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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 758 Collections and/or Records:

Estelle M. Burton autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341221]
Identifier: MSS 2614
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Burton was a nurse for the United States Navy. She was stationed at Jacksonville, Florida, in 1948. She was in the service from 1948 until 1949. She married Lee D. Burton in 1949 and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: 2003
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Luke Cahill letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232511]
Identifier: MSS SC 14
Scope and Contents Letter from Cahill to D.H. Bellrose, Colorado State Senator, which introduces an accompanying typescript of a letter written by Cahill to U.S. Senator John F. Shafroth in 1918 in which Cahill requests help in securing a larger pension for his services in the Indian Wars. The 1918 letter outlines Cahill's various experiences during the wars and includes a typescript of a letter written in 1913 from W.F. Cody to Cahill, thanking him for his service while they served together in 1868 and 1869....
Dates: 1926
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230334432]
Identifier: MSS 1069
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten letters dated 3 Jan. 1882 and 6 Dec. 1883. John T. Caine and George Q. Cannon write of the death of William Henry Hooper in the 1882 letter, and James Sharp writes to Caine about how the activities of the United States Congress might have an impact on Utah in the missive of 1883.

Dates: 1882-1883
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Calvin Beecher family histories, approximately 2011

 Series — Folder 4: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233294633]
Identifier: MSS 7981 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains a CD-ROM of biographical information about Calvin and Jean Beecher and several of their ancestors. The biographical information contains funeral material, personal life sketches, biographies, and photographs, circa 2011.

Dates: approximately 2011
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Calvin Beecher papers

Calvin Schwartz Smith and Ethel Lucile Dimond Smith personal papers, 1906-1976

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8922 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains papers related to the personal life and accomplishments of Smith, and his wife Lucile. Includes awards and certificates for Calvin, and documents related to Lucile receiving the Utah Mother of the Year Award. Also includes letters from Philo T. Farnsworth and Victor L. Brown, and the missionary diary of Calvin. Dated 1906-1976.

Dates: 1906-1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Calvin Schwartz Smith and Ethel Lucile Dimond Smith papers

Calvin Schwartz Smith and Ethel Lucile Dimond Smith photographs, approximately 1890-1956

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8922 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs taken or collected by Smith. Includes photographs and postcards from Smith's missionary service in Germany as well as his service as chaplain in World War I. Also includes images of Hyrum Mack Smith's graveside, Smith at Carthage Jail with Sydney B. Sperry, and the Calvin Smith family with his mother, Mary Taylor Schwartz Smith. Includes a family scrapbook and some negatives from the C. R. Savage Studio. Dated approximately 1890-1956.

Dates: approximately 1890-1956
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Calvin Schwartz Smith and Ethel Lucile Dimond Smith papers

Calvin Schwartz Smith artifacts, approximately 1914-1930

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8922 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains artifacts owned and used by Calvin Schwartz Smith. Dated approximately 1914-1930.

Dates: approximately 1914-1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Calvin Schwartz Smith and Ethel Lucile Dimond Smith papers

Walter Mason Camp papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 57
Abstract The collection consists of correspondence, interview notes, general research and field notes, drafts of writings, photographs, maps, newsclippings and miscellaneous research and reference materials created and collected by Camp, and pertaining to the Indian Wars of the plains (1864-1890). The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence (1908-1923), interviews, general research and field notes (1890-1924). Chief interviewees and correspondents were the officers, enlisted men, and...
Dates: approximately 1870-1943
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Walter Mason Camp photograph collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233280335]
Identifier: MSS P 16
Scope and Contents Collection contains photographs of battlefields, groups of Native Americans, and portraits of notable individuals who were prominent in the Indian Wars including George A. Custer and other U.S. Army and Native American participants. Original prints (including albumen, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet cards), copy prints, postcards, halftones, engravings, and selected copy negatives prepared by the repository staff. The bulk of the collection was compiled by Walter Mason Camp and pertains almost...
Dates: 1862-1929
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Eugene E. Campbell interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331362]
Identifier: MSS SC 3181
Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted by Anita Louise Hummel on November 19, 1982 for the Ray Hillam war project. Cambell volunteered to be a military chaplain for the United States. He became a chaplain in 1944. He said he was under artillery fire and in dangerous positions in France. He carried no firearms and never shot at anyone. He visited wounded men in hospitals. He visited concentration camps and described the starving and dying people he saw there. He was designated as a Protestant...
Dates: 1982 November 19
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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