Various typed slips of paper with handwritten comments, handwritten letters, speeches, and photos related to the controversy around polygamy in Utah and the founding of the University of Utah

1867 letter from the LDS Church President's Office in Salt Lake City to Ira Hinckley in Coalville, Utah; 1926 postcard of the U.S. Senate Chamber sent to Margaret Jensen of Salt Lake City from her mother in Washington, D.C.; handwritten and typed notes related to polygamy, Edmunds-Tucker Act, Jackrabbit Convention, the Utah Enabling Act, and fights over polygamy in the U.S. Congress in the 1890s; published images of buildings that housed the University of Utah, 1867-1899; photograph of Main Street in Salt Lake City, c. 1860s; printed text related to the original siting of the University of Utah, 1850 and later; handwritten biography of Dr. John W. Park, first president of the University of Utah. Materials collected by Joseph Lafayette Rawlins' daughter, Alta R. Jensen, for her book The Unfavored Few. Joseph L. Rawlins helped organize the first Democratic Party in Utah, served as the first territorial delegate to the U.S House of Representatives, and later served in the U.S. Senate.