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Territorial Government

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

Biographies of Utah territorial legislators

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3113
Scope and Contents

Collection of biographies of Utah territorial delegates, senators, and congressmen between 1850 and 1976. Materials are arranged alphabetically, and include compiled lists of published biographical information on each individual. Creator of the materials is unknown.

Dates: 1850-1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

George A. Black papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 735
Scope and Contents Collection contains letters and other documents related to George A. Black and his family. Most of the items relate to Black's tenure as Secretary of Utah Territory, which spanned from 1870 to 1876. He corresponded with several prominent leaders in Utah and Washington, D.C., including Brigham Young, George Q. Cannon, Daniel H. Wells, Ulysses S. Grant, and Benjamin Harrison, and the collection includes documents signed by each. The collection includes certificates for Black's appointment as...
Dates: 1862-1927
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs executive orders

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315407]
Identifier: MSS SC 1790
Scope and Contents

Photographic prints and photocopies of Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs' 1838 "extermination order" of the Mormons, Governor Christopher Bond's executive order rescinding it, and a newsclipping describing the rescission.

Dates: 1838-1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Diego Miguel Bringas y Encinas map

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233282802]
Identifier: Vault MSS 30
Scope and Contents

Hand-drawn map in Spanish. "Nuevo viage hecho por los Religiosos del Colegio de la Sta. Cruz a los Pimas Sentilies del Rio Gila, en Octubre de 1795 cuya Ruta se demarca con puntos." The map covers the area from 30 degrees to 34 degrees latitude and from 262 degrees to 269 1/2 degrees longitude.

Dates: 1795
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Diego Miguel Bringas y Encinas map

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233282844]
Identifier: Vault MSS 34
Scope and Contents

Hand-drawn map of California including the Baja area. The date of the item is uncertain. The map extends from 20 degrees to 50 degrees north latitude and from 260 degrees to 290 degrees longitute.

Dates: 1773
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Deed to Alexander Bryan for land purchased in Crawfordsville, Indiana

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233244976]
Identifier: MSS SC 499
Scope and Contents

Printed form with handwritten notations. Signed by Ethan A. Brown, Commissioner of the General Land Office.

Dates: 1835
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

The building of A Peoples' History of Utah

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233632287]
Identifier: MSS 8205
Scope and Contents

Contains one videocassette titled The Building of A Peoples History of Utah, about the making of Dean L. May's miniseries A Peoples' History of Utah. It is a short video on the production team. Dated 1989.

Dates: 1989
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Bureau of Indian Affairs correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305275]
Identifier: MSS SC 785
Scope and Contents Photocopies of original letters with accompanying typescripts. Covers the nomination of Mormon Church leader Jacob Hamblin as a federal Indian agent for southern Utah, northern Arizona, and southeast Nevada.Also includes exchanges between W. F. M. Arny, the federal agent for the Navajo tribes; Jacob Hamblin and other Mormon settlers in Arizona; and Col. L. Edwin Dudley, regional Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Santa Fe, NM. These letters attempt to arrange a peaceful...
Dates: 1871-1874
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

George Q. Cannon family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7426
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence between George Q. Cannon, Martha Telle Cannon, and other various authors between 1868 and 1902. The bulk of the letters, however, are from George Q. Cannon to Martha Telle Cannon during his time as Utah Territory Delegate to the United States House of Representatives. The letters include information regarding home and family affairs, Martha Telle Cannon's family history, matters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, reports of missionary...
Dates: 1868-1902
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Carrington family letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3144
Scope and Contents Collection includes five letters, including: a letter from Albert Carrington to Calvin Saxton Woods Carrington [C. S.], 20 December 1884 (2 pages, signed, 21 x 13.5 cm.) discussing his son's search for a position as a music teacher, as well as relating the burning down of one "B. W." 's house; a letter from George Sims to Albert Carrington, 5 December 1855 (2 pages, signed, 24.5 x 20 cm.) [Carrington is on a trip with the First Presidency of the LDS Church to Fillmore, Utah, the first...
Dates: 1855-1884, bulk 1884
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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