Abstract This collection was found in the attic of the Chapel of the Flowers Mortuary in Ogden, Utah. The papers were stuffed in an old leather satchel. The collection consists of numerous poems, a small number of articles, a number of news clippings, and two letters.The words “H. E. Prall, Prairie Poet” are handwritten on many of the manuscript items. There are also news clippings of a column of “Open Forum by H. E. Prall.” The clippings are undated; however, some of them are...

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Correspondence to and from Harman W. Peery, who served five terms as mayor of Ogden, Utah in the 1930s and 1940s. Includes letters from Barzilla W. Clark, governor of Idaho, 1937, and M.H. McIntyre, Assistant Secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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The collection consists of Helen Hinckley (Jones)’ notes relating to biography, found in a copy of “Eminent Victorians” by Lytton Strachey, biographical sketches of Theodore Judah and Helen Hinckley (Jones), printer’s proof of “Rails from the West”, and a biographical account of Theodore Judah, and an uncorrected proof of “A Wall and Three Willows” by Najmeh Najafi, recounting experiences in Iran.

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The collection contains retained carbon copies of correspondence sent by Congressman Dixon while serving in Congress during the years 1957-1958. It also containes some in-coming correspondence and correspondence of Laurence Burton's, who served as Dixon's Legislative Assistant during the years, 1957-1958. The collection was received in 1971 from Laurence Burton.

Abstract The Hinckley family business papers were donated to the Weber State University Library Special Collections Department, shortly after the death of John S. Hinckley in 1990 by Robert H. Hinckley, Jr.. Processing began in the summer of 1996 and was completed in March 1997 by Steven R. Wood. Papers were organized into series, foldered and boxed in archival storage containers. Duplicate documents and incidental publications have been...

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This collection contains various newspaper clippings, pamphlets and memorabilia related to church history.

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The contents of this collection consist of a newspaper photograph from The Ben Lomond Beacon>, Feb. 2, 1978, of Washington Blvd. with the Wheelwright Lumber Co.; a newspaper clipping of Wheelwright family history; six photographs taken May 1977 of Hyrum B. and Ruby Wheelwright, Craige Hall, and Martie Collett.

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The Ira Owen Horsfall Collection contains correspondence to Ira Owen Horsfall of Salt Lake City in the years preceding, during, and following his mission for the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The correspondence are from his family and friends during the years of March 1900 and February 1902 through December 1913. This collection also contains newspaper clippings, a few photographs, and Horsfall’s grades from the University of Utah.

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This collection contains two photographs of Joaquin Miller, one dated 1882.

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Letter written in Ogden City and dated October 13, 1872, from James L. Dee to John J. Taggart

concerning dissolved business owned by Dee and another partner.