Contains correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, plaques, printed ephemera photographs, and other material created by Elaine Cannon and other members of the Cannon family. The materials document Cannon's church service, writing, and family life. Includes audio and video recordings. Also includes materials created by D. James Cannon, mainly related to his personal life and church service. Materials date from between 1832 and 2003.

Collection contain a letter, a eulogy, and some articles. These papers are all in regard to the Cannon family, and their importance to the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Includes seven photographs of the Cannon family collected by John M. Cannon. Also includes one nitrate negative with a corresponding print. Dated approximately 1890-1939.

Legal correspondence, receipts and bills, tax notices, and other personal and business papers. Also included are biographies of various Cannon family members. Also included is correspondence belonging to John A. Bagley, Cannon's associate.

Sound tape reel and transcript of an oral interview with Margaret Clayton by Dennis Rowley and John Bluth held on 17 Nov. 1977 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Margaret was a granddaughter of the Mormon Church leader George Q. Cannon and tells of her recollections of the man and his activities. She also tells about the Cannon family.

Collection includes a handwritten diary, letters, and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the diary was written from 1891 to 1893 prior to her marriage. The entries are lengthy and often introspective. The volume includes some later entries from 1932 to 1933 and some notes from 1980 in another hand. Also included is miscellaneous correspondence relating to business and family matters from 1932 and 1933.

Mimeographed copy of a typewritten history. Georgius Cannon writes humorous stories about his ancestors, George and George Q. Cannon, and about other members of his family. The item was "written about 1932 and reedited in 1962."