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Who were we, and what were we doing as a people, in 1959? Here are a few of us –
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Carlota de Yalibat, Relief Society President,
Coban Branch, Guatemala
Patrons in the library of the Genealogical Society
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Cleaning carpets in the Tabernacle
Benjamin N. Pearce – Hank Kolkman
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Constructing meeting houses,
Northern Mexican Mission
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Guam Branch Primary
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Entertainers at Gold and Green Ball,
Auckland, New Zealand
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Christmas Snowflake Chorus
Cottonwood 2nd Ward (Salt Lake Valley)
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Winning accordion quartet at Western States Accordion Festival,
Long Beach, California
Members of East Mesa (Arizona) Stake:
Frank Milano, Francene Milano, Sylvia Farnsworth, Mila Ann Milano
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Marion G. Romney inspecting site of future chapel,
Brussels, Belgium
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“Mormon Yankees” missionary basketball team,
Sydney, Australia
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Relief Society dramatic group,
Newcastle District (England) Relief Society
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Junior Council, segment on raising funds for
Primary Children’s Hospital
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Latter-day Saints aboard U.S.S. Ranger
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Staff of Genealogical Society examining Polynesian records
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Lamanite Primary of Ramah, New Mexico,
upon completion of 360 baptisms for the dead
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Emigration Stake (Salt Lake) Cub Scouts,
presenting two television sets to Primary Children’s Hospital
after conducting a successful fundraiser
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Sign built by Phoenix Air Scouts
indicating direction of emergency landing strip
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LDS servicemen stationed at Fort Ord, California,
excursion to Los Angeles Temple
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Las Vegas 6th Ward Trailbuilders,
Primary Baseball League
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Beehive Girls of Union 3rd Ward (Salt Lake City), who made neckerchiefs for these new Scouts in Tulao, Samoa
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Random man who is inexplicably pleased to find canned soup in his dinner pot
in every 1959 issue of the Improvement Era
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Stake Presidency and Stake Relief Society Board, Salt Lake Stake
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Reno, Nevada
Relief Society Sisters with their hand-braided rug
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First Presidency:
J. Reuben Clark, Jr.; Henry D. Moyle; David O. McKay
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Eyring Science Center, BYU, between classes
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Granite Seminary, Salt Lake City
Oldest in church (founded 1912)
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Aberdeen, Scotland, MIA Christmas party
featuring “treacle scones and apples”
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