After learning the general catalogining process for the items that I would be cataloging, I was able to finish up the Community of Christ collection that we had and moved onto the Gomez Mexican-Mormon Collection. This collection is what I’ll be working on for the foreseeable future since there are a lot of boxes to work through with a lot of exciting items to look at and log into the system!
Here are a few pictures from one of the books I came across as I was cataloging. It is from a self-published book by Eran A. Call that he titled La Historia de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Dias (Los Mormones).
This book is a brief summary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from its origin up to, assumed to be roughly, the date of publication. What particularly struck me in this book were many beautiful illustrations throughout the book that depict various events throughout this church’s history. Here are a couple of them:
I’ll apologize here for some of the image quality, the pages in the book are glossy and the lighting in the room made it somewhat difficult to get a picture lith less light glare in it. However, that being said the quality of the illustrations and pictures captures that Eran Call is attempting to portray in this book.
While I am cataloging part of tje Gomez Mexican-Mormon Collection, a large portion of it pertains to Eran Call, who was an LDS mission president in Mexico, and his writings as well as many of his possessions that he had that were eventually passed on to the owner of this collection. With that in mind, I think books like this are great additions for the collection as a whole and I can’t wait to see what else is in here.
Until next time!
Stephen Cameron