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Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916

 Person

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Alvah Judson Rogers, James Whitcomb Riley sketch

 Collection — Folder: S2608
Identifier: S2608
Scope and Contents This collection includes a sketch of James Whitcomb Riley drawn by Alvah Judson Rogers mostly like following his move to Brown County, Indiana in 1940. The pencil drawing depicts Riley in profile wearing his spectacles and is signed A. J. Rogers.
Dates: circa 1940-1960

American Lung Association of Central Indiana collection

 Collection
Identifier: L627
Scope and Contents This collection contains organizational records including administrative records, financial information, correspondence, reports, statistical data and maps, broadsides, pamphlets and periodicals, scrapbooks, photographs, and audiovisual materials from the American Lung Association of Central Indiana and its primary predecessor, the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1903 to 1977 regarding the organizations' activities in the eradication of tuberculosis...
Dates: 1903-1977

Claude Matthews letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0931
Scope and Contents The collection includes letters and a petition addressed to Governor Matthews regarding the coal miners' strike in southern Indiana, including communications from county sheriffs, Grand Army of the Republic posts, and miner's organizations (1894); correspondence regarding the Pullman Strike and rioting in Lake County (1894); and correspondence as Governor regarding the determination of the Indiana-Kentucky border, the Indiana State Fair, the extradition of criminals, and other official matters....
Dates: 1836-1894

Early Indiana photographic slides

 Collection — Folder: SP038
Identifier: SP038
Scope and Contents This collection includes 35mm slides in Indiana circa 1950s regarding people, such as Father Pierre Gibault, Little Turtle, Tecumseh, William Henry Harrison, George Rapp, Robert Owen, Oliver P. Morton, James Whitcomb Riley, and Levi Cotton, and places like Vincennes, Corydon, New Harmony, and Indianapolis, significant to early history of Indiana.
Dates: circa 1950

Edward Eggleston papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0410
Scope and Contents This collection includes autographed, signed letters and postal envelopes from Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Henry Ward Beecher, James Bryce, Evelyn Craig, Rebecca Harding Davis, George Cary Eggleston, Edward Eggleston, Harry Fenn, Richard Watson Gilder, Washington Gladden, Edward Everett Hale, William Dean Howells, Samuel Pennybacker, Frederic Remington, James Whitcomb Riley, Charles Dudley Warner and Frances E. Willard in various locations in the United States ranging from 1868 to 1960 regarding...
Dates: 1868-1960, undated

Enos B. Heiney collection

 Collection — Folder: S1945
Identifier: S1945
Scope and Contents This collection includes letters from Benjamin S. Parker to Enos Heiney in New Castle, Indiana ranging from 1898-1911 regarding the publication of "Poets and Poetry of Indiana."
Dates: 1898-1911

Eva Ione East papers

 Collection — Folder: S399
Identifier: S0399
Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed, hand-corrected letter from C. Ear East in Bloomington, Indiana on 1974/12/29 regarding his cousin, Eva Ione East's death and her encounter with James Whitcomb Riley on November 6, 1903.
Dates: 1974/12/29

Frank G. Darlington collection

 Collection
Identifier: L040
Scope and Contents The collection contains correspondence, postcards, calendars, poems, book reviews, pamphlets, programs, and newspaper clippings from Frank G. Darlington ranging from 1871 to 1915. The collection contains many papers pertaining to James Whitcomb Riley and other Indiana authors. There is also Darlington’s undated thesis.
Dates: 1871-1915

Frank M. Hohenberger photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P013
Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs and a few clippings and pamphlets from Frank M. Hohenberger in Indiana and Kentucky ranging from 1916 to 1935 and undated regarding landscapes, nature scenes in state parks and other locations, local buildings, houses of important figures, historic sites, and some people.
Dates: 1916-1935, undated

George S. Cottman papers

 Collection
Identifier: L039
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, research, newspaper articles and drafts of speeches, and articles from George S. Cottman in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1872 to 1937 regarding Indiana history, business and family business, and articles by other writers concerning history.
Dates: 1857-1937, undated