Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, speeches, bills, legislative resolutions, press releases, and financial records that document Wallace F. Bennett's activities during his time as a senator between 1948 and 1974 in Utah and Washington D.C. The central topic of these materials (which were mostly created during Bennett's later terms in the US Senate) is the Cold War, including how to promote peaceful coexistence between the Soviet Union and America. They also reveal the immense changes that...

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Handwritten per diem receipt dated 24 January 1853 and signed by Ezra Taft Benson (1811-1869). The receipt acknowledges payment of $120.00 from Benjamin G. Ferris, secretary of the treasury, Utah Territory, for service at the 1852-1853 Legislative Assembly.

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Letters, notes, legislative bills, reports, audits, and other legislative papers of Utah State Senator Wilford Black, circa 1975-1981.

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Printed forms with handwritten notations. The collections includes Bond No. 3298 redeemable on Jan. 1, 1893 with six percent per annum interest secured by sixty thirty-dollar bonds, redeemable on Bond No. 3298 on Jan. 1 and July 1, 1863-1893.

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Typewritten and signed letter dated 30 July 1929 and addressed to Samuel Russell, attorney at law in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bowen asks Russell if he will participate in a discussion on revising the tax laws of Utah.

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The collection contains one personal tax ledger book for Great Salt Lake City during the years 1856-1857, just prior to the Utah War. It contains a record of personal taxes paid, recorded by Ward, and by individuals in the Ward. It includes the records of twenty Wards as well as the Sugar House Ward. The ledger book also includes the names of several early and important members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including Brigham Young.

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Microfilmed copies of correspondence, speeches, resolutions, press releases, newspaper articles, certificates, and excerpts from the Congressional Record. Many of the items were created by Cannon's secretary, Caroline Evans. The materials deal largely with the question of free coinage of silver in the United States. The collection is found on six reels of microfilm positively reproduced and on six reels of microfilm negatively reproduced.

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Handwritten certificate recording a cattle brand dated March 23, 1878. The item allows Swen Hogen to use the brand SV.

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Handwritten and signed letters mostly from Davenport. Also incluced are letters from the Secretary of War for the United States, Charles Conrad, and various other officials in the Treasury Department of the United States. The items are concerned with Davenport's claim for compensation for expenses incurred as military governor of Matamoros.

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Handwritten and signed letter, dated September 13, 1801, and addressed to James Stevenson, Jr. Hamilton writes about business matters.