BYU Library - Special Collections

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Contains materials for training missionaries to teach in the Italian language.

The 2015 accession includes two copies of the Italian "Missionary Guide" and a shared file for TRC actors in various languages. Materials dated 1967-2006.

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Digitized correspondence, financial and legal documents, church records, military records, manuscript revelations, poetry, journals, and other material by Newel Kimball Whitney and his family.

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Digitzed journals, scrapbooks, and papers from Paul Willes and Beth Dixon Cheney's Latter-day Saint missions to the Canada Winnipeg, Canada Halifax, Taiwan Taipei Temple, and Salt Lake Family History Missions. Dated 1975-1997.

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Digitized ledgers and account books of the Provo Tabernacle. The items list financial donations and other contributions given by the various wards of the Utah Stake to support the tabernacle and stake functions.

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Digitized collection of letters, journals, photographs and other records related to families of James Oakey and George Warren Sirrine, founders of Paris and Dingle, Idaho, and Mesa, Arizona. Collection was compiled by Sarah Oakey Sirrine, daughter of James Oakey and daughter-in-law to George Warren Sirrine. Includes primarily originals, but also includes some transcriptions and photocopies. Dated 1856-1938.

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Contains digitized annual compilations of programs distributed at music performances. Each volume contains programs for a given school year. Collection lacks volumes for 1982-1983 through 1995-1996; also 1997-1998 and 1998-1999.

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Contains digitized copies of letters, promissory notes, and other handwritten documents relative to matters between the Sfondrati family and political leaders in the region. Many of the items relate to family financial matters. Materials date from between 1531 and 1788.

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Contains digitized Shuro books, a magazine distributed by Fujiya Nara to Japanese Latter-day Saints during the 1920's and 1930's when Japan was closed to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Digitized legal documents from the law firm Wilkinson, Cragun, and Barker, concerning cases filed through the Indian Claims Commission.

Scope and Contents Digitized transcripts, printers' proofs, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, personal correspondence, 44 original manuscripts, imprints, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, notes, memoranda, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type. Many of the items are reproductions. The materials relate to the languages history and archaeology of the Indian peoples of Central...