Provo (Utah) -- History
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
Hyrum Fisher Smith papers
The contents of this collections relate to or belonged to Hyrum Fisher Smith. Included in the collection are a razor and its case, tithing receipts, tax notices, bills and invoices, daybooks and calendars, correspondence, and newspaper articles. The contents of the collection have been divided into categories, with each folder representing a different genre. Within each folder, the documents have been ordered chronologically.
A. O. Smoot affidavit
Handwritten affidavits sworn before Smoot as mayor of Provo, Utah. The manuscript was apparently recorded by Smoot who seems to be responsible for much of its wording. The item deals with disturbances by United States soldiers in Provo, Utah.
A. O. Smoot papers
Stephens & Ford, Undertakers' business card
The folder contains a printed business card advertising that the company of Stephens and Ford, Undertakers was open day and night, around 1900. The business was advertised as "Directing funerals, embalming and shipping bodies a specialty."
Eunice Pease Haws Stewart notes and diary
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary kept from 4 March 1855 to 2 April 1858. There are many gaps. Stewart writes about her experiences while her husband is on missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Nevada and Australia. She lived in Provo, Utah. Wilford Woodruff, Apostle in the Mormon Church, briefly lived with her family when Salt Lake City, Utah, was evacuated during the Utah Expedition in 1858.
Study of the lower Provo River
Study of the land, geographical resources, wildlife, vegetation, commercial zoning, residential zoning, traffic circulation, flood control, state resources, federal resources, parks, recreation, home utilities, office utilities, water, and history of Provo, Utah, for the purpose of making preliminary recommendations concerning land use and development. The committee was chaired by Leona Holbrook.
George Sutherland letter
Typewritten copy of a letter dated 7 Nov. 1903 and composed in Salt Lake City, Utah. The item was addressed to Chester Isaiah Long, a United States senator. Sutherland, then a member of the United States House of Representatives, endorses the election of Reed Smoot to the United States Senate. He also writes about early political parties in Provo, Utah.
George Sutherland letters received
Handwritten letters written to George Sutherland while he was a lawyer in Provo, Utah. The items deal largely with legal and business matters in various areas of Utah. Most items have been severely water damaged.
George Terry Taylor scrapbook of Lynn Dixon Taylor family papers
Scrapbook materials include a family scrapbook that contains correspondence, photographs, family histories, newspaper clippings, military papers, and ephemera. Dated 1898-1967.
Maria D. Taylor diaries
Handwritten diaries. Taylor writes about going on a camping trip in 1894 and accompanying her husband, Arthur Nicholls Taylor, on a mission for the Mormon Church in England in 1902.