Volume One DVDs 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.
This collection contains 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 the writings of President Joseph F. Smith.
Also included are collections such as the early writings of Lorenzo Snow in England; records of apostle Charles C. Rich, commander of the Nauvoo Legion and colonizer of San Bernardino, California; the diaries of apostle and scientist Orson Pratt; the journals of J. Golden Kimball; and papers of George A. Smith, Willard Richards, Franklin D. Richards, Amasa Lyman, Erastus Snow, and James G. Bleak.
The Manuscript History is also found in this set. In addition to general minutes, these DVDs make available organizational documents from the Kirtland period and from the Nauvoo Relief Society, early High Councils, and architectural drawings for the Nauvoo and Salt Lake Temples.
Volume Two DVDs 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.
