Passport, 1937

File — Box: 2, Folder: 12

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series consists of Pyper's personal documents as well as some documents relating to his wife, Emmaretta, and his parents, Alexander and Christiana Pyper. Pyper's personal correspondence is located in box 1, folders 1-9. Biographical information on Pyper and his wife is included in box 2. Other family materials are located in box 9. Of interest are diary entries written by Christiana Pyper concerning the LDS Church exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, located in box 9, folders 13-14. A record of marriages performed by Pyper as a Salt Lake City judge from 1883 to 1887 can be found in box 2, folder 11. Mining deeds, notes on the Lion House (one-time home of Brigham Young), poetry, and news articles collected by Pyper are in boxes 2, folders 16-19 and box 3. Some of the talks and sermons in box 5 were given as radio broadcasts. The scrapbook in box 7 contains news clippings only, many of which concern Pyper as police judge. The scrapbook in box 8 was found in a disassembled state and contains invitations, passes to events, programs, and information on the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Several of these items concern an Ida M. Savage. Her relationship to Pyper, if any, is unknown.

Dates

1937

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.