Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 29

Wallace F. Bennett papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 20
Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, speeches, bills, legislative resolutions, press releases, and financial records that document Wallace F. Bennett's activities during his time as a senator between 1948 and 1974 in Utah and Washington D.C. The central topic of these materials (which were mostly created during Bennett's later terms in the US Senate) is the Cold War, including how to promote peaceful coexistence between the Soviet Union and America. They also reveal the immense changes that...
Dates: 1948-1984

George A. Black papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 735
Scope and Contents Collection contains letters and other documents related to George A. Black and his family. Most of the items relate to Black's tenure as Secretary of Utah Territory, which spanned from 1870 to 1876. He corresponded with several prominent leaders in Utah and Washington, D.C., including Brigham Young, George Q. Cannon, Daniel H. Wells, Ulysses S. Grant, and Benjamin Harrison, and the collection includes documents signed by each. The collection includes certificates for Black's appointment as...
Dates: 1862-1927

Bureau of Indian Affairs correspondence

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 785
Scope and Contents Photocopies of original letters with accompanying typescripts. Covers the nomination of Mormon Church leader Jacob Hamblin as a federal Indian agent for southern Utah, northern Arizona, and southeast Nevada.Also includes exchanges between W. F. M. Arny, the federal agent for the Navajo tribes; Jacob Hamblin and other Mormon settlers in Arizona; and Col. L. Edwin Dudley, regional Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Santa Fe, NM. These letters attempt to arrange a peaceful...
Dates: 1871-1874

George Q. Cannon family correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 7426
Abstract

Collection is comprised of letters, most of them written by George Q. Cannon during his time of service as a Utah Territory delegate to the United States House of Representatives. The remainder of the letters were written by a variety of family members and friends to Martha Telle Cannon. The bulk of the letters were written between 1872 and 1882.

Dates: 1868-1902

Collection on New Mexican territorial history

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1509
Abstract

Photocopies of handwritten and printed receipts, wills, correspondence, royal decrees, proclamations, pronouncements, grants, certificates, reports, licenses, orders, inventories, petitions, claims, and requests. The items were created mainly by New Mexican government officials and persons connected with local and territorial governments of that area.

Dates: 1526-1924

Arthur B. Cort letter

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 106
Abstract

The folder contains a handwritten letter dated 5 May 1884 and addressed to Clara Jane Riding. Cort informs Riding that he would strike her name from the list of registered voters if she did not come to the court house and take the appropriate oath against the practice of "bigamy."

Dates: 1884

William Horne Dame certificates and letter

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 110
Abstract

The folder contains microfilmed copies of a certificate of membership in the Utah territorial legislature, a certificate verifying that Dame was an elder in the Mormon Church, and a letter, dated 12 August 1858, of an "investigating committee" of prominent Mormons (including the apostle, George Albert Smith) stating that complaints against Dame were without foundation. The nature of these complaints was not stated.

Dates: 1856-1858

Department of the Treasury letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2069
Scope and Contents

Two handwritten letters from a copy book. The items deal with the payment of claims in Utah and paying the "Deseret News" for services. Also discussed is the appointment of federal officials in the Utah Territory.

Dates: 1857

Robert Spurrier Ellison papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 568
Scope and Contents

Microfilmed copies of handwritten and typescripts of interview notes, correspondence, general notes, and lists. The materials relate primarily to the Indian wars of North America from 1866 to 1895. The original materials reside in the Ellison--Camp collection at the Denver Public Library. The items were initialy created and collected by Walter Mason Camp with some materials generated by Robert Ellison. Also included are typescripts of some of the items.

Dates: 1865-1925

Finis Ewing collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1396
Abstract

Correspondence, certificates, and legal papers dealing with Ewing's personal and business life in Missouri. Some of the correspondence is from Thomas Hart Benton, Henry Clay, and Lilburn W. Boggs. The items relate to contemporary political issues both in Missouri and in the United States.

Dates: 1824-1841

Filtered By

  • Subject: Territorial Government X
  • Subject: Letters X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Utah -- History 7
Certificates 5
Correspondence 5
Material Types 5
Governors -- Utah -- Correspondence 4
∨ more
Saint George (Utah) -- History 4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 3
Mormons -- Utah -- Saint George -- History 3
Utah -- Politics and government 3
Church Government 2
Home and Family 2
Military 2
Mormon Church -- Presidents -- Correspondence 2
Notes 2
Parowan (Utah) -- History 2
Politicians -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Social Life and Customs 2
Adobe Walls, Battle of, Tex., 1874 1
Advertising and Marketing 1
Agriculture 1
Agriculture and Natural Resources 1
Apache Indians -- History 1
Arizona -- History -- To 1912 1
Arkansas -- History 1
Bills 1
Biography 1
Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce 1
Cherokee Indians -- Government relations 1
Cherokee Indians -- History -- Sources 1
Cheyenne Indians -- History 1
Chihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexico) -- History 1
Church and state -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 19th century 1
Church work with Indians -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History 1
Civil Procedure and Courts 1
Civil Rights 1
Claims 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Clubs and Societies 1
Colleges and Universities 1
Dakota Indians -- History 1
Decrees 1
Democratic Party (Mo.) 1
Disease 1
Economics and Banking 1
Education 1
Elementary and Secondary Education 1
Emigration and immigration law -- United States 1
Environment and Conservation 1
Environmental Activism 1
Environmental Conditions 1
Executive orders 1
Fillmore (Utah) -- History 1
Fisheries and Wildlife 1
Forestry and Logging 1
Fort Fetterman (Wyo.) -- History 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Sources 1
Governors -- Idaho -- Correspondence 1
Governors -- New Mexico -- Correspondence 1
Historians -- Correspondence 1
Histories (Literary works) 1
Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Religion 1
Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 1
International Relations 1
Inventories 1
Iron County (Utah) -- History 1
Labor History 1
Labor Unions 1
Legislative bodies -- Utah -- History -- Sources 1
Legislators -- United States -- History 1
Legislators -- Utah -- History 1
Licenses 1
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 1
Manti (Utah) -- History 1
Maps 1
Media and Communication 1
Medicine and Health 1
Mental Health 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
Mexico -- History -- 19th century 1
Mexico -- History -- Spanish Colony, 1540-1810 1
Microfilms 1
Military orders 1
Mines and Mineral Resources 1
Minutes (Records) 1
Missions and Missionaries 1
Missouri -- History 1
Missouri -- Politics and economy 1
Mormon Church 1
Mormon Church -- Apostles 1
Mormon Church -- Arizona -- History 1
Mormon Church -- Presidents 1
Mormon families -- History 1
Mormons 1
Mormons -- Correspondence 1
Mormons -- Utah -- History 1
Mormons -- Utah -- Iron County -- History 1
Mormons -- Utah -- Parowan -- History 1
∧ less
 
Language
Japanese 1
Multiple languages 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 4
Hooper, W. H. (William Henry), 1813-1882 3
Smith, George Albert, 1817-1875 3
Utah. Legislature 3
∨ more
Phelps, William Wines, 1792-1872 2
Richards, Willard, 1804-1854 2
Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1735-1788 1
Arny, W. F. M. (William Frederick Milton), 1813-1881 1
Bank of the United States (1816-1836) 1
Bennett, Wallace F. (Wallace Foster), 1898-1993 1
Bent, Charles, 1799-1847 1
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 1
Black, George A., 1841-1914 1
Boggs, Lillburn W., 1792-1860 1
Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881 1
Brunson, Lewis, 1831-1888 1
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
Camp, Walter Mason, 1867-1925 1
Cannon, George Q. (George Quayle), 1827-1901 1
Cannon, Martha Telle, 1846-1928 1
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Cort, Arthur B. 1
Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877 1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church 1
Curtis, W. E. 1
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 1
Dame, William Horne, 1819-1884 1
Deseret News (Firm) 1
Dudley, L. Edwin 1
Ellison, Robert Spurrier 1
Ewing, Finis, 1773-1841 1
Fernández de la Cueva Enríquez, Francisco, |c duque de Alburquerque, |d 1666-1733 1
Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886 1
Houghton, Joab, 1810-1876 1
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 1
James Cummins Book Seller 1
Macfarlane, John M. (John Menzies), 1833-1892 1
Medieo, W. 1
Morwitz, E. (Eduard) 1
Mucklé, Mark Richard, 1825-1915 1
Murray, Eli H. (Eli Houston), 1843-1896 1
National Immigration Convention (1870 : Indianapolis, Ind.). Executive Committee 1
Otero, Miguel Antonio, 1859-1944 1
Oñate, Juan de, 1549?-1624 1
Pino, Pedro Baptista 1
Poland, Luke P. (Luke Potter), 1815-1887 1
Pollock, James, 1810-1890 1
Populist Party (U.S. : 1892-1908) 1
Pratt, Orson, 1811-1881 1
Prince, L. Bradford (Le Baron Bradford), 1840-1922 1
Ramsay, A. (Alexander) 1
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
Riding, Clara Jane 1
Ross, John, 1790-1866 1
Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876 1
Snow, Mary Ann V., 1821-1907 1
Snow, Sarah E. W., 1840- 1
Snow, Warren, 1818-1896 1
Staines, William Carter, 1818-1881 1
Steptoe, Edward Jenner, 1815-1865 1
Tanner, George S. 1
Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs 1
United States. Congress. House 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
United States. Department of the Treasury 1
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 1
Van Zile, Philip T. (Philip Taylor), 1843-1917 1
Vargas, Diego de, 1643-1704 1
Vigil, Donaciano, 1802-1877 1
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1
Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863 1
Young, John W. (John Willard), 1844-1924 1
∧ less