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Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Clissold family biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233097]
Identifier: MSS SC 70
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a 1910 autobiography of George Clissold, Mormon convert and English immigrant to Salt Lake City, Utah. Also includes a typewritten biography of Charles Edward Clissold, his oldest son, written by Lenora Pearl Clissold Vincent, Charles Edward's daughter, which tells of his early life, marriages, children, immigration to Utah, work, family life, acting experiences, and death.

Dates: 1900-1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Clissold family biographies

Last performances of Wheeler's comedy troupe

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342450]
Identifier: MSS 265
Scope and Contents

Printed broadside. The item advertises the coming attractions and performances of the Salt Lake Theatre Company from Saturday 31 Oct. to Monday 2 Nov. of an unspecified year. The years 1857, 1863, 1874, 1885, 1891, 1896, and 1903 fit these criteria.

Dates: 1885
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Last performances of Wheeler's comedy troupe

The mystic spell : a pantomime in seven scenes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318617]
Identifier: MSS SC 1953
Scope and Contents

One handwritten script for the play "The Mystic Spell" by an unknown author believed to have been written in the 1880s. The script is not for a true "pantomime," since some of the parts involved speaking. The item was found in the ruins of the Salt Lake Theatre in Salt lake City when it was torn down.

Dates: 1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / The mystic spell : a pantomime in seven scenes

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