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New York (N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Various glass plates

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4257
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 22 glass plate negatives of a variety of things, including Mayan symbols and ruins, children canoeing, children playing by a river and in a forest, the Woolworth and Municipal Buildings in New York City, images of Joseph Smith and his residences, the Sacred Grove, the Susquehanna River, Lucy Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris. Prints have been made from the glass plate negatives for patron use.

Dates: approximately 1900-1999

Mahonri M. Young papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, sketchbooks, research files, autobiographical files, scrapbooks, and news clippings. Also includes diaries, address and memorandum books, and financial records. Most letters were exchanged with family members and close friends. Primary correspondents included his son, Mahonri Sharp Young; his first wife, Cecilia Sharp Young; and Mary Lightfoot Tarleton, whom he met in Paris after Cecilia died in 1917. Research files include extensive information on other artists.

Dates: 1870-1957