Indiana University
Organization
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Agnes E. Hinkle Ostrom collection
Collection
Identifier: L692
Scope and Contents
This collection includes seven scrapbooks and some miscellaneous items associated with them from Agnes E. Hinkle Ostrom and her daughter, Cynthia Agnes Ostrom in Indiana, ranging from 1930 to 1957 and focus on the early lives of the two women, particularly their school years.Agnes Ostrom created five of the seven scrapbooks, which concern her academic career and married life and cover a wide variety of topics. They include wedding invitations and announcements, material from her...
Dates:
1930-1957
Andrew Wylie collection
Collection — Folder: S1468
Identifier: S1468
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter written by Andrew Wylie in Bloomington, Indiana to Senator Oliver H. Smith of Indiana in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 1840, regarding a speech the senator gave and Wylie's writing. There are also several newspaper clipping of Kate Milner Rabb's column, "A Hoosier Listening Post," in theIndianapolis Star from 1929 and 1931 regarding Andrew Wylie and his correspondence.
Dates:
1840, 1929-1931
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Andrew Wylie collection
Christmas cards collection
Collection — Folder: 2100
Identifier: S2100
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Christmas cards from various people in Indiana ranging from 1886 to 1939 regarding the Christmas season, New Year, Christianity, as well as "General Jackson's Holiday Season 1814-1815," and "General Washington's Christmas 1776" regarding their wartime accounts.
Dates:
1886-1939
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Christmas cards collection
Cummins Engine Foundation Fellowship collection
Collection — Folder: S1542
Identifier: S1542
Scope and Contents
This one item is a notice for a $1,500.00 stipend to provide financial assistance for students seeking advanced degrees in adult education at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the 1969-1970 school year. "Preference will be given candidates seeking the doctor's ddegree." Cummins Engine offered the money.
Dates:
1969-1970
David A. Rothrock letter
Collection — Folder: S346
Identifier: S0346
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter from D. A. Rothrock in Bloomington, Indiana on September 18, 1907 regarding additional copies of the proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. Of special note is that the letterhead reads "University of Indiana," instead of Indiana University.
Dates:
1907/09/18
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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David A. Rothrock letter
Donald D. Howard collection
Collection
Identifier: L076
Scope and Contents
The collection contains World War II letters of Howard to his parents, Louise and George Howard (Evansville, Indiana), written from the South Pacific, Okinawa, China, Korea, the Philippines, California, and Ft. Benjamin Harrison. The collection also includes correspondence from the Howard’s daughters Marilyn, a student at Indiana University, and Mrs. R.C. Datzman, a medical technician and wife of a physician in Detroit and Carlysle, Pennsylvania, during the same time period.
Dates:
1944-1946
Edward B. Bender collection
Collection — Folder: S0102
Identifier: S0102
Scope and Contents
The collection contains photocopies of a notebook belonging to Edward B. Bender with expenses, transactions, schedule of the day and miscellaneous thoughts and quotes from 1897-1899.
Dates:
1897-1899
Elisha Cockefair collection
Collection
Identifier: L035
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters of the Cockefair family in Everton, Indiana principally to Alice Keltner in Anderson, Madison County (1895-1911); papers of Charles Masters of Connersville, Fayette County, including his cancelled checks (1917-1939) and his papers relating to his work raising money in Fayette County for the Indiana University Memorial Fund (1922); and letters of Mary Alice Masters from Connersville (1922), Washington D.C. (1938), and California while she was serving in the...
Dates:
1851-1959
George William Curtis correspondence
Collection — Folder: S0329
Identifier: S0329
Scope and Contents
Twenty letters addressed to George W. Curtis comprise this collection. The first six letters were written between May 7, 1901 and Oct. 17, 1902, and deal with some problem George had with the administration of Indiana University and his being a part of the class of 1900.There are three letters from the National Union Fire Insurance of Pittsburg, Pa., dealing with delinquent payments. All of them are signed R. C. Clark, special agent.Seven letters on half sheets are from...
Dates:
1901-1908
Harry J. Skornia, Indiana composers collection
Collection — Folder: S2447
Identifier: S2447
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence and research documents ranging from 1899 to 1944 compiled by Harry J. Skornia and his students at Indiana University for a series of radio programs about Indiana composers that were broadcast Sunday mornings from the Bloomington campus studios in cooperation with the WIRE radio station in Indianapolis. The research documents include biographies, lists of the composer's musical compositions, and typewritten transcriptions of articles from newspapers and...
Dates:
1899-1944
