Newly Accessible Collections, July 2023

By Jeffrey Tucker, Church History Library
25 July 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. Consider, for example, the Martha Spence Heywood autograph book, 1828–1859 (MS 2119). Martha Spence Heywood was an early Latter-day Saint and pioneer who helped settle the Utah cities of Nephi and Washington. Her autograph book, which she treated more like a scrapbook, contains poetry from her friends and Church leaders, including Parley P. Pratt, John Taylor, Orson Hyde, Eliza R. Snow, and Vilate Kimball, among many others. It also includes art, such as pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, and engravings. Interestingly, the book also includes locks of hair from John Taylor, Erastus Snow, and Franklin D. Richards, along with a geometrical analysis of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

This month’s list of digitized collections also includes several sources originally published by other branches of the broader Latter-day Saint movement not affiliated with the Church, such as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (now known as the Community of Christ). Such sources are identified here by their titles.

When a collection has a title that is similar to another collection—as with the multiple versions of For the Strength of Youth below—its publication date is listed for clarity. For some of the following collections, log-in may be required to view them online. For more information on how the Church History Library determines access to materials, please see our access policy.

Newly digitized collections

Local Record Collections

Halifax Branch record, 1843–1854, 1874 (LR 3554 21)

Auckland 12th Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1968–1983 (LR 8413 2)

New Zealand South Mission general minutes, 1958–1968 (LR 6050 11)

Switzerland Zurich Mission manuscript history and historical reports, 1850–1977 (LR 8884 2)

Tri City Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1953–1954 (LR 16945 2)

Tacna Peru District manuscript history and historical reports, 1977–1982 (LR 16284 2)

Moses Lake 3rd Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1958–1983 (LR 5797 2)

Richland 1st Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1952–1983 (LR 7470 2)

Richland 4th Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1967–1983 (LR 7474 2)

Central States Mission miscellaneous records, 1918–1927 and 1959–1970 (LR 1562 43)

Moses Lake 2nd Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1956–1983 (LR 5796 2)

Gwelo Branch annual historical reports, 1978, 1980 [South Africa Johannesburg Mission] (LR 18998 3)

Shabani Branch annual historical reports, 1980 [South Africa Johannesburg Mission] (LR 18997 3)

Church Record Collections

Minutes, 1879–1884 [included in the “Presiding Bishopric bishops meeting minutes, 1851–1884” collection] (CR 4 2)

Letters (Brigham Young Jr.), 1893 January–March [a subseries of the “First Presidency mission administration correspondence, 1877–1918” collection] (CR 1 174)

Letters (Charles H. Hyde), 1911 October–1913 October [a subseries of the “First Presidency mission administration correspondence, 1877–1918” collection] (CR 1 174)

Manuscript Collections

Martha Spence Heywood autograph book, 1828–1859 (MS 2119)

Portrait photographs, 1900 March 7 [a subseries of the “Eliza C. Christensen papers, 1872–1986, bulk 1898–1910” collection] (MS 29199)

Hyrum J. Manning journal, 1886 February–May (MS 5624)

John V. Long journal and autobiography, 1851; 1862–1863 (MS 17342)

Joseph Smith revelation, 1832 December 25 (MS 3596)

David Kinghorn missionary journals and history, 1896–1898, 1982 (MS 27543)

Walter Granger temple record, circa 1877–1891 (MS 8079)

William Collard missionary journals and family history, 1889–1891, 1966 (MS 27528)

Reading church history, 1985 (MS 8007)

Print and Rare Collections

The Priesthood Bulletin (M205.1 P949, vols. 1–10, 1965–1974)

Alabemos [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (M291.851 A316SPA 1987)

A Selection of hymns, sung by Latter Day Saints [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (M291.851 S464o 1969)

Forward to Christ [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (M291.85 R424f 197–?)

Children’s Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1957] (M291.852 C536h 1957)

The Philosophy of the Earth and of Man (M230 S935p)

Himnario [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (M291.852 H658SPA 1964)

Hymns and Spiritual Songs [The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), 1855] (M294.4 H996 1855)

Hymns and Spiritual Songs [The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), 1875] (M294.4 H996 1875)

Deseret Sunday School song book: a collection of choice pieces for the use of Sunday Schools, and suitable for other occasions (M285.23 D451 1892)

Aandelige Sang til Brug i Mission og Sondagsskole [1925] (M291.852 A112sDAN 1925?)

Aandelige Sange til Brug Mission og Sondagsskole [1903] (M285.2 H99sNOR 1903)

Hymns of the Centennial (M291.852 H997oc 192-?)

K’ochunaca (M285.2 H99AYM 1978)

The Saints’ Harp [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1881] (M291.852 S157ha 1881 no. 2)

The Saints’ Harmony; also the Saints’ Harp [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1889] (M291.852 S157h 1889)

The Saints’ Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1895] (M291.852 S157hy 1895a)

The Saints’ Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1947] (M291.852 S157hy 1947)

The Little Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1938] (M291.852 L778hy 1938)

The Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1956] (M291.852 H996 1956)

Little Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1960] (M291.852 L778h 1960)

Little Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1967] (M291.852 L778h 1967)

Children’s Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1966] (M291.852 C536h 1966)

Hymns of the Saints [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1981] (M291.852 H997os 1981)

Hymns of the Saints [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1988] (M291.852 H997oss 1988)

For the Strength of Youth [1972] (M241 C561f 1972)

For the Strength of Youth [2002] (M241.22 F692 2002)

For the Strength of Youth [2006] (M241.22 F692 2006)

For the Strength of Youth [2008] (M241.22 F692 2008)

For the Strength of Youth [2011] (M241.22 F692 2011 no.2)

For the Strength of Youth [2011] (M241.22 F692 2011)

For the Strength of Youth [2012] (M241.22 F692 2012)

For the Strength of Youth [2014] (M241.22 F692 2014)

For the Strength of Youth [2016] (M241.22 F692 2016)

For the Strength of Youth [2018] (M241.22 F692 2018)

For the Strength of Youth [2020] (M241.22 F692 2020)

For the Strength of Youth: A Guide for Making Choices [2023] (M241.22 F692 2023)

General Conference Songs [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1922] (M291.85 G326 1922?)

Choir Music for Seventy-Seventh General Conference, 1936 [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (M291.85 C545 1936)

1956 General Conference and Reunion Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (M291.852 G326c 1956)

1957 General Conference and Reunion Hymnal [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (M291.852 G326c 1957)

World Conference Hymnal, 1970 [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (M291.852 W927 1970)

Saints Hymnal [The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), 1943] (M294.4 H996 1943)

Saints Favorites [The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), 1968] (M294.4 S157 1968)

Fourth General Epistle of the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Great Salt Lake (M277.92 F527g 1850)

Third general epistle of the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from the Great Salt Lake Valley, to the Saints scattered throughout the earth, greeting (M273.4 F527t)

Index of translated hymns (M285 I38 1969?)

Photograph Collections

Salt Lake City, Utah, photographs, circa 1920–1930 (PH 2888)

Stephen C. Bean photograph collection (PH 10333)

Newly opened collections (items are accessible in-person at the Church History Library but are not accessible digitally)

None this month.

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