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Found in 879 Collections and/or Records:

Origin of the Hawaiian people

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337229]
Identifier: MSS 481
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten essay. The item includes translated folklore from the native peoples of Hawaii. Johnson argues the the Hawaiian traditions support the thesis that the Hawaiians are descendents of Adam, as found in the Bible, and of Lehi, a figure from the Book of Mormon.

Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Origin of the Hawaiian people

Our American Flag and what it represents / Gail S. Halvorsen, 2017 July 19

 Item — Box 64: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232560737], Folder: 18
Identifier: MSS 2220 Series 2 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 8
Dates: 2017 July 19
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2220, Gail S. Halvorsen papers / Gail S. Halvorsen papers, audio-visual recordings, and artifacts / Gail S. Halvorsen papers on post-military retirement / Gail S. Halvorsen writings on airlift and other topics

Our responsibility of judgment

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322379]
Identifier: MSS SC 2322
Scope and Contents

Typewritten essay. Ferguson writes from the Mormon perspective and states that humans are moral agents and have the ability to choose right from wrong. He is also negative on communism.

Dates: approximately 1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Our responsibility of judgment

An overland journey from San Francisco to New York by way of the Salt Lake City

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2217
Scope and Contents Handwritten copy of an article published in the "Good Words and Sunday Magazine" on 1 June 1866 (vol. 7, pp. 380-393). After serving as a gunboat captain in British Columbia, Verney made the overland journey by stage coach from San Francisco, California to New York City in 1865. Verney was a well-educated traveler and his description of the overland route is extensive. Stage coach traveling was exhausting and Verney describes both the rough conditions and his fellow travelers. Trouble with...
Dates: 1866
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / An overland journey from San Francisco to New York by way of the Salt Lake City

Paper: an essay in simple and complex sentences, 1878

 Item — Box 9: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197227606735], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 229 Series 2
Dates: 1878
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 229, James E. Talmage papers / James E. Talmage student materials

Paper on Max Hunt, 2001

 File — Carton 147: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 9; Series 10; Series 12; Series 13; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15, Folder: 86
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

File contains paper written by Catherine H. Ellis about Max Hunt and his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Paper describes letters written to and from Hunt and his mother Pearl. Paper presented at the 42nd Arizona History Convention. Dated 2001.

Dates: 2001
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II / Saints at War Project records for the United States Navy

Papers on Edgar Snow, 1992

 File — Box 35: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197227637748], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 2 Sub-Series 4 File 4
Scope and Contents

File of 12 articles on Edgar Snow, Helen Foster Snow's husband, and his work as a journalist in China; dated 1992.

Dates: 1992
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2219, Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow papers on China / Helen Foster Snow documents written in Chinese

Papers on Erastus Snow

 File — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197231044485], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 1403
Dates: approximately 1850-1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1403, Edwin Dilworth Woolley papers

Papers on Utah history

 File — Box 4: [Barcode: 31197231044493], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1403
Dates: approximately 1850-1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1403, Edwin Dilworth Woolley papers

Partial draft of "My China Years", approximately 1984

 File — Box 54: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197227637656], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 3 Sub-Series 8 File 5
Scope and Contents

Original and photocopy. Undated, but approximately 1984.

Dates: approximately 1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2219, Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow published and unpublished manuscripts / Helen Foster Snow files on My China Papers

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