Archive: June, 2017
June 30, 2017 by Cory Nimer
In order to escape the summer heat in Provo, under President Franklin S. Harris the university began offering summer courses at a retreat at the base of Mount Timpanogos in 1922. Courses offered included natural sciences such as geology and botany, as well as the arts. During the early years of the program, classes were …
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Art history students and other researchers interested in provenance and trends in the fine art and rare books trades will soon have access to Special Collections’ print auction catalogs. Our holdings of Swann Galleries, Sotheby’s, and Christie’s auction catalogs are in the process of being added to the library catalog. Swann Galleries’ auction catalogs are …
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June 26, 2017 by Ryan K. Lee •
family bible,
Far West,
genealogy,
Hyrum Smith,
Illinois,
Jerusha Smith,
Joseph Smith Sr.,
Kirtland,
Lucy Mack Smith,
Missouri,
Nauvoo,
Ohio,
property records,
William Marks,
William Robinson
As we prepare to remember the lives of Joseph and Hyrum Smith on the 173rd anniversary of their deaths on June 27th, L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of additional documents from the Hyrum Smith papers (Vault MSS 774) that were recently digitized. These include property records and a family record. The …
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June 19, 2017 by Ryan K. Lee •
California Mission,
Central States Mission,
Doyle S. Jensen,
family histories,
genealogy,
Idaho,
journals,
Kirsten Marie Sorensen Jensen,
Louis Reuben Jensen,
missionaries,
Southern States Mission,
Swiss and German Mission,
Winston McKay Jensen
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Jensen family journals and histories (MSS 6189). This collection contains journals and family histories of members of the Jensen family, including Louis Reuben Jensen, Kirsten Marie Sorensen, Doyle S. Jensen, and Winston McKay Jensen. Most of the diaries deal …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Merry May Booth Talmage journal (MSS 1607). Merry May Booth Talmage is the wife of Elder James E. Talmage, the author, educator, scientist, and Apostle. This handwritten diary of Merry May Booth Talmage, the only diary of hers still in existence, …
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Another prominent book of poetry which is having a major anniversary in 2017 is Edna St. Vincent Millay’s collection Renascence and Other Poems. Millay (1892-1950) was a popular lyric poet of the first half of the 20th century, and this was her first book. The title poem, “Renascence,” first appeared in 1912. Millay, aged 19, …
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This year is the 100th anniversary of the United States entering World War I, a war that would end up being one of the deadliest wars the world has ever seen. Many European countries had been fighting in the War since 1914, but the United States had maintained its neutrality. But this neutrality was not …
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June 5, 2017 by Ryan K. Lee •
Beaver,
Emmeline B. Wells,
letters,
minutes,
newsletters,
songs,
Utah,
Utah women's history,
Woman's Suffrage Association,
woman's suffrage movement,
women's rights
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Beaver County Woman’s Suffrage Association papers (MSS SC 48). This significant and rare collection related to women’s history in Utah contains handwritten documents of the papers of the Woman’s Suffrage Association which met in Beaver, Utah. Items include minutes, …
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