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Politics, Government, and Law

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1638 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas J.C. Amory pay vouchers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324060]
Identifier: MSS SC 2476
Scope and Contents

Printed, handwritten, and signed pay vouchers dated 30 Sept. and 31 Oct. 1858. The items were created while Amory was serving with the United States Seventh Infantry at Camp Floyd, Utah.

Dates: 1858 October 31; 1858 September 30

Nels Anderson diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1299
Scope and Contents

Relates experiences and observations related to the war and its conditions. Includes also three printed maps of American offensives in France. Entries (384 pages) date from between 1918 and 1919.

Dates: 1918-1919

Alice Lofgren Andrus autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341304]
Identifier: MSS 2622
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Alice Lofgren was born in Huntsville, Utah, in 1919. She was a nurse during World War II serving at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, California, and on the USS Consolation. She married Ralph J. Andrus in 1949.

Dates: 2000

T. Pat Matthews interview with Mary Anngady

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346105]
Identifier: MSS 2874
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Anngady was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Anngady was educated on her master's plantation and went to Shaw Collegiate Institute after the Civil War. She gives a detailed description of what her husband told her of African tribal life. She talks about "savages," witch doctors, tribal kings, and...
Dates: 1937

Provo, Utah annual audit reports

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 895
Scope and Contents

Annual audit reports of Provo, Utah. Each volume has a number of divisions with a contents note at the beginning of each year.

Dates: 1940-1967

Anonymous autobiography of a Mormon nurse who served in Vietnam

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341171]
Identifier: MSS 2608
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography by an unnamed nurse. The author joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served on at least two tours in Vietnam as a nurse. She tells about the difficulties of helping men who died and about how she has tried to cope with the trauma of her experiences.

Dates: 2002

Marie-Thérèse Charlotte Anoulême autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230235274]
Identifier: MSS SC 177
Scope and Contents

Handwritten copy of an autobiography in French. Anouleme writes about the imprisonment of her family during the French Revolution, the execution of her father and mother, the trial preceding the sentencing of her mother, and her life in prison.

Dates: 1795

Susan B. Anthony letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315258]
Identifier: MSS SC 1800
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten letter to Esther Gerry concerning her membership application to the National Woman Suffrage Association, along with photocopies of the envelope, and a list of officers in the organization.

Dates: 1888

Anti-polygamy legislation

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322122]
Identifier: MSS SC 2371
Scope and Contents

Typewritten excerpts from laws passed by the United States with the intention of making the practice of polygamy a crime. The items are the relevant passages taken from the Anti-Polygamy Act of 1862, the Edmunds Law of 1882, and the Edmunds-Tucker Law of 1887. Also included is a signed typewritten statement by Edward V. Higgins (1858- ), notary public of Iron County, Utah, verifying that the excerpts were correct.

Dates: 1862-1896

Charles Ambrose Foster appeal

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233290995]
Identifier: Vault MSS 434
Scope and Contents

Handwritten appeal dated 16 Oct. 1844 and filed on 21 Oct. 1844. Foster, a publisher of the Nauvoo Expositor, appeals a conviction for breach of ordinances in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Dates: 1844 October 16