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George Washington Bean diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1038
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries, two autobiographies, account books, patriarchal blessings, biographies of family members, and Bean family history and genealogy. Bean writes about his early life and migration to Utah; his work as an Indian interpreter from 1852 to 1853; his pursuit of the Ute chief, Walker, in 1854; his Indian mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1855 to 1856; his life in Provo, Utah; his participation in the Black Hawk Indian War; and...
Dates:
1852-1897
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jennifer Reeder interview with Catherine Bowles
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2947
Scope and Contents
Oral history of Catherine Bowles, from an interview conducted by Jenny Reeder.
Dates:
2004
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Henry Aldous Dixon diaries
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1823
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries. Dixon writes about his missionary activities in for the Mormon experience in England and South Africa. Dixon also tells about his work in the general tithing office of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, and his work for the Provo Woolen Mills in Provo, Utah.
Dates:
1860-1880
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Roy Watkins Doxey papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3270
Scope and Contents
The papers of Roy Watkins Doxey contain research notes and materials, scrapbooks, correspondence, graduate student papers, and family history materials.
Dates:
approximately 1944-1974
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Thomas Giles diaries
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 994
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries and teaching notes. Giles writes about his daily activities in Provo, Utah; his two missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii (1890-1897 and 1905-1907); his work at a lime kiln; his work on a railroad; and his teaching of Sunday School for the Church.
Dates:
1890-1927
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lafayette Hinckley and Alsina Elisabeth Holbrook letters
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 3689
Abstract
The letters of Lafayette Hinckley Holbrook and Alsina Elisabeth Brimhall Holbrook contain letters dated 1897–1913 (bulk: 1897–1901).
Dates:
1897-1966
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Isgreen family correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 612
Scope and Contents
Holographs, two printed items and one typescript. The collection includes 28 letters written by or to members of the Isgreen family, 15 of which are written by or to Emil Isgreen. The correspondence is generally family news with a few business letters, two missionary letters from Wales and a description of Mattie Isgreen's travel in Hawaii. Also included are an invitation to a ball, 1896, the Democratic ticket for Provo, Utah, ca. 1900, and a thought on prayer.
Dates:
1894-1907
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Albert Stephen Jones papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 350
Scope and Contents
Contains diaries and photographs, including twenty stereographs, documenting Jones's experience as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Samoa and Tonga from 1893 to 1896. The diaries detail his daily activities and talk about the nature of his work. Jones continued to write in these diaries after his return to Provo, Utah until 1902. The collections also contains a handwritten Tongan-English dictionary copied by Jones and a 1895 article on Tongan cannibalism...
Dates:
1893-1902
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Missionary Training Center records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 5545
Scope and Contents
Collection documents the operation of primarily the Provo Missionary Training Center; it is divided into series of language training materials, gospel teaching and missionary training materials, and floor plans (and similar/related documents) for other worldwide missionary training centers, visitors' centers, LDS Church historical sites, etc.Contains language textbooks, foreign editions of Church materials, cultural guides, study plans and area handbooks, grammar and vocabulary...
Dates:
approximately 1929-2017
My turn on earth : reflections at sixty-five
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2972
Scope and Contents
Contains information about his early life, education, LDS Church callings and service, employment, family, health, retirement, and favorite quotes. Recounts his early life in Eden, Arizona, 1927-1936; and Thatcher, Arizona, 1949-1952. Also comments on his activities at the University of California Berkeley, 1956-1964; missionary service, 1947-1949; service as a mission president, 1965-1968; work on Brigham Young University faculty, 1962-1992; and residence in Provo, Utah, beginning in...
Dates:
1992; 1992
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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