Selected Church History Manuscript Collections

These collections contain many pages of manuscripts from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, scanned in full color at high resolution. Academic libraries and serious researchers will find this publication unparalleled and unprecedented.

Included are about 4,000 pages from the papers of Joseph Smith, founding prophet of the Church; the Revelations collection; 34,000 pages of letters and typescripts of Brigham Young correspondence; as well as thousands of pages from other selected items in the Church archives.

• Joseph Smith Collection, 1827–1844
• Brigham Young Letterpress Copybooks, 1844–1879
• Church Historian's Office. General Church Minutes, 1839–1877
• Church Architect's Office. Salt Lake Temple Architectural Drawings, 1853–1893
• William Weeks. Nauvoo Architectural Drawings, circa 1841–1846 - (MS 11500)