William Alvin Bowles papers includes personal mission diaries, his mission library, including hymn books, a dictionary, and scriptures; mission photographs; and related mission ephemera.

Typescript of an interview taken from the included cassette sound tapes. The interview was conducted by Jennie Groberg in 1964 and 1965. Holbrook talks about his ancestors, and his wife, Alsina Elizabeth Brimhall (1876-1960), whom he met at Brigham Young University and married in 1901. He talks about his education, his children, his occupations, and his missionary experiences with the Maori people of New Zealand.

Includes photographs of Maori members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Because of their unique nature, annotations have been included.

Contains annotated photographs of missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand. Annotations are general and include greetings and addresses.

Contains photographs of New Zealand street scenes, wagons, and a military parade.

Contains five volumes, dating from October 1906 to March 1910, that chronicle William Alvin Bowles' three-year mission to New Zealand for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Includes one William Alvin Bowles holograph written in Maori; a New Zealand postcard; and dried leaves from New Zealand.

Contains photographs of William Alvin Bowles on his mission.