Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, newspaper articles, reports, manuscripts, oral histories, and other material concerning the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, mostly from 1940-2005. Collection includes administrative files, history of the Primary and Relief Society organizations within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, social services and women in the church. The records concerning the Primary and Relief Society organizations document the beginning of those...

Scope and Contents Contains records from publications concerning Latter-day Saint Women. Includes materials for Women of the Covenant and Within the Households of Faith: Selected Writings of Latter-day Saint Women, 1830-1900. It deals with the beginnings of the Relief Society Organization, the women who organized it and what type of women made up this establishment. It outlines the beginnings of the group in Nauvoo, Illinois, with Joseph Smith presiding and Emma Smith becoming the first General President of...