Newly Accessible Collections, September 2025

By Jeff Morley, Church History Library

22 September 2025

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

September’s newly accessible collections offer many new local record and manuscript collections to research. Several of these collections to note include Elder Charles W. Penrose’s correspondence and papers he kept from 1851–1956 and the Eighth Ward Salt Lake Temple donation receipts from 1892–1893. You may also find interest in the British and Central British Missions photographs taken from 1959–1961.

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Local Record Collections

Alemouth Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1851–1853 (LR 10566 2)

American Fork 20th Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1975–1983 (LR 16182 2)

Bangkok Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1967, 1969-1970, 1972 (LR 504 2)

Berlin District manuscript history and historical reports, 1897–1962 (LR 688 2)

Diplomas de la Rama Puebla, 1961 May 24 (MX-01-00360)

Eighth Ward Salt Lake Temple donation receipts, 1892–1893 (LR 2525 27)

General Santos Servicemen's Group manuscript history and historical reports, 1969–1983 (LR 3148 2)

Missoula District general minutes, 1960–1977 (LR 5624 11)

Oregon West Stake general minutes, 1974–1975 (LR 6548 11)

Scandinavian Relief Society minute book, 1875–1879 (LR 604 41)

Stargard Branch general minutes, 1921–1925 (LR 12721 11)

Tulao Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1955–1983 (LR 9406 2)

Villa Colombia Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1969–1989 (LR 1308 2)

Manuscript Collections

Angus M. Cannon collection, 1854–1920 (MS 1200)

Augustus L. Chetlain journals, 1867–1873 (MS 36535)

Charles W. Penrose collection, 1851–1956 (MS 21330)

Cyrus D. Simper family collection, 1901, 1918, circa 1940–1951 (MS 36238)

Earl E. Hansen mission papers, 1946–1948, 2010 (MS 23090)

John Taylor revelation, 1886 September 27 (MS 34928)

Susa A. Young Gates letter of transfer, 1922 March 28 (MS 20985)

Photograph Collections

British Mission and Central British Mission photographs, 1959–1961 (PH 4139)

Erika E. Seiter photographs, circa 1938 (PH 12888)

Hurstville Ward photographs, circa 1920–1940 (AU-01-00022)

Lewis O. Clark photographs, circa 1895–1910 (PH 25)

Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, circa 1950 (PH 4702)

Sarah Lucretia Clayton and Edward Partridge Jr. family photograph album, circa 1855–1870 (PH 12890)

Stettin Branch photographs, circa 1921–1925 (PH 2941)

Print and Rare Collections

Christmas devotional: LDS Church employees, December 13, 1973 / Harold B. Lee (M231.29 L478c 1973)

Distribution Center Catalog Spanish/Catalan (Spain) Catalogo de publicaciones ye guía de compras (M258 D614SPAf)

Gesangbuch der Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage (M285.2 H99GER 1964)

Gesangbuch Kirche Jesu Christi Der Heiligen Der Letzten Tage (M285.2 H99GER 1985)

The Great Apostasy: considered in the light of scriptural and secular history / by James E. Talmage. (M271.3 T151g 1909a)

Himnos de Sion: una colección de himnos y canciones espirituales con letra y música, para el uso de los coros y las congregaciones de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Dias (M285.2 H99SPAa 1989)

Hinos (M285.2 H99POR 1981

Hymnes (M285.2 H99FRE 1992)

Il-principji ta’ l-evangelju (M230 G6762MLT 1991)

Inni (M285.2 H99ITA 1982)

Lauluja (M285.2 H99FIN 1984)

Official statement from the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, issued June 17, 1933 (M243.9 F527o no. 2)

Ol rul bilong gutnius (M230 G6762NML1990)

O Viiga i le atua (1991) (M285.2 H99SAM 1991)

Prospectus of the Brigham Young Academy, Provo (M266.5 P966)

Rolel e kede mo suobel amla mo beot e lomesodel (M230 G6762PLA 1991)

Star B (M257.56 S795b 1983)

The Text of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon (M222.32 S751t)

聖詩選集 (M285.2 H99CHI 1983 no.2)