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Legal instruments

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 601 Collections and/or Records:

Sfondrati family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 520
Scope and Contents

Contains depositions, legal opinions, letters, and other materials from the Sfondrati family. Much of the materials deal with the inheritance of lands from Isabella di Capua, of the Cybo-Malaspina family of Massa.

Dates: 1501-1665

Sfondrati family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 523
Scope and Contents

Contains handwritten documents on parchment related to members of the Sfondrati family. These materials concern personal as well as political and Church matters in Cremona and Mantua, Italy, and other parts of the region.

Dates: 1478-1593

Sfondrati family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 524
Scope and Contents

Contains legal documents, land records, and family papers related to the Sfondrati and associated families in northern Italy. The papers primarily deal with the heraldry and land holdings of the family in the region. Notes and other materials by later researchers in the collection are also included. The materials date from between 1494 and approximately 1900.

Dates: approximately 1494-1900

Sfondrati family papers regarding Guadalcanal

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 516
Scope and Contents

Contains handwritten and printed items relating to the administration of the fiefdom of Guadalcanal. Includes information on the assignment of the area to Ercole Sfondrati, as well as its later administration. The materials also document the conflict between Sfondrati and Gaspar Alfonso Perez de Guzman over its control. Documents date from between 1599 and 1659.

Dates: 1599-1659

O. C. Skinner bill of exception

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244839]
Identifier: MSS SC 678
Scope and Contents

Holograph. A bill of exception to a court decision involving property once belonging to Emma Smith in the case of Isaac S. Sanders and Evert L. Gates vs. William Smith.

Dates: 1851

Hyrum Gibbs Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 804
Scope and Contents

Contains documents relating to the life of Hyrum Gibbs Smith. Materials discuss his role as the fifth Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during 1912-1932, his education as a dentist during 1909-1910, and his personal life. Included are diaries, correspondence, realia, legal documents, and photographs. Materials were created in Salt Lake City, Utah and at the University of Southern California. Dated 1902-1976.

Dates: 1902-1976

John L. Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 680
Scope and Contents Contains seven journals of John Lyman Smith, and other autobiographical manuscripts, as wells as a bound typescript volume of an autobiography/journal. The journals include accounts of persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, pioneering in Utah, Lyman's two missions to Europe, and his service as president of the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Italian-German missions. There is also a contemporary account of the cricket-and-seagull episode in Salt Lake in 1848, Lyman's service as a member of...
Dates: 1792-1950; Majority of material found within 1846-1900

Spanish Diggings map, 1935

 Item — Oversize 10: Series 9 [Barcode: 31197232509767], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 782 Series 9
Scope and Contents

Plat showing "Spanish Diggings" / Wyoming State Planning Board. Cheyenne : The Board, 1935. 1 map ; 50 x 37 cm. Area shown near Guernsey, Wyo.

Dates: 1935

Bertel M. Sparks papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7567
Scope and Contents

Bertel M. Sparks papers consists of correspondence, financial papers, law school papers, and various other materials. The collection covers the majority of Sparks's professional career beginning in his mid thirties. Also included within the collection are materials belonging to his wife, Martha Evans Sparks. The collection dates 1952-1996.

Dates: 1952-1996

Will of Charles Christopher Springer

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239135178]
Identifier: MSS SC 1509
Scope and Contents

Contains a photocopied transcription from "American Families: Genealogical and Heraldic," 49 E 34- G.S., page 209, titled, "Will of Christopher Springer." The biographical account discusses the Springer family in Europe and North America, stating that the actions of the Orphans Court as stated in the will are dated June 9, 1669, three weeks after Christopher's death. Originally published by the American Historical Society in the 1920s.

Dates: 1920s