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Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher course materials and professional files, 1973-1997

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 4
Scope and Contents Contains the professional materials of Beecher, including records from symposiums and conferences largely on the topics of Mormon women, literature, and religion in general. Also includes correspondence, faculty notes, meeting minutes, records on college administrative structures and committees, faculty evaluations, her application for rank advancement, her curriculum vita, an application for leave, and a guide to the archives. Also contains records from special projects Beecher had a role...
Dates: 1973-1997

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal project files, 1970-1995

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 3
Scope and Contents Contains various personal projects of Beecher, including those she headed or collaborated on. Materials include manuscript drafts, research files, and related correspondence. Projects include papers for various seminars and associations, Church News vignettes, a history text chaper, talks to honors students at BYU and other students, and projects to be published. Materials cover topics including the Relief Society, Canadians in Utah, diaries and autobiographies of Mormon women, Utah in the...
Dates: 1970-1995

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher project files on Eliza R. Snow, 1975-1994

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 3 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains Beecher's personal project files on Eliza R. Snow, including her poetry and songs, her Nauvoo Journal and other diaries, photographs and maps from Nauvoo and Utah, an ancestral file, an index to Snow's writings, the administrative history of the Relief Society, and other research materials on Snow. Includes many of Beecher's publications on Snow, most notaby "The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow," "Eliza Remembers," "Inadvertent Disclosure: Autobiography in the Poetry of Eliza...
Dates: 1975-1994

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher research materials, 1972-1997

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains Beecher's research materials for various projects. Includes interview materials with Juanita Brooks, lists and file cards of Mormon pseudonyms, and questionnaires for Canadians in Utah. Also contains a map of Kirtland, records on pioneer companies, a cemetery list, photographs of women in the earlier 20th century, a bound copy of the Men and Women newspaper from 1895, as well as various diaries and letters of early Mormons. Also includes records on women in upper Canada and research...
Dates: 1972-1997

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher research materials on Lorenzo Snow, approximately 1974-1991

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains research materials on Lorenzo Snow including his life chronology broken down into five-year segments, as well as specific files covering his missions to Italy, Great Britain, and within the United States, his time at Oberlin College, and apostleship and time as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also contains family records, records on the Brigham City cooperative, files on his ten wives, his prose and poetry, copies of census records, as well as diaries...
Dates: approximately 1974-1991

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher research materials on women in Upper Canada, approximately 1986-1994

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains research files on women in upper Canada, including a thesis on Irish Palatine communities, various letters and diaries, history of Ontario and other cities, and information covering loyalism and the American Revolution. Also contains records about various individuals, notably John and Mary Page, early Latter-Day Saints, and Barbara Heck, cited as the mother of American Methodism, circa 1986-1994.

Dates: approximately 1986-1994

Charles Ursenbach collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230332261]
Identifier: MSS SC 3150
Scope and Contents

The collection contains additional diaries of Charles Ursenbach for the years 1923,1926,1970,1977, and 1978 (all of which are pocket-size); a copy of "A Collection of Hymns For the Use of People Called Bible Christians;" a photograph of Charles Ursenbach with other Latter-day Saint missionaries in Montreal, 1926; and genealogical information on the Ursenbach family and "My Story" by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, written in October 1957.

Dates: 1923-1985