Utah Gospel Mission records and photographs
Collection Organization
The Utah Gospel Mission Collection presents a valuable documentary source on a religious/missionary organization of the early twentieth century, as well as providing a glimpse into the anti-Mormon sentiments of the general Christian community and the career of a missionary in the field.
The personal correspondence in the Collection, while giving little substantial insight on the UGM itself, illustrates the thoughts and fears of a man, J.D. Nutting, who had devoted his entire life to anti-Mormon missionary work. The bulk of the printed works in the Collection are influenced by his writings in the annual reports and many of the pamphlets. His control over the decisions and operations of the Mission was undoubtedly considerable. The letters to his son, J. Morley, provide a private view of many of the controversies of the 1940's, such as the Moody Institute problem and the discontent among the field missionaries in 1942.
The photographic component of the Collection has a value on two different levels. The most direct use is as visual documentation of the operation of the Mission. Many of the photos in the Collection were used as illustrations in the annual reports, particularly views of the Missionaries at work. Taken on a more objective level, the photographs provide examples of architecture, families, clothing, social and religious life, and material culture. While many of the images have little or no identification, they still provide glimpses into daily life in Utah and Idaho small towns. Arrangement of the slides, negatives, and prints is based loosely on some dated photographs, internal evidence, and similarity between images. In most cases the dates given are not certain, ranging from 1895 through 1940.
Correspondence, 1937-1944, undated
UTAH GOSPEL MISSION. BOARD OF TRUSTEES CORRESPONDENCE;
1937, 1941, 1942, 1944;
arranged chronologically.
Includes general notices of future meetings, with some mention of agenda.
J.D. NUTTING CORRESPONDENCE;
1937, 1941, 1942, undated;
arranged chronologically.
Mostly outgoing, primarily to son, J. Morley Nutting, from the field, detailing travels, work relations with other missionaries, the "Moody Institute" controversy, and family matters; with one reply from J. Morley.
- Dates
- Creation: 1937-1944, undated
- Extent
- 2 Folders
Correspondence-Utah Gospel Mission Board, 1937-1944
- Dates
- Creation: 1937-1944
Correspondence-J.D. Nutting, 1937-1942, undated
- Dates
- Creation: 1937-1942, undated
Reports, 1910-1943
UTAH GOSPEL MISSION ANNUAL REPORTS; 1910, 1913, 1915, 1917-1918, 1929-1931, 1933-1937, 1939-1943; arranged chronologically. Includes summary of missionary activity for the year, publications issued, speaking/fundraising activities, and expenses. Cumulative statistical summaries of field work and finances; lists of Officers, members of the Board of Trustees, and the Advisory Committee.
- Dates
- Creation: 1910-1943
- Extent
- 1 Folders
Annual reports-Utah Gospel Mission, 1910-1943
- Dates
- Creation: 1910-1943
Literary productions, undated
RESEARCH NOTES; Undated; Handwritten notes (possibly written by J.D. Nutting) with page references and quotations for sermons or pamphlets; lists of Palestine negatives (for presentations?); lists of bibliographic sources on Mormon topics at Chicago Public Library, Newberry Library, and Berrien College.
- Dates
- Creation: undated
- Extent
- 1 Folders
Research notes, undated
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Printed material, 1900-1952
PAMPHLETS; 1900-1952; arranged by subject, and within, chronologically. Pamphlets and leaflets, mostly published by the Utah Gospel Mission. Generally, the subject matter deals either with fundraising and membership support for the Mission work, or with doctrinal controversies of Mormon theology. Many of the texts were written or edited by J.D. Nutting. Also included are circulars or publicity material for press distribution, and tickets to a lantern-slide presentation.
- Dates
- Creation: 1900-1952
- Extent
- 2 Folders
Pamphlets-Religious subject matter, 1900-1952
- Dates
- Creation: 1900-1952
Pamphlets-Utah Gospel Mission subject matter, 1902-1945, undated
- Dates
- Creation: 1902-1945, undated
Photographic materials, circa 1895-1940
POSITIVE TRANSPARENCIES;
c.1889-1915;
arranged by subject.
Glass lantern slides used for presentations made by the wagon missionaries. Topics include Biblical and ancient history, temperance, patriotic themes, and travelogues.
NEGATIVES;
c. 1895-1940;
rough chronological arrangement.
Glass plate negatives, with a few nitrate and safety film negatives. Photographed by the Utah Gospel Mission wagon missionaries in the West (primarily in Utah and Idaho.)
POSITIVE PRINTS;
c. 1893-1940;
rough chronological arrangement.
Contemporary enlargements and contact study prints from selected negatives in the collection. Prints were made by an unknown party. A link is made between the print and the negative in the collection by the negative group and item number written on the verso of the print. (There is no corresponding reference from the negative to the print.) Subjects include views of local scenery, churches, schoolrooms, houses, local industry, family groups, and the wagon missionaries with their equipment.
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1895-1940
- Extent
- 5.98 Cubic Feet (13 archive boxes)
Positive transparencies
Group I - Ancient History
Royal mummies in the museum at Boolak
Rosetta stone
Archimedes crater in the Lunar Apennines
"They all with one accord began to make excuse"
Lighthouse
Lighthouse falling
Woman
Sheep in a valley
Great Hall of Karnak
Group II - Old Testament/Exodus
Passage of the Red Sea
Passage of the Red Sea (negative)
Discord in Jacob's family
Joseph sold into Egypt
Joseph forgiving his brethren
Israel in Egypt
Israel in Egypt (negative)
Joseph ruler in Egypt
Joseph ruler in Egypt (negative)
Moses sent at a deliverer
The Passover instituted
Death of the Firstborn
Group III - Rome
Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
Bridge of St. Angelo and Tomb of Hadrian
Pantheon, Rome
Caesar's army
Regulus, unmoved, departs
Rome
Rome (duplicate slide)
Roman soldiers firing the Temple at Jerusalem
Exterior of the Colosseum, Rome
Interior of the Colosseum, Rome
Ruins in Rome
Relief sculpture on a building
Arch of Titus
Cemetery of Scipio in Rome
Via Appia
Forum in Rome
Lucretia
Cornelia and her jewels
Liberality of the Roman matrons
The transfiguration, by Raphael
Laocoonte, Vatican Gallery
St. Peter's and the Vatican
Group IV - Greece
Female figure
Athena Parthenos
Unidentified statue
Venus de Milo
Greek ruins
Discus thrower
Relief of mother and child
Instruction
Greek girls playing ball
Parthenon restored
Interior of Parthenon from East
Marble shield showing head of Medusa
Western facade of Propylaia
Chair from Theater of Dionysius
Propylaia
Apollo seated
Eastern portico of Parthenon
School of Athens
Interior of Temple of Zeus
Relief from the Parthenon
Greek wrestlers
Theater of Bacchus at base of Acropolis
Athlete statue
Boxer
Apollo Belvidere
Plato and Aristotle
Caryatids
Temple of Jupiter
Acropolis of Athens
Seated Zeus
General view of the Acropolis
Temple at old Corinth
Parthenon, Athens, Greece
General view of Erechtheum, Acropolis
Interior of Parthenon from West gate
Ancient market-place, Athens
Western portico of Parthenon, from above
Fallen columns of the Parthenon
Greek tablet
Eastern facade of Erechtheum, Athens
Group V - Palestine
Hill of Evil Counsel, from the South Wall, Jerusalem
Nablus, Vale of Shechem
Bethlehem, from south-west
Kefr et Tur, the village on the summit of Olivet
Rock tombs north of Jerusalem
Bethany
Platform of the Dome of the Rock
Entrance to the Citadel
Tower of David
Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem
View in Bethlehem
Robinson's Arch, Jerusalem
The village of Taiyibeh
View from Neby Samwil
Hermit's caves in the Cliffs of the Kedron
Sea of Galilee from the Heights of Safed
A peasant's home
Tophet
Aceldama
Dead Sea and Mountains of Moab
Jerusalem from the South
A threshing floor
Ruins on a hill
Mount of Olives
Upper pool of Siloam
Pilgrims of the Greek Church
Mount Quarantania
Valley of the Jordan
Quarries near to Damascus Gate
Garden of Gethsemane
Valley of Hinnom
Jerusalem from Scopus
Group V - Palestine
Street in Damascus
Mount Scopus from St. Stephen`s Gate
Mount of Olives from Mount Zion
Mosque of the Knights of the Crescent
Zion Gate
Ships at Smyrna
Smyrna
Tomb of Polycarp
Pulpit in a church
City of Jerusalem, map
Wailing Wall of the Jews
Plain of El Raha
Jacob's Well
Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
Capharnaum
City and Lake of Tiberias
Group VI - Egypt
Pectoral
Obelisk
Rameses the Great mummy
Bronze tools
Map of Ancient Egypt
Treaty of Peace between Rameses II and Hittites
King's chamber, Pyramid of Cheops
Sarcophagus
Tablet from Tel-El-Amarna
Head of mummy of Mer-En-Re
Pyramid of Zoser
Drawing water
Egyptian tablets
Ruins of Philae
Great Pyramid of Cheops
Harper and choir, from Tello, Arabia, 3000 BC
Antiquities from Thebes
Rameses tomb
Artesian wells
All the Royal mummies in the Gizeh Museum
Statue of Rameses II
Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Amon
Water carriers
"Forced laborers of the Semitic Race"
Stele of Victory, Wady of the Dog River, Berut
Hieratic papyrus of Princess Nasi-Khonsu
Accessions to Haskell Museum
Accessions to Haskell Museum (negative)
Unbaked brick made of Nile mud
Group VII - England
Tintern Abbey
Stonehenge
Conway Castle
Coronation chair - Westminster Castle
Tomb of Queen Elizabeth I, Westminster
Tomb of Black Prince
Iona Cathedral from southwest
Canterbury Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral, London
Tower of London
Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
West Towers, Westminster Abbey
Group VIII - Micronesia
Native church built of coral, Samoa
Bread-fruit
King Malietoa at home
Kusaie
Coral, madrepora aspera, D.
Young man of the Marshall Islands
The fourth Morning Star
Caroline Island warrior
Shells and coral
Moses Kaure and family
Sea anemones
Duplicate of VIII:11
King Malietoa and orator
Duplicate of VIII:13
Lagoon island in Micronesia
Native council house or maneaba, Gilbert Islands
Young warrior, old man, and woman of Marquesa Islands
Gilbert Island warriors
Marshall Island house
Unidentified young man
Unidentified older man
Group of natives in front of grass house
Residence of Malietoa
Native of Niutao worshipping a post
"Morning Star" harbor and Ova, island of Ponape
Samoan duck-duck dancers
Grave of a missionary
Missionary in front of native church
Group of native boys (at a school?)
Duplicate of VIII:29
Native group in front of a church
Unidentified man
Man standing on a native-built dock
Large outrigger
Inside a large native building
Native women in western-style dresses
Man with a beard
Unidentified woman
Group IX - China
Nativity of Confucius
Scene at Kongkeo
Chinese children
Country mission chapel in China
Foochow mission
Chinese pastors
Graduating class of 1895
Chapel at Pan-Chuang, Shantung, China
Interior of a gildhall, Canton
Chinese officials who attended the exercises
Temple of Heaven, Peking
Medical missionary hospital, Fuhchau
Huchau Mission
Nine story pagoda, Canton, China
Map of China
Temple worshipers
Paper money seller
Church in Foochow suburbs
The Cangue in China
Officers of the Christian Endeavor Society, Foochow
Mr. Ling
Mission hospital
A Fox temple by the city wall of Tung-cho
A Chinese idol
A Christian school
Parlor in a private house, Canton
Memorial banners from Tung-cho
Group of workers in Peking
Group X - Europe
Papyrus leaves
Convent of St. Catherine at Sinai
Homer's Iliad, fragments
Archaeologists at work
Clay tablets
Stele of Victory (duplicate of VI:25)
Egyptian tablets
Rosetta stone (duplicate of I:2)
Wycliffe New Testament
Moabite stone tablet
Reading the Bible at home
"That church spire made his neck safe"
Victorious hymn of Merneptah
Stela of Senjirli
Hittite relief sculpture
Cylinder of Cyrus
Lines from Medieval manuscripts
Scribes
Gothic gospels
Syriac and Hebrew manuscripts
Facsimile from the Book of Abraham
Group XI - "Signals for the voyage of life"
Signals for the voyage of life (title slide)
I will fear no evil
Leave me not
Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven
He bringeth them unto their desired haven
The Lord is on my side
Beware, lest thou forget the Lord
Prepare to meet thy God
Put on the whole armour of the Lord
Farewell (end slide)
Group XII - Temperance
Arrival at the "Sickle and Sheaf"
[housed with damaged slides: Box 12]
Slade throws a glass at Joe Morgan and hits Mary
Joe Morgan suffering the horrors of Delirium Tremens
Death of Joe Morgan's little Mary
Frank Slade and Tom Wilkins riding off on a spree
Willie Hammond is induced by Harvey Green to gamble
Harvey Green stabs Willie Hammond to death
Quarrel between Slade and his son Frank
[housed with damaged slides: Box 12]
[housed with damaged slides: Box 12]
Departure from the "Sickle and Sheaf"
The woes of the drunkard
Double exposure of XII:13
Positive slide of XII:13
Group XIII - Patriotic
A Kentucky hand-mill
A flat-boat
Freedom's memorial
Valley Forge
A Continental bill
Proclamation of emancipation
Thomas Lincoln's Bible
Washington's bedroom at Mt. Vernon
David Verplanck house, near Fishkill
Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia
Washington's birthplace
Washington resigning his commission
Abraham Lincoln's school copybook page
U.S. Grant
Negative of XIII:14
Faith monument, Plymouth, Mass.
Group XIV - Turkey and Armenia, 1897
- Dates
- Creation: 1897
Map of the Turkish Empire
American mission at Harpoot, partially destroyed
A village family in Turkey
Turkish soldiers
Monastery of Etchmiadzin
Erzroom
Burial pit at Erzerum
Galata Bridge, Constantinople
Mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople
Interior of St. Sophia, Constantinople
Old Armenian Church of Oorfa
Armenian rebels who would not pay taxes
Instructors and graduates of Anatolia College
Island monastery of Aghtamar, in Lake Van
Mohammedan school boys in holiday attire
Dr. Grace N. Kimball, "the heroine of Van"
Old tower of the school of Edessa, Oorfa
Six children of Mr. Abouhaiatian
Rev. Hagop Abouhaiatian
Kindergarten in Yozgat, Galatia
Armenian tombstone of A.D. 934
Group XV - Miscellaneous Mission programs
The real Mormon issue
Presbyterian Church with buggy (slide of 1905b:8)
Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men, 1 woman) (1909:9)
Temple, Salt Lake City (1912b:6)
Church and school building (1905b:17)
Poster advertising Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men) (1905b:5)
Former Presbyterian Church, Chicago (1905a:10)
Zion Co-Operative Mercantile Institution, Salt Lake City
Large church group picture
Small mountain cascade (1917c:1)
Mountain gorge with ladder
Joseph Smith as Lieut. Gen. of the Nauvoo Legion
Book of Mormon "Reformed Egyptian" text
School group/Mormon primary at Mantua (1905d:11)
Anti-Saloon cartoon
Religious painting of the Nativity
Hymn 48 [text]
School children with American flags (1912b:7)
Church interior (1902:12)
First Presidency and Council of 12 Apostles (1917c:2)
Anchor Silver Mine, near Park City, Utah
Duplicate of XV:22
Group XV - Miscellaneous Mission programs
Wagons in valley by small house (1905d:7)
State Penitentiary in Salt Lake City
Mormon Apostles in Penitentiary
Mother and child inside home, Idaho (1905b:9)
Mormon Temple and Tabernacle, Cardston
Missionaries (3 wagons, 11 men)
Large house
Street in Hyrum, Utah (1905b:11)
Church under construction (1907/08:4)
Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men)
Brigham Young Academy, Provo, Utah
Providence meeting house exterior/interior (1912b:9)
Mormon assembly or meeting
Duplicate of XV:37
Trinity M.E. Church, Logan (1905b:7)
Latter Day Saints Business College (3 bldgs.) (1905a:15)
Children with May Pole (1912b:1)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir (1912b:19)
Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City
House with large stone wall (nd VI:3)
"What shall the harvest be?"
P. wife and children (1905b.:16)
Mormon home (exterior of XV:27)
Mormon Church, Chicago (1915:7)
Similar to XV:48-tinted
Missionaries (1 wagon, 3 men) (1902:9)
Plymouth Church, school children
Teacher with young boys (1912b:9)
Missionaries (3 wagons, 12 men) (1916b:14)
President Joseph F. Smith
New Tithing House, Salt Lake City
Group XV - Miscellaneous Mission programs
Woman standing by geologic "hot pots"
Dirt road with fence by small town (1915:13)
Mormon Tabernacle, Provo
Two wagons in winter (1905d:10)
Building with a flag at street corner (1905d:10)
Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men)
Fragile Group (Cracked, broken, or damaged slides)
Group II - Old Testament
Tablet/Moabite stone
Birkit Israil, the pool of Bethesda
"Higher critic"/"The real faith cure"
Plains of Jericho from the west
Group III - Rome
Orator in the Roman Senate
Group IV - Greece
The Pythia on the tripod
Panorama of Athens from the Pnyx
Group V - Palestine
Jerusalem from Mt. of Olives
Valley of Urtas
Beitin, the ancient Bethel
Pools of Solomon
In the Shepherd's Field, Bethlehem
Ruins on summit of Mt. Gerizim
Jewish cemetery in Valley of Jehosephat
"The Place of a Skull"
Group VI - Egypt
Statue of Dudea, from Tello
Tablets from El-Amarna, b.c. 1450
Tablet of four-hundred years
Egyptian deities
Group IX - China
Williams Hall, North China College
Group X - "How the Bible was made"
Ancient writings
Ancient scrolls
Early New Testament texts
Group XI - "Signals for the voyage of life"
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil
For Thy name's sake lead me and guide me
One earth peace, good will toward men
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee
Group XII - Temperance
Joe Morgan's little Mary begs him to come home (2)
Frank Slade kills his father with a bottle (10)
Meeting of the citizens in the bar-room (11)
Group XIV - Armenia/Turkey
Abd-ul-Hamid Khan
Miscellaneous Mission Programs
Mormon assembly or meeting
Mormon assembly (same as above)
Latter-Day Saints Business College (2 buildings)
Latter-Day Saints Business College/? Stake Academy
Apollo Dance Hall
Joseph Smith Statue
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City
Three Mormon churches (composite)
Hymn 183 "I'll be a little Mormon" [text]
Catechism for children [text]
Mother and child inside home, Idaho
Distant view of Willard, Utah
Salt Lake City view
Polygamous family
Missionaries (3 wagons, 8 men)
Group in front of log house
Wilford Woodruff and George Q. Car---?
House with picket fence, snow
Large family group
Opera house, Oakley, Idaho
Class with rolled diplomas
Class (similar to above)
Grade school class
Two wagons (green tinted slide)
Wagon interior
Mormon meeting house interior/exterior (composite)
Deseret News building, with bunting decoration
Bureau of Information booth
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, poster
P. wife and children
Great Edwin Natural Bridge, Southern Utah
Negatives
Negatives - Nitrates
Missionaries (2 wagons, 1 woman, 3 men), 1920
- Dates
- Creation: 1920
Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 3 wagons, 7 men), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 3 wagons, 10 men), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 7 men by roadside), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 3 wagons, 7 men), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 3 wagons, 6 men), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (8 men by rapids), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (8 men by rapids; similar to #7), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (with band, the "Singing Evangelists"), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (with band, similar to #9), 1925
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Missionaries (3 wagons, 6 men-blurred), 1925?
- Dates
- Creation: 1925?
Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men), 1925?
- Dates
- Creation: 1925?