Newly Accessible Collections, October 2022

By Jeffrey Tucker, Church History Library

25 October 2022

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

Below, you’ll find October’s list of newly accessible collections to explore in the Church History Catalog, such as the resource files about the Botswanan Band of Brothers, a group of young men baptized in Mochudi, Botswana, between 2010 and 2012. The resource files feature books written about the Band of Brothers, as well as photographs and correspondence, providing a personalized perspective into the growth of the Church in southern Africa.

Additionally, beginning this month, we are pleased to list Church History Library collections that have recently been opened to research. Thus, below, 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. (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

Church Record Collections

Nauvoo Trustees papers, 1844–1848 (CR 5 64)

Local Record Collections

Box Elder Stake Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association minutes and records, 1875–1944 (LR 933 17)

Houma Ward Primary Association minutes and records, 1957–1973 (LR 3906 18)

Second Ward Relief Society minutes and records, 1868–1973 (LR 8214 14)

Teton Stake letterpress copybooks, 1902–1911 (LR 9061 23)

Manuscript Collections

Brigham Young Jr. journals and papers, 1862–1902 (MS 1236)

Hamilton G. Park diaries, 1873–1875, 1894–1900 (MS 21675)

Jens C. A. Weibye reminiscences and journals, circa 1862–1893 (MS 1432)

Kurt E. Bernhardt letter and photograph, 1943; 2004 (MS 18859)

LeGrand Richards postcard, 1908 (MS 24233)

Nauvoo Temple drawing file, 1851; 1921 (MS 22980)

Reddin Allred mission journal, 1854 February-May (MS 15967)

Rulon C. Allred papers, 1932, 1933 (MS 32720)

Photograph and Map Collections

Church buildings in Bear Lake, St. Charles, and Montpelier, Idaho, 1976 (PH 3219)

Hamilton Conference Canadian Mission photograph, 1921 December 26 (PH 10522)

Montpelier Idaho Tabernacle photograph, circa 1930s (PH 9580)

Portrait of Brigham Young, circa 1858 (PH 1349)

Print and Rare Collections

History of San Bernardino Stake: 15th and 111th Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1851–1980 (M277.94 S198h 1980)

Map of Salt Lake City, Utah [map] (917.9225 M2973um 1907)

Official map, Salt Lake City [map] (917.9225 O32 19--?)

The Old fort, Great Salt Lake City, Great Basin, North America, as constructed by the pioneers upon their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 [map] (979.2251 M849of 1955)

Through the years: a brief history of the Sixth-Seventh Ward, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1849–1955 (M277.9225 S6255t)

Newly Opened and Digitized Collections

Church Record Collections

Band of Brothers resource files, 2011–2019 (CR 1065 1)

Manuscript Collections

Architectural drawings of St. George Temple, 1871–1943 (MS 11499)

Jacob H. Crosby mission papers, 1902–1951 (MS 23517)

Richard M. Koplin mission papers, 1921–1950 (MS 31791)

William G. Sears journal, 1895–1902 (MS 31116)

Oral History Collections

Filippinas America Lomatnta (Ping) Batchelor interview: Buena Park, California, 1989 June 10 (OH 4082)

Newly Opened Collections (But Not Yet Digitized)

Church Record Collections

Mutual Improvement Association Missionary Committee minutes, 1962–1972 (CR 15 8)

Young Men general board member lists, 1906–1995 (CR 14 7)

Local Record Collections

Leicester England Stake stake center anniversary program, 2001 April 28 (LR 4819 23)

Manuscript Collections

Excursion to the Arizona Temple, 2009 (MS 22527)

Harold S. and Mona E. Madsen mission papers, 1991–1998 (MS 26076)

Thomas Grover histories, circa 2004–2012 (MS 29061)

Oral History Collections

Siu H. Pon interview: Hong Kong, China, 2015 August 19 (OH 8387)

Stanley Wan interview: Central, Hong Kong, 2001 October 26 (OH 2969)