Recently Digitized Collections, February 2022

By Jeffrey Tucker, Church History Library

22 February 2022

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

Below, you’ll find February’s list of recently digitized materials to explore in the Church History Catalog, such as “A Purse of Gold,” an account of how a kind stranger in Philadelphia helped Orson Hyde—who was traveling without purse or scrip—reach the Holy Land in 1840. The man who funded Orson’s voyage eventually joined the Church and traveled as a pioneer to Utah, where he and his wife raised 14 children in the city of Spanish Fork.

All 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.

Church Record Collections

Saint George Temple papers, circa 1871–1882 (CR 343 79)

Local Record Collections

Malad Idaho Stake general minutes, 1888–1928, 1960–1977 (LR 5190 11)

Washington Stake manuscript history and historical reports, 1940–1977 (LR 9929 2)

McKay Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1939–1983 (LR 5380 2)

Turkish Mission manuscript history and historical reports, 1884–1951 (LR 14250 2)

Manuscript Collections

Poundkeeper's Office (Salt Lake Precinct) records, 1853–1854 (MS 14946)

Mary Ellen H. Kimball history and journal, 1895, 1857–1863 (MS 4218)

A purse of gold, undated (MS 6462)

Truman Leonard diary, 1886 May–July (MS 6212)

Minerva J. Stone letter, Hamden, Connecticut, to Elisha H. Davis, 1846 January (MS 9382)

Land grant to John H. Tippets, 1872 (MS 9171)

Levi A. Carter mission journal, 1904 (MS 33444)

Aunt Emm, circa 1913 (MS 5523)

Autograph album, 1874–1894 (MS 14258)

Obituary of Emmeline B. Wells, 1921 (MS 12537)

Clarissa S. Williams address, 1921 (MS 5985)

The Fact that I knew President Emmeline B. Wells, undated (MS 769)

Francis M. Lyman address, 1896 June 6 (MS 7739)

Aurora M. Jones journal, 1977 June–1987 January (MS 14099)

Lawrence Faria Church history collection, 1838, 1842–1843, 2009 (MS 27455)

Karl G. Maeser lecture, 1879 March 24 (MS 7538)

Nathan Tanner address, undated (MS 2815)

Hugh W. Findlay diary, 1892 December–1894 October (MS 5196)

Heber J. Grant letter of appreciation to Louie B. Felt, circa 1925 (MS 5255)

Utah Territory census schedules, 1850–1860, 1870 (MS 9234)

Abraham Palmer letter, Springfield, Illinois to William Taylor, Ogdensburgh, New York, 1839 (MS 9464)

Marinda N. Johnson Hyde papers, 1849 and 1876 (MS 716)

Women’s Suffrage Association (Farmington, Utah) minutes, 1892–1895 (MS 2621)

Joseph S. Tanner reminiscences, circa 1907 (MS 2635)

Alfred Cordon journal, 1839–1840 (MS 9856)

Grant Family papers, 1844–1893 (MS 3370)

Sons and Daughters of the Pima Pioneers minute book, 1923–1926 (MS 3176)

The history and travels of Zion’s Camp, 1882 (MS 1193)

Jesse N. Smith Family Association papers, 1904–1966 (MS 15864)

Minutes and transcript of the speeches of the Rich Reunion, 1909 (MS 295)

Jane B. Johnson autograph book, 1881–1902 (MS 18295)

Peder Madsen diary, 1856 April–September (MS 1451)

Biography of George Spencer, circa 1980 (MS 10132)

Madona F. Rogers journal, 1877 January–1879 June (MS 9549)

Ulrich Buehler biographical sketch, circa 1946 (MS 12304)

Colonial days, undated (MS 5739)

Minerva W. Hickman reminiscences, circa 1892–1900 (MS 9104)

W. W. Phelps letters to Reuben Miller, Burlington, Wisconsin, 1847 (MS 15328)

An original register of names of some travelers crossing the Arizona/Utah border by way of Lee’s Ferry recorded at Houserock Spring, 1870s–1880s, 1989 (MS 12339)

Thomas Hunt diary, 1848 November–1854 April (MS 8177)

William L. Allred diary, 1886 January–December (MS 9075)

Southern States Mission papers, 1924 September–1926 December (MS 13706)

Harry J. Talbot reminiscences of life in South Africa, circa 1910 (MS 11423)

Levi S. Waldron diary, 1878 January–1933 July (MS 2760)

John Robinson journal, 1852 May–1859 September (MS 8881)

Information copied from the journal of Anson Call, 1879 (MS 4783)

Young Men’s Democratic Club minute book, 1881–1892 (MS 3553)

India correspondence, 1915–1916; 1927 (MS 16598)

Olaf H. Nielsen reminiscences and journals, circa 1875–1897, 1963 (MS 7645)

Orrin Porter Rockwell, circa 1920 (MS 11894)

John H. Ford journals, 1896 October–1898 August (MS 17115)

Emily P. Parrish journals, 1899–1901, circa 1920–1930 (MS 7486)

Joseph Banks reminiscences, circa 1886 (MS 5706)

L. Gordon Hobbs mission papers, 1940–1942, 1944 (MS 31326)

Orson Pratt letters, 1856–1869 (MS 4728)

Early history of Glenwood, Sevier County, Utah, undated (MS 5713)

Harriet B. Heath autobiography, 1924 (MS 31560)

Richard Brenchley record of baptisms, 1886–1912 (MS 8307)

Samuel E. Gustaveson diary, 1899 July–1902 March (MS 1506)

A history of Alexander Leatham, circa 1930 (MS 9238)

Utah Territory constitutional convention papers, 1856 (MS 2988)

Taggart family papers, 1886, circa 1970 (MS 1185)

Joseph H. Richards autobiography and family history, 1923 (MS 11323)

Emma P. Camomile poems, 1896–1898 (MS 24013)

John F. Conley diary, 1895 November–1896 June (MS 4844)

Benjamin Boyce history, circa 1845 (MS 21306)

Hulda C. Thurston Smith autobiography and diary, 1925–1930 (MS 15394)

History of Mary Ann Elizabeth Watmough, circa 1936 (MS 11786)

Photograph and Map Collections

Owen T. Bringhurst photograph album, 1925–1926 (PH 3723)

Print and Rare Collections

Liahona (Chinese): Hong Kong (M205.5 S546CHI v. 1- 1959-)

The earliest branches of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the province of Upper Canada (1832–1844) and of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the same area (1862–1888), 1952 (M277.1 W299e)

Circular. To Bishop Edward Hunter, and the bishops throughout the territory (M273.41 F527c 1861?)