Recently Digitized Collections, January 2022

By Jeffrey Tucker, Church History Library

25 January 2022

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

Below, you’ll find January’s list of recently digitized materials to explore in the Church History Catalog, such as a collection of statistics taken from the Scandinavian Mission between 1850 and 1930. Many Saints trace their ancestry back to Scandinavia, making this collection an excellent resource for family and Church historians.

All the following collections feature one or more items that have been digitized and are available for viewing online. For some collections, login may be required for access.

Church Record Collections

Scandinavian Mission statistics, 1850–1930 (CR 100 61)

Local Record Collections

Millbrae 2nd Ward annual historical reports, 1982–1983 (LR 158674 3)

South Weymouth Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1959–1983 (LR 3817 2)

Hyrum Ward general minutes, 1877–1901 (LR 4009 11)

Alloa Branch groundbreaking program, 1991 February 16 (LR 8701 21)

Morrilton Branch annual historical reports, 1978–1981 (LR 17980 3)

Salt Lake Stake Relief Society minutes and records, 1882–1973 (LR 604 14)

Belfast Branch general minutes, 1868–1960 (LR 615 11)

Provo Utah Central Stake manuscript history and historical reports, 1849–1977 (LR 9629 2)

Hurstville Ward general minutes, 1932–1976 (LR 3984 11)

Netherlands Mission scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1902–1960 (LR 6007 22)

East Brunswick Ward manuscript history and historical reports, 1933–1983 (LR 6021 2)

Pottawattamie High Priests Quorum minutes, 1848–1851 (LR 1764 22)

Manuscript Collections

Elizabeth H. Kingsford autobiographical sketch, undated (MS 11796)

Loren G. Baxter mission papers, 1961–1963 (MS 27952)

John W. Tate papers, 1881–1914 (MS 30587)

Paul H. Kelly papers, 1967–2003 (MS 19816)

George H. Risenmay journal, 1927–1965 (MS 30984)

William B. Wright collection, 1852–1951 (MS 19232)

K. Erich Bernhardt interview, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003 October 30 (MS 18795)

John S. Fullmer journal and letterbook, 1836–1881 (MS 117)

Washington D.C. Chapel, 1930 August (MS 22074)

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

William Wood Jr. mission journals, 1885–1888 (MS 30228)

William Henderson autobiographical sketch, 1929 (MS 12755)

Mark A. Coffey mission papers, 1979–1981 (MS 28782)

Don Carlos Smith letters, Nauvoo, Illinois, to Oliver Granger, Kirtland, Ohio, 1841 (MS 7043)

Effie F. Hamberlin Hardman Bonebrake collection, circa 1900–1998 (MS 16535)

Benjamin F. Blaylock papers, 1881–1929 (MS 23436)

John M. Bernhisel papers, 1818–1872 (MS 370)

Samuel Openshaw papers, 1882 and circa 1885 (MS 7095)

Malissa Willes affidavit, 1893 August 4 (MS 29468)

Robert Donigan research paper collection, 1922–2015 (MS 30042)

Elizabeth B. Tanner autobiography, circa 1840 (MS 10843)

Maria B. Francis autograph album, 1919 February 25 (MS 10725)

Elizabeth H. Goddard autograph book, 1879 (MS 3808 3)

William H. Walker journal, 1852 August–1853 November (MS 16795)

Photograph and Map Collections

Photographs of a Nauvoo Temple model, circa 1990s (PH 8429)

Heber J. Grant family photographs, circa 1856–1858, 1906 (PH 3937)

Brazilian Mission presidents and missionaries, 1938–1940 (PH 4372)

Pingree family charcoal portraits, undated (PH 10274)

European Mission photograph albums, 1946 (PH 5271)

George F. Richards portrait collection, 1899–1948 (PH 5397)

Taylor, Arizona, ward meetinghouse and members, 1900 (PH 4168)

General Authority portrait collection, circa 1850–1985 (PH 700)

Map of Utah and Colorado prepared by order of Lieut. Genl. W.T. Sherman [map]/drawn by H. De Werthen (917.8 D516m 1869)

Slater family portraits, circa 1860s (PH 4928)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox at Saltair, 1903 (PH 655)

Statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, 1911 (PH 855)

Daniel G. Shupe photographs, circa 1922–1939 (PH 119)

Portrait of Heber C. Kimball, circa 1930s (PH 1700 1796)

Print and Rare Collections

El evangelio y los himnos / Humberto Meza Méndez (M285 M617SPAm 2012)

General epistle from the Council of the Twelve Apostles, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints abroad, dispersed throughout the earth, greeting (M273.4 C855g 1848b)

Dedication program, December 19, 1965, South Cottonwood Stake, South Cottonwood Sixth and Eighth Wards (M255.83 S727)

British Mission teaching plan (M256.4 B862br)

Plain facts for students of the Book of Mormon, with a map of the promised land (M222.091 P698 1886)

The case against the theory of organic evolution (575 D515c)

A call to the women of the Church / The First Presidency (M241.2 F527c)

The revelation monument building on Temple Square in Salt Lake City / a proposal by Steven G. Covey (M282.2 C873r 1960)

The highest goal of education (M247.4 R518h)

The Semi-weekly telegraph (071.9225 S471t v. 1–6 1864–1870)

Verses lovingly inscribed to President Bathsheba W. Smith/ by Emmeline B. Wells (M288.1 W453v 190–?)

To Aunt Em (Emmeline B. Wells) / Josephine Spencer (M288.1 S7455t 191–?)

Progress (M288.1 W453p 1904)

Across the continent / by Jenny June (M230 C944a 1887)

Bible answers to modern questions. No. 1 (M230 W641b no. 1)

Bible answers to modern questions. No. 2 (M230 W641b no. 2)

Bible answers to modern questions. No. 3 (M230 W641b no. 3)

A special conference of the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, asssembled [sic] in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake Citg [sic], August 28th, 1852, 10 o’clock. A.M. pursuant to p… (M204.1 S741 1852)

Turn on the light!!: the recognized Church of Jesus Christ of Later [sic] day Saints denies the statements made by Mrs. D.B. Wells in her lecture at Y.W.C.A. bldg (M290 T942 1902?)