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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 870 Collections and/or Records:

Newspaper clippings and histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 847
Scope and Contents Photocopies of newspaper clippings and photocopies of typewritten histories. The materials relate to the history of Manchester and Shortsville, New York, and nearby areas. Included are "Manchester in the Early Days" by Charles W. Brown, notes for a "History of Methodism in Phelps" by M. P. Blakeslee, and miscellaneous articles. This Charles Brown may have been Charles Walter Brown (1866-1934), a historian and author. Many of these materials relate to the early history of the Church of...
Dates: 1883-1911
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Hugh Nibley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2721
Scope and Contents

Contains the personal and professional papers of Nibley. Includes research notes, manuscripts, photographs, publications, personal papers, and ephemera that document his work as a Mormon scholar, a professor, and a father. Materials date approximately 1844 to 2008.

Dates: approximately 1844-2008; Majority of material found within approximately 1940-2000
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Niels H. Nielsen donation to Perpetual Emigrating Fund

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239291971]
Identifier: MSS 9065
Scope and Contents

A list of twenty Danish members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the amount they were in debt to Niels Hans Nielsen, totaling $1,741.75. Nielsen authorized the transfer of these debts owed him to Brigham Young as a donation to the Perpetual Emigration (or Emigrating) Fund. Signed by Nielsen and two witnesses at Brigham City, Utah, on April 30, 1860.

Dates: 1860 April 30
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Elizabeth M. Nielson scrapbook of South Pacific tour and New Zealand temple dedication

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233646287]
Identifier: MSS 8320
Scope and Contents Scrapbook contains materials pertaining to the New Zealand Missionary Society Temple Dedication tour. The scrapbook was created to memorialize Nielson's trip to see the New Zealand Temple dedication, which included pre-travel correspondence, itineraries, Pan American certificates of travel, hotel and restaurant pamphlets, country magazines, and newspaper articles. Also loosely included are pamphlets from the Tribute to the Tabernacle, June 1978, and the Jordan River Temple dedication, June...
Dates: 1957-1979
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Noel B. Reynolds research, approximately 1903-1999

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2164 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains research by Reynolds regarding the teaching of the Book of Mormon. Includes manuals, reports, and other materials.

Dates: approximately 1903-1999
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Noel B. Reynolds research on Book of Mormon use

D. Kelly Ogden lecture slides

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8214
Scope and Contents

Contains slides made by D. Kelly Ogden between 1966 and 1997. There are 4,205 slides taken in various places throughout the Holy Land, other sites of Bible stories, Mormon historical sites in the Eastern United States, and Book of Mormon sites in Central America. Slides include photographs of landscapes, artifacts, ruins, and students reenacting Bible stories.

Dates: 1966-1997
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

On morality, polygamy and the Mormon faith

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312362]
Identifier: MSS SC 1404
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes for a speech by an unknown author given at a Mormon conference at Liverpool, England of which the first 8 pages are missing. The item discusses the doctrines of salvation, morality, polygamy, and the Mormon faith.

Dates: approximately 1850
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

One hundred similarities between the Book of Mormon and the Spaulding Manuscript

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230316256]
Identifier: MSS SC 1825
Scope and Contents

Typed carbon copy. Bown argues that Joseph Smith was, as the author of the Book of Mormon, heavily influenced by Spaulding's manuscript.

Dates: circa 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oral history interview with Irving W. Poulsen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233274577]
Identifier: UA OH 179
Scope and Contents

Contains the thirty-six page transcript of the interview conducted by Zane C. Calderwood with Poulsen. Irving W. Poulsen describes his family, early home life, relations with the Indians, his exeprience in World War I all in relation to being a Mormon. The oral history is thirty-six pages long. Zane M. Calderwood's purpose of interviewing is to pass on Irving Poulsen's personal views on the religous philosiphies that brought his ancestors to America and to the west.

Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

Oral history of Brigham Young University Hawaii hale moms

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6699
Abstract

This collection contains interviews from three former hale, or dorm, moms at Brigham Young University Hawaii performed by Brad Westwood during April 2008. Included in this collection are the interview transcripts for each interview and the cassette tapes.

Dates: 2008
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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