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Indiana State Library

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Daniel W. Voorhees letters

 Collection — Folder: S1343
Identifier: S1343
Scope and Contents The two letters in this collection were written in ink and signed by D. W. Voorhees. The oldest letter, dated June 20, 1860, was written to Colonel Richard W. Thompson in Washington, D.C. about Daniel's trip to the nation's capital. He wrote: "I start tomorrow to Charlottesville, Va. I will spend some time on the way and will reach there on Saturday the 30th, and one of the chief pleasures I anticipate is in meeting you and George Hughes according to promise. I do wish you will come. I am...
Dates: 1860, 1873

Ezra Winter letter

 Collection — Folder: S0485
Identifier: S0485
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter from Ezra Winter in New York City, New York dated Feburary 1, 1932 regarding the return of a book he had borrowed from the Indiana State Library.
Dates: 1932/02/01

Fred C. Yohn papers

 Collection — Folder: S684
Identifier: S0684
Scope and Contents This collection includes 2 autographed, signed letters from Fred C. Yohn in Boston, Massachusetts ranging from 1928/01/07 to 1929/03/09 regarding his paintings.
Dates: 1928/01/97-1929/03/9

J. Scott Williams collection

 Collection — Folder: S3171
Identifier: S3171
Scope and Contents This collection includes papers and correspondence from J. Scott Williams regarding his career as an artist in the creation and installation of murals and stained glass windows inside public and private buildings. Collection materials were created in New York and Indianapolis from 1959 to 1966. Correspondence includes instructions on cleaning the existing murals in the Indiana State Library and the potential project of a stained glass window depicting Abraham Lincoln. Additional papers include...
Dates: 1959-1966

Oral history and audio collection

 Collection
Identifier: L640
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the breadth of the oral history collection at the Indiana State Library, ranging from circa 1904 to 2019. The bulk of the collection contains oral histories created during the ISL Oral History Project during the 1960s-1980s and recordings of events, meetings, recitations, and radio interviews created and acquired by library staff during that period. The remainder are oral histories created by various outside institutions and organizations, such as universities, public...
Dates: circa 1904-2019