Recently Digitized Collections, April 2022

By Jeffrey Tucker, Church History Library

4 May 2022

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

Below, you’ll find April’s list of recently digitized materials to explore in the Church History Catalog, such as the George Q. Cannon letter copy book, 1871–1879, which contains copies of extensive letters that Cannon sent from Washington D.C. to Brigham Young, John Taylor, and Daniel Wells in Utah. Cannon was a member of the United States House of Representatives at the time; many of his reports describe events and political proceedings related to the Church and the Utah Territory.

The following collections feature one or more items that have been digitized and are available for viewing online. For some collections with copyright restrictions, login may be required to view them online.

Local Record Collections

Bluff Ward Sunday School minutes and records, 1885–1973 (LR 797 15)

Mount Vernon Washington Stake general minutes, 1963–1964, 1975–1976 (LR 1454 11)

East Garland Ward general minutes, 1904–1966, 1971–1977 (LR 2426 11)

Gunma Branch general minutes, 1960–1977 (LR 3513 11)

Kyoto Ward general minutes, 1950–1953, 1961–1977 (LR 4535 11)

Koloa Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1964–1975 (LR 4505 2)

London Conference minutes, 1841–1877 (LR 5006 32)

North Las Vegas Nevada Stake general minutes, 1960–1977 (LR 4736 11)

Auckland 21st Ward annual historical reports, 1980–1983 (LR 16188 3)

Las Vegas 34th Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1972–1979, 1982–1983 (LR 9122 2)

Las Vegas 43rd Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1975–1979, 1982–1983 (LR 17422 2)

East Melbourne Branch general minutes, 1927–1949 (LR 9584 11)

Scandinavian Mission statistical record, 1858–1865 (LR 9332 30)

Savannah 2nd Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1962–1983 (LR 8159 2)

Vidalia Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1957–1980 (LR 9779 2)

Statesboro Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1962–1976, 1981–1983 (LR 8688 2)

Savannah Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1927, 1955–1983 (LR 8160 2)

South Georgia District Sunday School minutes and records, 1943–1947 (LR 8499 15)

Swiss and German Mission papers, circa 1880–1927, 1940–1947 (LR 8884 46)

Selbongen Branch manuscript history and historical reports, 1921–1938, 1965–1971 (LR 8218 2)

East Garland Ward Sunday School minutes and records, 1904–1948, 1957–1973 (LR 2426 15)

Bridlington branch missionary record, 1900–1902, 1910–1915 (LR 1140 38)

Las Vegas 26th Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1966–1983 (LR 4726 2)

East Garland Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1884–1983 (LR 2426 2)

San Diego South Stake Relief Society minutes and records, 1962–1963, 1967–1973 (LR 7903 14)

Columbia Missouri Stake Melchizedek Priesthood minutes and records, 1969–1973 (LR 1894 13)

Waycross Branch general minutes, 1960–1977 (LR 9962 11)

Southern Far East Mission report, 1957 (LR 8552 21)

Twin Falls Idaho Stake publications, 1927, 1951–1953, 1963 (LR 9477 20)

Church Record Collections

All-Church basketball tournament souvenir programs, 1949 –1971 (CR 14 28)

Manuscript Collections

Heber C. Kimball blessing to Sarah P. Kimball, 1847 March 21 (MS 33201)

Waldmar F. Bailey mission papers, 1909–1919, 1936–1942, 1963–1993 (MS 12722)

Book of the generations of Jacob Gibson, 1849–1881 (MS 1493)

Thomas McIntyre journal, 1854 November–1913 May (MS 1794)

Mary S. Kelly journals, 1880–1941 (MS 10035)

Franklin F. Ballif mission journals, 1896–1898, 1937, 2011 (MS 30766)

John Murdock letter, Lima, Illinois, to Sister Crocker, 1839 July 21 (MS 605)

David K. Stoddard autobiographical sketch, circa 1913 (MS 11718)

George Q. Cannon letter copy book, 1871–1879 (MS 3401)

John C. Cutler Hotel Utah construction scrapbook pages, 1909–1911 (MS 33833)

Judith C. Jardine papers, circa 2014 (MS 27800)

Joseph Holbrook autobiography and journal, circa 1860–1871 (MS 17148)

Thomas W. Ellerbeck diary, 1852 December–1853 December (MS 1418)

Theodore Turley family memorial, 1841–1847; 1871 (MS 7983)

Compilation of Heber C. Kimball correspondence, 1983 (MS 7269)

Daniel Davis diaries and papers, 1846–1884 (MS 2840)

Kelvin R. Folsom mission papers, 1958–1961 (MS 27697)

Isaac M. Stewart Emigrating Company journal, 1852 June–September (MS 20817)

Eli Chase autobiography, circa 1850 (MS 11346)

History of Pioneer Days, circa 1933 (MS 11823)

Chauncey W. West diary, 1847 June–September (MS 14532)

Charles H. Bridges journal, circa 1867–1905 (MS 14570)

Susannah H. Mitchell diary, 1854 May–August (MS 18963)

Map of Fillmore, Utah, circa 1900 (MS 11605)

Hans P. Larsen autobiographical sketch, 1928 (MS 11310)

Photograph and Map Collections

Erection of the Hill Cumorah monument, circa 1935 (PH 1528)

Alfred W. and Elizabeth C. McCune family photographs, circa 1880–1922, 1950 (PH 6150)

Young family and Stewart family photographs, 1870–1989 (PH 11881)

City Creek aqueduct, circa 1875 (PH 1742)

New York World’s Fair Mormon Pavilion press photograph, 1965 (PH 11126)

Jon Huntsman Sr., Lyndon B. Johnson, and Lady Bird Johnson photograph, 1964 (PH 11871)

John Evans and Henry Tingey, circa 1880 (PH 4494)

Eagle Gate photograph, circa 1880 (PH 10599)

J. D. Lee in coffin, 1877 (PH 10955)

Huffman family photograph collection, 1927–1947 (PH 8904)

Roger W. Gull mission album, 1957 (PH 9046)

Arizona Temple photographs, circa 1950–1960 (PH 5854)

Joinville Branch meetinghouse, circa 1930–1932 (PH 768)

Print and Rare Collections

The Early history, rise and progress of Mormonism (M209 E12 1858)

Historical collections of the state of New York: containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c. relating to its history and antiquities with geographical description of every township in the state (974.7 B234h)

Topographical sketch of the gold & quicksilver district of California, July 25th, 1848 [map] / E.O.C.O. (912.794 O65t 1848)

The Evening and the Morning Star (M205.1 E92 1832–1833)

[Letter to President Wilford Woodruff] (M256 Y689 1890)

Mormons and Mormonism: why they have been opposed, maligned and persecuted—inside history of the present anti-Mormon crusade / by a non-Mormon, ten years in Utah (M200 E47m 1899a)

Harrison’s grand moving panorama (M273 H318 1871)