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Nauvoo (Ill.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal project files

William Patterson McIntire daybook

 Item — Oversize 1: [Barcode: 31197232542131]
Identifier: Vault MSS 806
Scope and Contents

Volume mainly consists of notes for business transactions. Also included are notes from sermons of several prominent Church leaders, including Joseph Smith, Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Willard Richards, Oliver Cowdery, Heber C. Kimball, Amasa Lyman, William W. Phelps, Parley P. Pratt, George Albert Smith, Vonson Knight, John Taylor, and Wilford Woodruff. Also includes genealogical information about the McIntire family. Dated 1840-1856.

Dates: 1840-1856
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Patterson McIntire daybook

Nauvoo, Illinois photographs

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227632749]
Identifier: MSS 4235
Scope and Contents

Two black and white photographs showing an aerial view of Nauvoo, Illinois in June 1962.

Dates: 1962
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Nauvoo, Illinois photographs

Nauvoo Legion printed receipt

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 800
Scope and Contents

Original and photocopy of Nauvoo Legion, printed receipt, dated 24 July 1843, No. 81, for $1.00. Signed by Wilson Law, Joseph Smith, and John S. Fulmer, paymaster. Printed with holograph signatures.

Dates: 1843 July 24
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Nauvoo Legion printed receipt

Harold F. Nufer collection of the Lorin Farr papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2952
Scope and Contents Harold F. Nufer collection of the Lorin Farr papers, 1820-1906, includes 6 archival series. Notable items include a Nauvoo land deed signed by Joseph Smith, Lorin Farr's journal recounting the exodus from Nauvoo, and letters from the First Presidency of the LDS Church. Series 1: Journals and Notebooks, 1834-1904 -- Series 2: Correspondence, 1820-1906 -- Series 3: Church Documents, 1844-1903 -- Series 4: Political and Business Documents, 1844-1870 -- Series 5: Newspapers and Articles,...
Dates: 1820-1906
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Harold F. Nufer collection of the Lorin Farr papers

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Photographs of J. Young's residence in Nauvoo

Postcards of Salt Lake City and Nauvoo, Illinois, historic sites

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239115386]
Identifier: MSS 9520
Scope and Contents

Four color postcards of historic sites in Salt Lakes City, Utah, and Nauvoo, Illinois, related to early Latter-day Saint Church and Utah history. Postcards depict a compilation of images of the Joseph Smith Homestead, Mansion House, and the Nauvoo House; an artistic rendering of the Nauvoo Temple; the Lion House in Salt Lake City; and the Salt Lake Theater. The postcards were collected by Larry Faria. Dated approximately 1920s to 1940s.

Dates: approximately 1920s-1940s
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Postcards of Salt Lake City and Nauvoo, Illinois, historic sites

Samuel Hollister Rogers diary, volume 1

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS1134_B1_F1
Dates: 1841-1855
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Samuel Hollister Rogers diary, volume 1, 1841-1855

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231043552], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1134
Scope and Contents Volume includes an autobiographical sketch for Rogers, from his birth in 1819 to life in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois, as an early member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Includes copies of patriarchal blessings for Rogers and some of his family members, including his parents, received in Kirtland and Nauvoo. More frequent entries start in 1843, during Rogers' mission to New Jersey from April 1843 to December 1844. Includes details about the exodus from Nauvoo to...
Dates: 1841-1855
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1134, Samuel Hollister Rogers diaries

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