Utah -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Angus family papers
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311547]
Identifier: MSS SC 1382
Scope and Contents
Collection includes fourteen items related to the Angus family, including letters, newspaper clippings, and a bound volume of family records. The letters are primarily correspondence between Angus family members in Utah and friends and relatives in Scotland concerning genealogical research. The newspaper clippings relate significant events in the lives of Angus family members such as births, weddings, and deaths. The bound volume, created by Robert Archibald, includes genealogies, family...
Dates:
1820-1977
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Angus family papers
Emigration office receipts
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309715]
Identifier: MSS SC 1146
Scope and Contents
Emigration office receipts of the Mormon Church dated June 3, 1863 and issued in Florence, Nebraska. These items are orders for provisions and assure that the "warehouse" would pay Peter Anderson $2.50 and Peter Christiansen $2 in rations.
Dates:
1863
Joseph Fish typescripts of histories and diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2010
Scope and Contents
The Fish diaries cover his life from the 1840s to 1926. His histories of Arizona and his series on Pioneers of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Region cover aspects of western history from 1500-1905. The Joseph Fish typescripts include: "The Diaries of Joseph Fish," Fish's "History of the Eastern Arizona Stake of Zion and the Establishment of the Snowflake Stake," a "History of Arizona Territory," volumes 4-7 of "Pioneers of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Region," and "History of Enterprise...
Dates:
1902-1970
Outmigration Leadership History Project records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7469
Overview
Contains the records and oral histories of the Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project collected between around 1985 and 2007.
Dates:
approximately 1985-2007
Outmigration Leadership History Project case files and oral histories
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7469 Series 1
Scope and Contents note
Contains the case files, transcripts, and oral history interviews of the Mormon Leadership Outmigration project.
Dates:
approximately 1985-2007
Outmigration Leadership History Project research materials
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7469 Series 2
Scope and Contents note
Contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials used in the research of the Mormon Leadership Outmigration project.
Dates:
approximately 1985-2007
Orson Pratt papers and postcard
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237494]
Identifier: MSS SC 716
Scope and Contents
Handwritten letter to Nelson Pratt concerning the immigration of the Mormon pioneers to Ohio and Utah and the welfare of the Parley and Orson Pratt families. Also includes a handwritten postcard from Milando Pratt to Nelson Pratt concerning the death of Orson Pratt.
Dates:
1861, 1881
Eliza R. Snow diary
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331826]
Identifier: MSS SC 3239
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary. Snow writes about her life in Nauvoo, Illinois, and her migration across Iowa to Council Bluffs. She left Winter Quarters and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1847. She also describes her life in that city. She also includes many of her poems.
Dates:
1846-1849
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Eliza R. Snow diary