Item Detail
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17579
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1
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0
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English
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Diary
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Trails of Hope (Internet Database)
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Provo, UT
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Utah Academic Library Consortium
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"Typescript coverage: 1877-83, 1881-83, 1890, 1900-02, 1904-31. Holograph covers 1881-83, 1900-01. Living at Payson City, 1877. Attended school. Watermaster over ditch. Farm work. Dates with Lily Huish. Elders meeting. Stake conference. Patriarchal blessing. Voted for first time in life. Wrote patriarchal blessings as scribe. To Philomathean Society; was appointed editor. Started painting, 1877. Married. Two children by 1880. Mission to southern states, 1880-83. Learned of birth of son, 1881. Resolutions to improve. Baptisms. Opposition. Healings. Released from mission, September 1883. Gap: 1884-89. Preparation [p.104] for trip to Paris, 1890. Worked on portrait. Kissed wife and children goodbye. Traveling companions: Lorus Pratt, J. Hafen. To New York. Visited Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bought photography equipment. Diary stops with landing at Liverpool. Gap: 1891-99. Diary of BYU [Lee Library] exploration expedition in Latin America, 1900-02. At Cochise County, Arizona. July 1900. Visit from President Joseph F. Smith. Church sponsorship withdrawn; company, smaller in size, proceeded at own expense. Author second counselor. Sketches. Photographs. Into Mexico. Visited Mormons there. Letters from home. Hunting. White Indians. Scenery. Camps at Palenque and Chiapas. Visits to ruins. Lost one of diaries. List of photographs by number. Oil sketches. Preparations for return home, October 1901. To New York. Copied pictures in Metropolitan. Returned to Utah by early 1902. Summary of activities, sometimes in third person (probably by wife), 1904-31. Moved to Canada, 1904. Photograph gallery. Raised grain. To New York about 1906. Copied paintings on order. To Utah about 1908. Bill to have purchasing fund of $1,000 for paintings. Another trip to France (no details). Studio and exhibition at Old Social Hall with sons Avard and Leo, 1914. Failed to get commission for state capitol. To Zion's Canyon, 1917. Romance with Florence Gifford led to marriage. Births of five children. Moved to Spring Dale, Also record of South American trip by Mrs. Fairbanks: a brief, autobiographical statement entitled "The Art Career of J.B. Fairbanks," and description of paintings executed by author and his sons for exhibit at Chicago World Fair." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies, 1977]