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City and Town Life

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 527 Collections and/or Records:

Vesta Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1659
Scope and Contents Contains papers relating to American Mothers Inc., the Young Women program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Washington, D.C. Stake of the Church, the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, and other topics in which Smith took part. Includes an autobiography, journals, files, correspondence, photographs, financial papers, programs, newsletters, handbooks, and membership lists, genealogical papers, reports, scrapbooks, family histories, and ephemera. Materials...
Dates: approximately 1941-1999

Erastus Fairbanks Snow statement

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322650]
Identifier: MSS SC 2600
Scope and Contents

Handwritten statement dated 9 April 1872. Snow claims that he is the owner of eight lots of land in St. George, Utah.

Dates: 1872 April 9

John F. Snow bond

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244011]
Identifier: MSS SC 618
Scope and Contents

Holograph. A bond of John F. and Elizabeth Snow to Hiram Hill concerning the sale of a tract of land to Hill. Includes receipt of $75 received of Hill.

Dates: 1828

Lorenzo Snow letters

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233287710]
Identifier: Vault MSS 236
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letters addressed to Franklin S. Richards. The items are dated 20 June 1877, 2 Dec. 1885, and 12 Feb. 1886. In 1877 Snow writes to Richards, who was "five thousand miles" away, with a birthday greeting. Snow also writes about his trial for polygamy.

Dates: 1877-1886

Souvenir, Homecoming Week, Huntsville, Utah

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237072]
Identifier: MSS SC 271
Scope and Contents

Printed booklet which contains programs for each day's activities, patriotic messages, brief history of Huntsville, a list of former townsmen, and advertisements.

Dates: 1917

Spanish Fork Theatrical and Building Association memento

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232579646]
Identifier: MSS 8994
Scope and Contents

Collection contains handwritten manuscripts describing the proposal to build a theater in Spanish Fork, Utah, including a call for subscriptions; a list of the subscribers and amounts pledged; a description of the lot acquired; and that this "memento" and a copy of a Tullidge's Magazine article of Spanish Fork were going to be placed in the cornerstone of the building, dated July 19, 1884. Also includes typed transcript of manuscript.

Dates: 1884 July 19

Speech by Governor George H. Dern at Jefferson Day Banquet, Provo, Utah

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233274957]
Identifier: UA SC 35

Speech on honesty

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318914]
Identifier: MSS SC 2089
Scope and Contents

Handwritten speech outlining problems young people have with honesty.

Dates: approximately 1900

Owen H. Spencer memoranda

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327642]
Identifier: MSS SC 2839
Scope and Contents

Handwritten "Memorandum Book." Spencer copies articles from newspapers, writes about various cures for diseases, and mentions some occurrences in the area where he lived.

Dates: 1888-1904

John Paternoster Squires diary excerpts

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345693]
Identifier: MSS 976
Scope and Contents Photocopies of typescripts of diary excerpts, a biographical sketch, and family genealogies. There are many gaps in the diary. Squires writes about his early life, joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1847, and migrating to Utah in 1853. He also discusses his polygamous marriages; his mission to England; his life in Salt Lake City, Utah; his attempts to avoid being arrested by federal officials for polygamy; his trial for unlawful cohabitation; and his subsequent...
Dates: 1848-1900