Skip to main content

Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Moana B. Bennett oral history interviews

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6839
Abstract

Collection of transcripts and audio cassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Moana B. Bennett from 1980-1984.

Dates: 1980-1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Moana B. Bennett oral history interviews

J. M. Boutwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1647
Scope and Contents Consists largely of personal and business correspondence and material dealing with Boutwell's career as a geologist (maps, notebooks, manuscripts and illustrations, education, mineral samples, etc.). It also includes familial details (legal and other documentation of his divorce from Esther; family history, including documentation of his claim as a direct descendant of Francis Cooke, a passenger on the Mayflower, possessions of ancestors such as the medical notebooks of H.T. Boutwell,...
Dates: 1772-1979
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / J. M. Boutwell papers

Cannon and Willis families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2216
Abstract Boxes 1 and 2 being mostly manuscript material and booklets (as well as a few photographs), and boxes 3-5 being diaries and a folder of photocopies from a scrapbook and an autobiography. Most the manuscript material is typescript in form, coming from various persons. Boxes 3, 4, and the first folder of 5 contain all 33 of Lucy Grant Cannon's diaries. Some of her diaries overlap, meaning she apparently kept, sometimes, two or even three diaries at the same time. Her last six diaries, black in...
Dates: 1891-2003
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cannon and Willis families papers

Dean of Students films on Native Americans

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 762
Scope and Contents

Contains three motion pictures that were used as information resources by the Dean of Students' Office. Includes a documentary on Mexican Indians entitled "The Tarahumara" done by James Dearden for the Multicultural Educational Department; a documentary entitled "Beauty Before Me: Navajo Weavers" done by Michael Van Wagenen and Shaun Jorgensen; and a drama entitled "A Different Drum" done by Wetzel Whitaker.

Dates: 1974-1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Dean of Students films on Native Americans

Robert Ellison Western photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 115
Scope and Contents Collection includes two hundred and thirty photographs, including oversize images, one tintype, and a Brady photograph, with images of the oil industry and oil fields, landscapes of the West, G. A. Custer, and Ellison family and friends; stereographs of Indian wars, Wyoming; various western personalities and places; and postcards. Also includes four photographs and a postcard of Edward Copely and family. Also a picture of the printing shop at the "Old Nez Pierce Mission", and a postcard of...
Dates: approximately 1880-1949
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Robert Ellison Western photographs

Ignacio Garcia oral history

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232572146]
Identifier: MSS 8123
Scope and Contents

Contains the oral history of a Brigham Young University history professor who immigrated to the United States from Mexico with his family in 1956. Also contains his memories of the Vietnam War. The date is 2012.

Dates: 2012
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Ignacio Garcia oral history

International Programs records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 1131
Scope and Contents

Contains files pertaining to the foreign studies programs run by the university, including those in Austria, Israel, London, Mexico, and Spain. Materials date from between 1971 and 1992.

Dates: 1971-1992
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / International Programs records

The law and the eagle

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231189892]
Identifier: MSS 4225
Abstract

A two-book historical novel centered in Durango, Mexico and first printed in 1990.

Dates: Other: 1968-1990
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / The law and the eagle

Gordon B. Moody films

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7576
Scope and Contents

Contains three 16 mm films. Two of the films are about a cultural study program to Mexico in 1951, and the other is about Argentina missionaries immediately following World War II. There is also a DVD of the history of Millard County covering the period from 1940-1990.

Dates: 1949-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Gordon B. Moody films

Parley Pratt Nelson diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2261
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photocopies of two diaries of Parley Pratt Nelson, a student who participated on the Benjamin Cluff Brigham Young Academy Expedition (1899-1900) and served a mission in Southern California for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1901-1903).

Dates: 1900-1903
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Parley Pratt Nelson diaries

Staff Interface | Send Feedback or Report a Problem

More information about Special Collections including Hours, Services, Events, and Exhibits can be found at lib.byu.edu/special-collections.

The BYU Library aims to create descriptions of collections that are inclusive and support an “environment of belonging.” If you encounter language in finding aids, catalog records, or collection descriptions that you find offensive or believe to be harmful, we invite your feedback at librarydescription@byu.edu.