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 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Early Utah account books, 1850-1881

 Series
Identifier: MSS 3147 Series 1
Scope and Contents note Samuel Richards Utah Territorial Tax Book, 1850-1857. Including: A brown, hard-cover book (16 x 9.5 cm) used by Samuel Richards to record territorial and county taxes paid in Utah Territory during the years 1850-1857. Includes some tax information for such prominent Church figures as Heber C. Kimball, W. W. Phelps, Abraham O. Smoot, and others.Samuel Richard Jewkes Sawmill Account Book—Emery County, Utah— 1879-1881. Including: One tan, leather-bound book (19 x 12 cm) used by...
Dates: Other: 1850-1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 3147, Early Utah collection

Early Utah business items, 1854-1908

 Series
Identifier: MSS 3147 Series 3
Scope and Contents note

Contract between Sidney A. Knowlton and O. B. Huntington— 6 February 1854. Letter—Hawkeye Steel Barb Fence Company to Springville Cooperative Institution— 11 May 1887. Letter recommending a certain building site for the Price, Utah courthouse. Bids for building the Utah State Prison— October 1907 and 15 February 1908.

Dates: Other: 1854-1908
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 3147, Early Utah collection

Early Utah collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197225547972]
Identifier: MSS 3147
Abstract

The items have been divided into five series: 1) Account Books, 1850–1881; 2) Letters, 1864-1912; 3) Business Items, 1854-1908; 4) Ephemera, 31 March 1866; and 5) Poem, 7 April 1868.

Dates: 1850-1912
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Early Utah collection

Early Utah ephemera, 31 March 1866

 Series
Identifier: MSS 3147 Series 4
Scope and Contents note

Playbill for the Salt Lake Theatre— 31 March 1866. Including: One playbill (31 x 8.5 cm) for the Salt Lake City Theatre. Advertising for The Creole; or, Love’s Fetters, staring Julia Dean Hayne [Brigham Young’s favorite actress]; Handy Andy!; and The Magic Spell!! Folder also includes a photocopy of the playbill.

Dates: Other: 31 March 1866
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 3147, Early Utah collection

Early Utah letters, 1864-1912

 Series
Identifier: MSS 3147 Series 2
Scope and Contents note Letter—Joseph S. Roberson to Nathan Stein— 19 October 1864. Including: One letter, approximately four lines long, written on The Overland Stage Line, Ben Holladay, Prop’r. letterhead. Roberson tells Stein he has arrived in Salt Lake and expects to be installed as agent within a day or two.Letter—Giles Moses to Alonzo Moses— 18 March 1865. Including: One letter (a folio with four pages), written by Giles Moses of Salt Lake to Alonzo Moses of Morgan, Ashtabula County, Ohio. Giles...
Dates: Other: 1864-1912
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 3147, Early Utah collection

Early Utah poetry, 7 April 1868

 Series
Identifier: MSS 3147 Series 5
Scope and Contents note

Poem—Ten years old, by Louisa Lula Greene Richards— 7 April 1868. Including: A one page, holograph poem, written by Louisa in Smithfield, Cache County, Utah, and addressed To my dear brother Daniel Kent Greene, on his tenth birthday. Apr. 7-1868. Folder also includes a photocopy of the poem.

Dates: Other: 7 April 1868
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 3147, Early Utah collection

East Feliciana Parish bill of sale

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS SC 1147
Dates: 1852 February 24
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Geneva Steel Holdings Corporation records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 3122
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of personnel and reference files, publications, and other corporate administrative records of the Geneva Steel Holdings Corporation, created between its establishment in 1942 and 2002. Also includes architectural drawings, photographs, negatives, slides, and videos.

Dates: 1939-2002
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Geneva Steel Holdings Corporation records

George Pearson indenture

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233244927]
Identifier: MSS SC 492
Scope and Contents

Ms. contains a legal document, an indenture between George Pearson and John B. Pearson, and William Daniel and James Backhouse which is a deed for land in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, giving a history of the ownership of the plot.

Dates: 1836
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / George Pearson indenture

Helen Foster Snow industrial cooperatives writings, 1975-1993, 1938-1959

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 2 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents Contains materials concerning the Chinese Cooperative Movement, cooperatives in India, cooperatives in the Western Hemisphere, and miscellaneous cooperative materials, including Helen Foster Snow's philosophy behind cooperatives. Many folders containing cooperative materials retained their original order and were preserved in whole in the collection. These folders will be noted with an * in the folder description. Unless otherwise noted, the materials are by Helen Foster Snow....
Dates: 1975-1993; 1938-1959
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2219, Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow papers on China

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