Microfilm of various biographies, genealogical charts, and photographs, primarily relating to the Taylor family. The film opens with copies of several photographs, including a stagecoach in front of Carter's Photograph Gallery, the Temple in 1865, and the unloading of goods for Walker Brothers dated 1868. There is a front page identified as "A Family Record of Oliver Wendell Holmes" that features several quotes but not other information, and a sheet of "Words Spoken by Moroni to the Prophet Joseph" with various Biblical quotes. The majority of the microfilm consists of biographies of Elizabeth Patrick Taylor (1793-1880), William Taylor (1787-1839), Levi James Taylor (1851-1935), and Pleasant Green Taylor (1827-1917), written by Lella Marler Hoggan in 1933. These essays are accompanied by photographs of Elizabeth Patrick Taylor and her children, Alfred G. Taylor and Charlotte Johnson Taylor and family, Alfred William Taylor and Ada Hix Taylor and family, and Clara Lake Taylor and Pleasant Green Taylor and family, along with historical and genealogical notes on Taylor ancestors by Alfred G. Taylor and some genealogical charts. On the same reel as MSS MFilm 00088 item 02. MSS MFilm 00088 item 01 consists of frames 1-25. All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1948. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995.
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