Newly Accessible Collections, November 2024

By Jeff Morley, Church History Library

25 November 2024

Explore dozens of newly accessible collections to enable your research wherever you are in the world.

This month’s newly accessible collections include Anthon H. Lund’s journals. Anthon H. Lund served as an Apostle, Church Historian, and counselor to the First Presidency from 1901 to 1921.

Other items of note include Parley P. Pratt Jr.’s journal and record book from 1861 to 1864, the Historian’s Office letterpress copybooks from 1895 to 1915, and photographs of the Japanese Embassy taken circa 1872.

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Church Records

Historian's Office Letterpress Copybooks, 1895–1915 (CR 100 39)

Manti Temple Setting Apart of Temple Workers, 1888 May 28 (CR 348 22)

Local Record Collections

Sonora Mission Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1887–1889 (LR 12395 2)

Manuscript Collections

Anthon H. Lund Journals, 1860–1921 (MS 5375)

Benjamin Goddard Mission Journal, 1892 February–1895 June (MS 13534)

Brigham Young Letter to Daniel Spencer, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1850 November 25 (MS 36125)

City of Nauvoo v. Thomas J. Hunter, writ, 1842 November 29 (MS 34815)

Illinois. Governor’s Commission to John S. Gleason, 1842 September 19 (MS 9102)

Illinois. Governor’s Commission to George Woodward, 1842 June 22 (MS 8734)

Illinois. Governor's Commission to Hyrum Smith, 1841 December 14 (MS 16715)

Parley P. Pratt Jr. Journal and Record Book, 1861–1864 (MS 8338)

Thomas G. Rich Mission Papers, circa 1910–1911 (MS 35342)

Vinson Knight Deed to Lemira Calkins, 1841 March 13 (MS 7069)

Photograph Collections

Cecil Woodward Mission Photographs, circa 1903–1905 (PH 12276)

Dedication of South America for Missionary Work, 1925 (PH 803)

Harvey R. Durrant Mission Photographs, circa 1935–1937, 1950 (PH 12516)

Japanese Embassy Photographs, circa 1872 (PH 201)

Lou H. VandenBosch Photograph, 1948 December (PH 12731)

Mormon Beehive Girls, Leipzig, Germany, circa 1920s (PH 6256)

Robert M. Callister Missionary Photographs, circa 1941–1942 (PH 12721)

Thomas C. Tekulve Photographs, 1944; 1959 (PH 6537)

William E. Jenkins Central States Mission Photograph Collection, 1908–1909 (PH 11451)

William D. Forman Mission Photographs, 1910 September 9, 1911 (PH 12454)

Oral History Collections

Alexandre and C. Helen Paul Oral History: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004 December 27 (OH 3881)

Print and Rare Collections

The Amateur (M205.1 A487 v. 1-2 1877–1879)

[Book of Mormon Selections]. Korean (M222.45 B724KOR 1962)

Bruce R. McConkie, 1915–1985 (M270.1 M1288b 1985)

A Grand Concert, Ball and Supper for the Benefit of the Scandinavian Mission House, Copenhagen, Denmark, Will Be Given (M256.4 S283s)

MIA Music Supplement (M257.43 M987 1964–1965 supp.)

MIA Music Supplement, 1966–67 (M257.43 M987 1966–1967 supp.)

MIA Music Supplement, 1969–70 (M257.43 M987 1969–1970 supp.)

MIA Music Supplement, 1970–71 (M257.43 M987 1970–1971 supp.)

Sunbeam Manual (M257.56 S957b 1990)

Supplement to More Songs for Children / [Primary Association]. (M285.25 S959 1983)

Uniform System for Teaching Families (M256.1 C561uf 1980)