Guide to Women's Manuscript Collections

Browsing 101–150 of 660
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Dagmar, Louise Victoria Alexandra, Duchess of Fife This collection consists of a guest book for Mar Lodge, the home of the Duke and Duchess of Fife. The guest book is a large bound volume with these words printed in gold on the cover: 'Visitors Bo...
Dillman, Mildred This collection of items is divided into three boxes, within which, the papers are categorized into various folders, according to date and content. Many of the folders contain letters of ...
Berry, Isabelle Maria Harris Merrill Nelson Isabelle's biography is part of a collection of Harris family biographies. The collection was donated by Belle Harris and contains pedigree charts and biographies of Isabelle's parents, siblings, ...
Olson, Anna Persson This collection contains several biographies written by Callie O. Morley. Anna is mentioned in her son's biography, 'History of John Olson.' The biography is 14 pages long; however, Anna is only ...
Olson, Myra Elizabeth Henrie This collection contains several biographies written by Callie O. Morley. Myra is mentioned in her husband's 14-page biography, 'History of John Olson.' The biography focuses largely on John's li...
Hayward, Ruth Hughes The information about Ruth's life is contained in 'Family Life Stories: William George Baker,' a family history compiled by Ruth Baker Thompson. The man mentioned in the title of the history, Willi...
Spencer, Clarissa Young This collection contains Clarissa Young Spencer's composition book containing holographs of poems, essays, and journal entries beginning in 1876. The composition book is entitled, 'Patterson's Com...
Tyler, Jan L. Photocopy of a typewritten speech given by Jan Tyler at Brigham Young University in December 1977. It is eight pages long and was presented during Women's Awareness Week. Tyler repo...
Larsen, Martha Geneva Day The collection consists of three notebooks written by Martha Geneva Day between 1906 and 1963. The first notebook, written from January 1906 to August 1939, contains histories of her ancestors ...
Holbrook, Eunice Dunning Eunice's brief biography is written by Alsina Elizabeth Brimhall Holbrook, the wife of Lafayette Hinckley Holbrook, grandson of Chandler and Eunice Holbrook. The information included in this biogr...
Hill, Virginia Ann Christopherson Virginia's autobiography is 6 typed pages with pictures pasted throughout. Included in the folder are brief biographies Virginia wrote about her husband, her children, and her grandparents. Also ...
Smith, Betsy Williamson Betsy's history, written by her youngest son Don Smith, is included in the Smith Family Genealogy Collection. Also included is the Smith Family History which dates back to Robert Smith who came to...
Humphries, Verna Durrant Verna's memoirs are nestled within her book written about her father William R. Durrant and her uncle Walter Durrant, entitled, 'Ada's Children.' The book is bound and 141 typed pages in length wi...
Molyneux, Elvira McCarty This collection is a reproduction of Joel Molyneux's diary and letters written while serving in the Union army during the Civil War. It is 143 pages typed. The first two pages are photocopied pic...
Girod, Therese Morel The marriage contract for Therese and John and the receipt of funds are part of a large collection of Bunot Family Papers. There are fifty folders in the collection, two of which contain materials...
Rawlinson, Eliza Lucina Moore Eliza's memoirs are found within the history she wrote in 1962 as a tribute to her mother Almeda Harmon Moore. Also included in the collection are other histories Eliza wrote about her ancestors: ...
Schugk, Virginia Dixon Virginia's paper collection includes a tribute to Virginia written by her daughter, a personal record about her tour of Europe, and a personal history. Also included are copies of many family pape...
Rock, Elsie May Holgate Elsie's personal history was written in 1978 for the Women's History Archives request. As a child, Elsie 'loved the Lord' and enjoyed singing in the church choir where she performed 'Olivet to Cal...
Roberts, Mary Adeline Ensign Mary's biography was written by her granddaughter Marjorie Ricks Romrell on June 19, 1937 in Sugar City, Idaho. There is little information about Mary's childhood and more about her later life. W...
Chamberlain, Mary Elizabeth Woolley Mary Chamberlain's autobiography is hardbound with typescript pages, making it easy to read and follow. The contents are memories, so at times the writing jumps and rambles, but her...
Larson, Elna Olsson Malmstrom This collection contains a ten-page biography (in book of remembrance form), photos, charts, and brief sketches. The photos are excellent reproductions of the original. The biography focuses on...
Rich, Mary Ann Elizabeth Stokes Mary's biography was most likely written by Ellen R. Clark, a daughter. It is included in the Rich family history collection. Mary suffered and endured many hardships of the early pioneers. Whil...
Lyman, Eliza Maria Partridge This collection contains the 112-page photocopy of a typescript of Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman's diary. The diary begins with a brief autobiography and then recounts some of Eliza's experiences as...
Rogers, Alison Jensen Alison's 6 page typewritten history and other papers were submitted for the Women's History Archives request to the Relief Society around December 1977. The collection is 21 pages and includes cop...
Smith, Angeline D. Stamps This collection contains 4 holographs of letters written by or pertaining to the Smith family. The first letter is written in 1842 to Ms. Angeline Smith from Lewis Jones. Lewis Jones informs Ange...
Petersen, Mary Mortensen The history of Mary and Niels Petersen was written by their son Joseph Lorenzo Petersen. The biography is 19 typed pages. After her marriage and settlement in Arizona, the family raised cows and ...
Barney, Elvira Stevens This collection consists of a two-page biography of Elvira, a short note from Emmeline B. Wells dated 1892, a cousin's calling card, an invitation, a pale green lace ribbon, and a love letter to El...
Brimhall, Flora Robertson This collection consists of a seven-page, typewritten autobiography, which Flora dictated to Minnie I. Hodapp on August 31, 1938. The autobiography begins with background on Flora's parents. Flor...
Mickelsen, Laura Ingemann Laura's biography is a three-page typewritten document included in a collection entitled 'Early Recollections of Logan.' The author, Joel Ricks, interviewed early settlers of Logan and compiled th...
Mitchell, Elizabeth Ann Blyth The history is twelve pages long and legibly handwritten except in a few places where the print has faded making it difficult to read. It was written by Elizabeth's daughter Pear M. Boyce and dated...
Boice, Louisa Marshall This collection contains items relating to Louisa and to her mother, Sarah Goode Marshall. There is some discrepancy between the authors of the collection as to Louisa's first name. In the autobi...
Harris, Ida May This biography is part of a collection of biographies on the Harris family, and includes a biography of each of Charles and Louisa Harris' children written by their siblings. Ida's biography was w...
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria This collection contains holograph copies of official declarations and decrees relating to Maria Theresa's accession to the throne of Austria in 1740 and her taking over full control of the governm...
Larson, Lorentina Olivia Anderson Eklund This collection contains a ten-page biography (in book of remembrance form), photos, charts, and brief sketches. The photos are excellent reproductions of the original. The biography focuses on...
Burgess, Mariah Pulsipher Mariah's biography is a five-page, typewritten document contained in a collection of biographies from the Huntington Chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Her biography was written by a grand...
Washburn, Flora Clarinda Gleason Johnson Flora's nine-page, typewritten biography was authored by her daughter Lorena Eugenia Washburn Larsen. Included in the collection is a biography of Abraham's first wife, Tamar, which was also writt...
Bushman, Lois Angeline Smith The biography of Lois Angeline Smith Bushman was written in 1937 by Lois' daughter, Maria Elizabeth Bushman Smith. It is typewritten and is 35 pages long. Maria states the various sources she use...
Dusenberry, Ida Smoot The Ida Smoot Dusenberry papers are found in one box containing thirteen folders. Articles found in the collection include: short biographies about her; correspondence from family, sc...
Cheney, Eliza Ann Beebe This collection of Cheney Family Papers was donated to the Harold B. Lee Library by Edith C. Clay. It contains four biographies of Eliza and Nathan and transcripts of several letters written by El...
Durfee, Jane Isabella Barker This collection includes a letter, a biography of Jane, a partial autobiography, and a newspaper clipping. The letter in the collection was written by Marilyn Elison to BYU Librarian LeGrand L. Ba...
Lott, Elsie Moore This collection consists of a 34-page typewritten manuscript entitled 'History of My Father, Stephen Bliss Moore, and My Mother, Eleanor Colton Moore: Pioneers and Children of Pioneers.' It was wr...
Barker, Ann Morris Ann's biography was written by her great granddaughter, Hazel Barker Bott, in July of 1969. It was then typed by Arola B. McDonald and included in the collection entitled, 'The Family of Alfred Gr...
Barker, Ann Greenall Ann's brief, typed biography was written by her granddaughter Ethel A. Dobson and is included in the Barker Family Biographies. She was described by her granddaughter as 'a most wonderful gentlewo...
Nixon, Mary Moore Barker Mary's brief biography is included in the Barker Family Biographies compiled by Hazel B. Bott about 1969. Mary's biography is written by her daughter, Mary Barker Edwards. Pictures of Mary are al...
Bieler, Itha J. Galbraith This collection includes 151 typed pages written by both Itha and her husband Paul. The manuscript is bound in book form and includes an alphabetical index. Included are both Itha and Paul's ance...
Larson, May Louise Hunt This collection consists of ten folders containing May's diary and biography, a book of birthdays in Snowflake Stake, a history of Snowflake Stake Academy, a biography of Emma Hale Smith, and t...
Hiatt, Mertie Adell Harris Mertie's autobiography is included in the family papers of her parents, Charles Harris and Louisa Marie Hall Harris. There is a brief history of Emer Harris, Mertie's grandfather, who was a brothe...
Lindsay, Mary Alice Powell This collection contains Mary's autobiography, her nomination form for Mother of the Year, and tributes and letters corresponding to this nomination. Also included are family pictures, brief biogr...
Karkkainen, Anna Augusta Karhu Anna's autobiography is 6 typewritten pages in Finnish. Included is a 'Henkilohistoria' which is a record of important dates in Anna's life....
Smith, Julia Ann Restel Winter This collection contains three similar biographies of Julia Ann Restel Winter Smith (Box 6, Folder 1). Found in the bound book entitled 'Family Biographies' by Ruby Kate Smith, a daughter of Julia...