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Provo (Utah)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 594 Collections and/or Records:

Janet Jenson collection on Franklin Stewart Harris

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233266086]
Identifier: UA 1106
Scope and Contents Materials include information, papers, and artifacts gathered Janet Jenson in the course of writing a biography of her grandfather Franklin S. Harris. The materials include articles by or about Franklin S. Harris, Franklin S. Harris' testimony in the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians vs. the United States, some business records of Franklin S. Harris, newspaper clippings about Franklin S. Harris, correspondence of Franklin S. and Estelle S. Harris, certificates of Franklin S. and Estelle S....
Dates: 1847-2002
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

John King and unidentified man, 2016 July 15

 Item
Identifier: MSS 8845 Series 8 Sub-Series Sub- 2 Item p00i Item p002
Dates: Digitized: 2016 July 15
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Harold B. Lee Library History in Your Attic collection / Boulder, Utah, scanning event / Cox family photographs / Blue photograph album

John R. Christiansen papers, 1941-1995

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4116 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains materials created by John R. Christiansen as well as other materials he used in research or collected for his work as a sociologist. Includes Books, research papers, manuals, worksheets, talks, bulletins, dissertations, annual reports, photographs, correspondence, and other publications. Many of the materials are related to civil defense and nuclear war survival. Some other topics of the papers include farming, statistics from Kentucky and central Utah, and emergency preparation.

Dates: 1941-1995
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John R. Christiansen family papers

Albert Jones journals and correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2427
Scope and Contents

Collection contains journals, correspondence, and an address prepared by Albert Jones. The journals document Jones's service driving Church teams, as well as his life in Provo, Utah. Materials date from between 1862 and 1925.

Dates: 1862-1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Albert Jones prison journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236470]
Identifier: MSS SC 228
Scope and Contents

Holograph diary which includes minutes and business records of the Provo City Corporation, lists of other people convicted and sentenced, poems of prisoners, news articles written by Jones on prison activities, and letters he received from family and friends during his period of imprisonment.

Dates: 1888
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Albert Stephen Jones papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 350
Scope and Contents Contains diaries and photographs, including twenty stereographs, documenting Jones's experience as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Samoa and Tonga from 1893 to 1896. The diaries detail his daily activities and talk about the nature of his work. Jones continued to write in these diaries after his return to Provo, Utah until 1902. The collections also contains a handwritten Tongan-English dictionary copied by Jones and a 1895 article on Tongan cannibalism...
Dates: 1893-1902
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Elisha Jones papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2870
Scope and Contents Includes diary, notebook, and lecture report. Diary begins with ten-page reminiscence, 1858. Sporadic diary entries are dated 1858-1879. Notes, some dating as late as 1885 (after Elisha's death), interspersed throughout volume. Volume also includes two pages of minutes to a high priest's quorum meeting, 23 October 1860, presumably held in Sanpete County; and several pages listing family names. Notebook, without covers, contains financial entries dated about 1872-1880. Last item is a...
Dates: 1858-1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Josette B. Ashford personal papers, 1920-1999

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6137 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains personal scrapbooks including photographs, postcards, clippings from magazines and newspapers and correspondence from the early 1920s until about 1999. The bulk of this scrapbook details her travels, mainly to Europe and the Middle East. Also included is an autobiography of Josette B. Ashford.

Dates: 1920-1999
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Josette B. Ashford papers

Josette B. Ashford professional papers, 1951-1990

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6137 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains course materials as a professor of French and Italian at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Also included are linguistics research and publications, handouts, articles, news clippings, poetry, and literary/linguistic analysis note card files, covering the years 1951-1999.

Dates: 1951-1990
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Josette B. Ashford papers

Joseph B. Keeler family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2016
Scope and Contents

Includes journals, biographical sketches, correspondence, articles, lesson manuals, published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera. The bulk of the material was created by Joseph B. Keeler's descendants, who used his papers as they compiled their published family history, "Build Thee More Stately" (1989). The collection focuses on family history, religion, education, and professional organizations.

Dates: approximately 1840-1990
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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