Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ida Blum collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1891
Abstract
The Ida Blum collection contains correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, speeches, genealogical information, and research notes.
Dates:
1804-1978
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Ida Blum collection
Esaias Edwards autobiography and diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 184
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography and diary. The account is retrospective until 1856. Edwards writes extensively about his conversion to the Mormon Church in 1839, life at Nauvoo, Illinois, and the death of two of his wives. There is a lengthy discussion in the opening pages of the diary about astronomy and a family cooperative city, "Edwardsville," which he hoped to build. Edwards made the overland journey from Iowa to Salt Lake City in 1848 by ox team and writes briefly about the scarcity of feed...
Dates:
1856-1882
Photographs of J. Young's residence in Nauvoo
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227643324]
Identifier: MSS 3729
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one stereo card image of J. Young's residence in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Dates:
approximately 1880