Provo (Utah) -- History
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
Brigham Young University Oral History Project transcripts and case files, 1965-1982
Includes contracts from and contact information for participants in the Brigham Young University Oral History Project, as well as the original audio recordings of the oral history interviews, and transcripts for those interviews, 1965-1982.
Flora Robertson Brimhall autobiography
Typewritten autobiography. Brimhall writes about her family background, her youth in Spanish Fork, Utah, her marriage to George H. Brimhall, and gives her reflections on polygamy. As an adult, she lived in Provo, Utah.
Harry Butler diaries
Holograph diaries for the years 1955-1959 and 1964 contained in five small notebooks. The items are short and list daily activities. The author probably lived in Provo, Utah.
Newbern I. Butt price list
The collection contains handwritten notations on printed columns. The materials trace the price of various agricultural items and certain foods in Provo, Salt Lake City, and St. George, Utah from 1852-1910.
John M. Cannon papers
This collection contains thirty-nine letters written to and by John M. Cannon, a Salt Lake City attorney. There are business letters and personal correspondence. The business letters deal mainly with business: mining, ranching, buying and selling of farm land, closing of bank accounts, etc. The contents of the collection span the years between 1893 and 1914 and are arranged chronologically.
Center for Family & Community History project records on churches of Provo, 1866-1987, bulk: 1960-1987
Contains project records on various religions found in the Provo and Orem areas of Utah, and how they began in Utah. Includes clippings, notes, drafts, photographs and negatives, typed historical essays, and other material. Dated 1965 to 1987.
Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain : handmaiden of the Lord
Bound typewritten autobiography of Mary Woolley Chamberlain. Mary lived in St. George, Kanab, Provo, and Salt Lake City, Utah. She gives detailed accounts of family life, Mormon Church activities, and events in these towns and in Utah in general from her birth to 1936 when she wrote her history. This record was compiled, typed, and put with genealogy work-sheets and photographs probably in 1981. Also included are tributes to Mary by family members.
Virginia Chipman notes
Handwritten notes in a notebook. The notes are apparently associated with classes taken at the university. Also included are notes relating to the meetings of the "Young Ladies of the Second Year" at the university.
Herald R. Clark collection of bank records
Contains minute books, ledgers, balance books, cash books, blotter books, stock certificate books, and letter press books. The materials document operations of the First National Bank of Provo, the Provo Commercial and Savings Bank, and the Ogden State Bank. Collection includes stock certificates for John Taylor, Reed Smoot, Erastus Snow, George Q. Cannon, A. O. Smoot, and others. Also includes notes and letters of Reed Smoot, Warren Dusenberry, and others. 131 v.
Biography of Mary Ann Brown Clark
Typewritten biography of Mary Ann Brown Clark (1859-1962). Mrs. Dixon writes about Mary Clark, who died at the age of 103 and was thought to have been the oldest woman in Utah at that time. Mrs. Dixon relates the experiences of Mary Clark while she was living in Pleasant Grove, Panguitch, St. George, and Provo, Utah.