Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Ida Blum collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1891
Abstract
The Ida Blum collection contains correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, speeches, genealogical information, and research notes.
Dates:
1804-1978
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Esaias Edwards autobiography and diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 184
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography and diary. The account is retrospective until 1856. Edwards writes extensively about his conversion to the Mormon Church in 1839, life at Nauvoo, Illinois, and the death of two of his wives. There is a lengthy discussion in the opening pages of the diary about astronomy and a family cooperative city, "Edwardsville," which he hoped to build. Edwards made the overland journey from Iowa to Salt Lake City in 1848 by ox team and writes briefly about the scarcity of feed...
Dates:
1856-1882
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ida Blum correspondence and genealogy, 1804-1978
Series
Identifier: MSS 1891 Series 2
Scope and Contents
Contains material collected by Ida Blum. Includes mostly correspondence between Ida and various people. There are miscellaneous papers and certificates included as well. Dated 1804-1978.
Dates:
1804-1978
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Ida Blum collection
Photographs of J. Young's residence in Nauvoo
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227643324]
Identifier: MSS 3729
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one stereo card image of J. Young's residence in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Dates:
approximately 1880
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
T. Edgar Lyon papers, approximately 1836-2005
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7955 Series 1
Scope and Contents
Contains T. Edgar Lyon's research and composition files on Nauvoo and Mormonism, teaching files, correspondence, personal documents and memorabilia, family records, including papers on Hermana Forsberg Lyon, wife of Edgar, and personal library, dated approximately 1836-2005.
Dates:
approximately 1836-2005
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Lyon family papers