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Religion

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas E. Cheney papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1798
Scope and Contents

Twenty reel-to-reel tapes which record folk songs, typescripts of the recorded folk songs in two volumes, four volumes of folk songs, and one volume of Mormon folk tales. The materials relate largely to Mormon folklore and Mormon folk songs.

Dates: 1840-1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Thomas E. Cheney papers

Look on the side that's bright

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322247]
Identifier: MSS SC 2339
Scope and Contents

Handwritten poem written on Brigham Young Academy stationary. The stationary is dated 189-. The poem is signed by "Thos. Jones Jr." The poem suggests that people be optimistic about their lives.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Look on the side that's bright

Parley Pratt Nelson diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2261
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photocopies of two diaries of Parley Pratt Nelson, a student who participated on the Benjamin Cluff Brigham Young Academy Expedition (1899-1900) and served a mission in Southern California for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1901-1903).

Dates: 1900-1903
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Parley Pratt Nelson diaries

Sunday School minutes

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 358
Scope and Contents

Contains minutes of the Brigham Young Academy and Brigham Young University Church Sunday Schools, 1902-1913.

Dates: 1902-1913
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Sunday School minutes

Walter M. Wolfe diary and congressional testimony

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8374
Scope and Contents

Collection contains transcriptions pertaining to the life of Walter M. Wolfe. Material includes a transcription of his diary about life in Mexico as a missionary and explorer dated 1900 to 1901. It also includes copies of the congressional transcript of Wolfe's testimony from the Reed Smoot United States Senate hearing in 1906. Dated 1900-1906.

Dates: 1900-1906
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Walter M. Wolfe diary and congressional testimony

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