SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of State History recognized the LDS Church History Department for creating the bibliography and category records of the largest collection of Utah territorial records and for providing thousands of pages to complete the nearly 50-year run of the Salt Lake Evening Telegraph (1902 to 1950), according to a news release.
Many of the records from when Utah was a territory are available through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Church History website at history.lds.org, including the Brigham Young Office Files.
The Utah Division of State History also recognized the LDS Church’s History Department for their assistance with the Salt Lake Evening Telegram. Because the division had an incomplete collection of the Salt Lake Evening Telegram, it contacted the LDS Church’s History Department, which was able to fill in those gaps from their holdings. The project covered 58,214 pages of gaps from 1903 to 1950, according to the news release. The LDS Church scanned the missing pages and the State History division paid to have them indexed and posted online.