Artifacts

Jerusha Barden Smith collection

Collection — Oversize 1: [Barcode: 31197233633152]

Identifier: MSS 5890

Abstract

Beaded purse handmade by Jerusha Barden Smith (wife of Hyrum Smith, d. 1837) and multigenerational photo of its owners.

Dates: approximately 1837-1934

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Julina L. Smith collection of photographs and papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 8685

Scope and Contents

Materials include photographs of family, Latter-day Saint Church leadership, and landscapes that belonged to Joseph F. and Julina Lambson Smith and their family. Also includes some family papers and artifacts. Materials dated approximately 1840-1920.

Dates: approximately 1840-1920

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oliver R. Smith papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2087

Abstract Includes correspondence, family newsletters and news clippings, university memoranda, photographs, artifacts, and a few Hill Cumorah Pageant files. Subject files contain information on BYU student clubs, including Delta Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Omega Nu, and Sigma Delta Chi, and information on organizations with which he was affiliated, such as the US Air Force Reserve, Association of Educators of Journalism, Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, National Council of College Publications...

Dates: 1935-1979

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Eliza R. Snow wooden box and spoon

Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239244434]

Identifier: MSS 9052

Content Description

Contains a round wooden box that belonged to Eliza R. Snow. It was donated to the BYU President's Office in 1973 by H. R. Wilson of Santa Rosa, California. According to description by donor, the box belonged to Eliza R. Snow and was used when going to Utah in early 1846-1847. The box includes a wooden spoon that supposedly came with the box.

Dates: approximately 1846-1847

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Grace Soelberg papers on the Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 9652

Scope and Contents Collection contains materials collected by Grace Ann Soelberg as part of her participation in the Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana, including trip itineraries, printed email correspondence, handouts, and guidelines. It also includes two publications, "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870" by W.E.B. Du Bois, and "A Smart Ghana Repatriation Guide" by Diallo Sumbry. Also contains artifacts Grace obtained in Ghana, including two kente...

Dates: 2022

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Spanish and Maya sites, approximately 1920-1935

Sub-Series

Identifier: MSS 1587 Series 3 Sub-Series 2

Scope and Contents The subseries includes photographs of Maya artifacts and sculpture. Artifacts includes polychrome and heiroglyphic vases, plates, and bowls, stone tools and lithics, stone and ceramic stulpture, obsidian blades, pottery shards, jewelry pieces, pieces from stone architecture, conch shell with heiroglyphics, and other archaeological artifacts. Artifacts came from several sources including private collections, museums, and excavations. Topics of artifacts include animals, geometric and faunal...

Dates: approximately 1920-1935

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Rhoads and Morley families papers / Rhoads and Morley families photographs / Sylvanus G. Morley photographs

Spencer Richardson sacrament tray, 2020

Item — Carton 2: Series 4 [Barcode: 31197239124065]

Identifier: FA 45 Series 4 Sub-Series 2 Item 2

Scope and Contents

Small plastic sacrament trays for bread and water, including sacrament cups made from the same plastic, purchased from Simply Celestial Designs in Hurricane, Utah, and sold through Etsy.com.

Dates: 2020