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Contains 7 Results:

Joseph W. Booth, Alpine, 1885-1886

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Includes poems, stories, life and work (mostly black smithing and farm work) in Alpine, Utah and learning blacksmith trade in Cache County, Utah. Entries date from July 1, 1885 to October 31, 1886.

Dates: 1885-1886
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

J. W. Booth's daily journal : second book, 1886-1889

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 2
Scope and Contents

Describes his work and school in Alpine, and being a student at Brigham Young Academy. Entries date from between November 1, 1886 and May 27, 1889.

Dates: 1886-1889
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Journal : third book, 1889-1895

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 3
Scope and Contents

Contains a phrenological Chart pasted on back cover. Describes his working in Alpine and Summit County, Utah; selling books in Sanpete County, Utah; marriage, student at Brigham Young Academy, teaching school in Alpine and Pleasant View. Entries date from between May 28, 1889 and March 31, 1895.

Dates: 1889-1895
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Joseph W. Booth journal, 1893 June-August

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 4
Scope and Contents

Contains notes by Frank D. Strong, of Alpine, Utah, as well as entries by Booth. Includes information on Booth's summer working in Summit County, songs, and poems. Booth's entries date from between June 3, 1893 and August 5, 1893.

Dates: 1893 June-August
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal, 1895-1897

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 5
Scope and Contents

Describes teaching school in Pleasant View; farming and Church activities; life as a student at Brigham Young Academy; and teaching school in Montpelier, Idaho. Entries date from between April 1, 1895 and January 31, 1897.

Dates: 1895-1897
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Diary of J. W. Booth while traveling from Alpine, Utah, U.S. to Aintab, Turkey, 1898-1899

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 6
Dates: 1898-1899
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 155
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries and poems. These journals were kept from 1885 to 1928 when Booth was in Alpine, Utah, at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, and in Turkey and Armenia as a missionary and as mission president.

Dates: 1885-1916
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems

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