
Proclamations
Handwritten statement and printed proclamation both in Spanish. The items relate to the banishment of a man from Mexico and certain measures to be taken against criminals in the mountains. The handwritten item has the date 1604 written in the margin. The printed document has no date.
Proeve over de zamenstellig eener algemeene Nederlandsche geschiedenis naar aanleiding van 's konings besluit van den 23sten Dec.
This manuscript is an outline history of the Netherlands roughly from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It was commissioned by a decree of the king of the Netherlands on December 23, 1826 and completed in 1830.
Program for the 4th of July 1904
Photocopy of a handwritten program for the Fourth of July celebration probably in Huntington, Utah.
Theodore Hunt promissory note
Handwritten and signed letter, dated 23 Dec. 1818, promissing to pay Henry von Phul $456.98 on 1 May of the following year.
Thomas Hempstead promissory note
Handwritten and signed promissory note, dated 8 Oct. 1821, and composed in St. Louis, Missouri. In the name of the Missouri Fur Company, Hempstead agrees to pay David Stone $18,834.62 by 1 June 1822.
Theodore Hunt promissory note
Handwritten and signed promissory note dated 21 April 1819. Hunt agrees to pay William Easdal $130.37 and 1/2 cent for vegetables.
Pierre Chouteau promissory note
Handwritten and signed promissory note, dated 21 March 1825, and composed in St. Louis, Missouri. Chouteau agrees to pay Pierre Duchouquet the $1000 Duchouquet had loaned him.