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Latter Day Saints

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts and publications about Indians

 Collection
Identifier: 9087
Abstract Correspondence, biographies, and accounts collected in the 1930s, but describing actions from many years previous. Focus is on western Indians, exploration, and pioneers, particularly pertaining to Colorado and Utah. Folder 1: correspondence from Thomas P. Willson of the society. Stories of Indian captivities in Nebraska. Folder 2: accounts about Tascosa Texas, Guatemala, Central America Accounts, E. B. Sopris, William Carroll Riggs, St. Louis, Pierre Laclede, William Campbell, The Pony...
Dates: 1934-1938.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Accounts and publications about Indians

Edward A. Ellsworth correspondence

 Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9203
Scope and content

Positive and negative Photostats of one letter from J. T. Irving to Edward A. Ellsworth dated November 14, 1833 from Fort Leavenworth and one letter from Edward A. Ellsworth to his brother Henry W. Ellsworth dated June 24, 1833 from New York. The Irving letter discusses the journey west and the Ellsworth letter describes conditions near the Platte River. Ellsworth mentions preparing documents for Congress, his father, Mormons, and purchasing a wild Indian horse.

Dates: 1833
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edward A. Ellsworth correspondence

Leo Bernard Skeffington papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3229
Scope and content Includes three volumes (pamphlets) entitled "Footprints," 1970, 1971; notebooks of letters and clippings concerning the Gannett Farms; first issue of USA TODAY, Gannett Co.'s national daily newspaper, September 15, 1982; and tape recordings of Skeffington's reminiscences of his career with Gannett newspapers and of Frank Gannett, his experiences with Mormons, the New York State (Geneva) Agricultural Experiment Station, Governor Reubin Askew and water resources in Florida, American water...
Dates: 1945-1983.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Leo Bernard Skeffington papers

Mary Bennett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 121
Scope and content

Diaries, certificates, diploma, notebooks, song books, pamphlets (including one promoting anti-Mormonism), and other items of Mary Bennett of Interlaken, New York.

Dates: 1866-1874.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Mary Bennett papers

Thomas Jarvis Yates article

 Collection — Manuscript box 14 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065301651]
Identifier: 1-2-m.355
Scope and content

Mimeograph reprint of a news story by Yates concerning the conversation between Count Leo Tolstoy and Andrew Dickson White about Mormonism.

Dates: 1943.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Thomas Jarvis Yates article

United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

 Collection
Identifier: 9188
Abstract

Typed transcripts of correspondence and records of activities with Indian nations. Transcripts include information on Indian census, Indian removal, reports from Indian agencies, United States policy, trade regulations, emigration, crime, and treaties. Many of the reports are from Indian agents to commanding officers or superintendents of the Office of Indian Affairs, some correspondence giving instructions to agents. Includes an index.

Dates: 1798-1874.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

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