Newly Accessible Collections, January 2023

By Jeffrey Tucker, Church History Library

24 January 2023

Explore dozens of recently digitized collections to enable your research wherever you are in the world.

Below, you’ll find a list of materials in the Church History Catalog that are newly accessible. You will see three categories of collections: 1) previously open collections that have been digitized, 2) previously closed collections that are now open for research (but not digitized), and 3) collections that are both newly opened and digitized.

Consider, for example, the newly digitized Returned Missionary Registers, 1898-1913. These notebooks contain the names of missionaries who served between 1898 and 1913 along with each missionary’s mission assignment, hometown, date set apart, and return date. If you are researching the life of someone who served a mission during this period, you may find them here.

For more information on how the Church History Library determines access to materials, please see our access policy. For some collections, login may be required to view them online.

Previously Opened, Newly Digitized Collections

Local Record Collections

Redlands Branch general minutes, 1936-1977 (LR 7379 11)

Houma Ward Aaronic Priesthood minutes and records (LR 3906 12)

Houma Ward Relief Society minutes and records (LR 3906 14)

Arica North Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1974-1975 (LR 14851 2)

Nuku'alofa West Stake Sunday School minutes and records (LR 6276 15)

Kaysville Ward Relief Society minutes and records, 1878-1937 (LR 4531 14)

Port Moresby Branch annual historical reports, 1980 (LR 14408 3)

Brandenburg Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1927-1962 (LR 948 2)

Merthyr Tydfil 1st Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1843-1982 (LR 5450 2)

Pacific Grove Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1952-1984 (LR 6662 2)

St. George 2nd Ward Relief Society minutes and records (LR 7750 14)

St. George 4th Ward Relief Society minutes and records (LR 7752 14)

St. George 1st Ward Relief Society minutes and records (LR 7749 14)

Fremont 1st Ward manuscript history and historical reports (LR 1531 2)

Gibraltar Mission manuscript history and historical reports, 1852-1853 (LR 8758 2)

Norwich Ward general minutes, 1850-1852, 1898-1922, 1945-1977 (LR 6245 11)

Loughborough Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1848-1982 (LR 5063 2)

Manuscript Collections

Dimick B. Huntington statement, 1862 January 1 (MS 4085)

Andrew R. Halversen journals, 1922-1926 (MS 14914)

Hosea family papers, 1945-1998 (MS 24423)

Isaac F. Goff mission diaries, 1893-1897 (MS 27744)

Edward and Rulon Rich photographs, 1934-1945 (MS 24371)

Celebración del Día de Pioneros artículo de periódico, 1997 July 21 (MS 28764)

Newton Andrus mission journals and autobiographies, 1896-1898, 2008 (MS 29602)

Fannie W. Parkinson correspondence, 1901-1903 (MS 32207)

Grain convention papers, 1864-1866 (MS 14790)

George C. Wilson papers, 1838-1862 (MS 5493)

Eli H. Pierce diaries, 1857-1858 (MS 1411)

Hyrum J. Manning journal, 1888 September-November (MS 4597)

Sterling Mining and Milling Company papers, 1895-1896 (MS 3886)

John W. Mattice missionary journal and tracting book, 1898-1899 (MS 7036)

James S. Jones papers, 1901-1903 (MS 15133)

Hyrum J. Manning journals, 1886 May-1888 April (MS 13435)

Charles C. Rich diaries, 1833-1862 (MS 13083)

Photograph and Map Collections

Mormon pioneer defense wall, Echo Canyon, Utah, circa 1920s (PH 7239)

Banquet in honor of return of Utah Field Hospital Corps, 1916 December 26 (PH 2357)

J. Wilmore Turner mission photograph albums, 1938-1941, 2011 (PH 9004)

Robert G. Wade photographs, 1972-1974 (PH 5484)

Palmyra, New York, photographs, circa 1880-1960 (PH 5364)

Read family photographs, circa 1860-1940 (PH 5754)

Northwestern Shoshone photographs, circa 1880-1971 (PH 8000)

Grave of Brigham Young lantern slide, circa 1890 (PH 10637)

Temple Square lantern slide, circa 1887 (PH 10702)

Salt Lake Theatre stereograph, circa 1885 (PH 114)

Print and Rare Collections

Book of Mormon (Religion 121-122) student manual / Prepared by the Church Educational System. (M266.16 I59b 1979-1980)

Brigham Young's funeral march: in memory of his excellency, Brigham Young, ex-governor of Utah Territory and late president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who died August 29, 1877... (M285.1 D275b 1877b)

The life and teachings of Jesus & his apostles: course manual (Rel. 211-212) / prepared by the Church Educational System. (M266.16 I59n 1983)

The Doctrine and Covenants : student manual: (religion 324-325) / prepared by the Church Educational System. (M266.16 I59d 1981-1982)

Washington Ward Chapel, 40th anniversary commemoration, November 9-11, 1973: organ recital, dinner, sacrament meeting (M277.53 W319wa 1973)

Old Testament: 1 Kings-Malachi: (Religion 302), student manual / prepared by the Church Educational System. (M266.16 I59o v. 2 1981-1982)

Old Testament: Genesis-2 Samuel: (Religion 301), student manual / prepared by the Church Educational System. (M266.16 I59o v. 1 1980-1981)

Introduction to the Pearl of Great Price and its teachings: Religion 327 (M266.16 I59p 1983)

For the strength of youth -- LDS standards (M241 C561f 1965)

Church Record Collections

Missionary report registers, 1886-1918 (CR 301 35)

Missionary departure registers, 1880-1902 (CR 301 45)

Oral History Collections

Thomas Polacca interview: Polacca, Arizona, 1992 April 29 (OH 1518)

Newly Opened and Digitized Collections

Church Record Collections

Missionary Department missionary notification registers (CR 301 46)

Returned missionary registers (CR 301 1)

Publicity Committee scrapbook, 1930 (CR 125 2)

European Mission. Relief Society Presidents’ Conference Minutes, 1929 (CR 271 15)

Local Record Collections

North Bend Ward general minutes, 1962-1973 (LR 6140 11)

Manuscript Collections

Vukuanu A. Uhila journals, 1981-1988 (MS 30319)

Clarence E. Owens journals (MS 27663)

Newly Opened Collections (But Not Yet Digitized)

Church Record Collections

Teacher development committee miscellany (CR 27 1)

Correlation Committee minutes (CR 398 1)

West Seminary (Salt Lake City) yearbooks (CR 452 2)

Manuscript Collections

James L. Gibson family collection, circa 1852-1980 (MS 19368)

James P. Larsen correspondence, 1880-1881 (MS 15925)

Isaac F Goff mission diaries, 1893-1897 (MS 27744)

Maria H. Burton diaries, 1875-1919 (MS 6329)