Coleman, Christopher Bush, 1875-1944
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur R. Robinson correspondence
Collection — Folder: S1620
Identifier: S1620
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed, signed letters from Arthur R. Robinson in Washington, D. C. ranging from 1926/09/20 to 1933/08/31 regarding copies of his speech and regrets for not being able to attend a sesquicentennial celebration.
Dates:
1926/09/20-1933/08/31
Charlotte Jones Dunn, Contemporary Club of Indianapolis reminiscences
Collection — Folder: S2418
Identifier: S2418
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the reminiscences of Charlotte Jones Dunn regarding the early days of the Contemporary Club of Indianapolis. Dunn's circa 1940 recollections were handwritten on five pages of her personal stationary. The collection also includes a few brief recollections about the club typewritten by Dr. Christopher B. Coleman in December 1940.
Dates:
1940
Christopher B. Coleman collection
Collection — Folder: S282
Identifier: S0282
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an eight page typewritten copy of a January 1932 speech given by Dr. Christopher Coleman regarding the history of Indiana. The speech discusses people and events that helped shape Indiana and includes brief sketches of George Rogers Clark and Abraham Lincoln. The collection also has a carbon copy of an October 27, 1933 letter sent by Coleman to Matilda Denny Gibson thanking her for a copy of a note from ”Suco-co-tash” by Major Denny that included a detail about a...
Dates:
1932-1942
Harold F. Brigham papers
Collection
Identifier: L282
Scope and Contents
This collection includes professional correspondence, speeches, notes, research, clippings, newsletters, meeting minutes, bibliographies, and other materials created and compiled by Harold F. Brigham in Louisville, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1899 to 1967 regarding his work as a librarian in Kentucky and at the Indiana State Library. There are also a few materials relating to Merriwether Lewis and William Clark, which Brigham used in his talk at the Conversation Club in...
Dates:
1899-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Harold F. Brigham papers
Index to topographic maps and geologic folios
Collection — Folder: S2737
Identifier: S2737
Scope and Contents
This collection includes topographic maps from Department of the Interior in Indiana and Illinois during 1938 regarding surveys.
Dates:
1938
Mary Cornell Lowes letter
Collection — Folder: S0855
Identifier: S0855
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a seven-page letter from Mary Cornell Lowes in Mordecai Point, North Scituate, Massachusetts to Christopher B. Coleman in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging on August 4, 1942 regarding her father-in-law, A. B. Lowes and whether his military cap, haversack, sash, and old needle book from his service during the U.S. Civil War could be placed in a military museum or collection.
Dates:
1942
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mary Cornell Lowes letter
Meredith Nicholson papers
Collection
Identifier: L250
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the correspondence of Meredith Nicholson ranging from 1893 to 1942. The correspondence includes original letters sent to Maurice Thompson, Stephen Noland, Louis Bailey, C.B. Coleman, Indiana State Library librarians, and others. The collection also contains photocopies of correspondence between Mr. Nicholson and Charles Scribner's Sons editors Robert Bridges, Maxwell Perkins, John Hall Wheelock, and E.L. Burlingame. The photocopied letters include Nicholson's views on...
Dates:
1893-1942, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Meredith Nicholson papers
Northwest Territory memorabilia
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1632
Scope and Contents
There are five copies of a facsimile Deed of Cession for the Old Northwest Territory from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the George Rogers Clark Delegation, on March 1, 1784. The reprint begins: "To all who shall see these presents..." One of the signers is Thomas Jefferson. The facsimiles were printed November 17-19, 1927. Also in this collection is a certificate from the Executive Department of the State of Indiana declaring that Dr. Christopher B. Coleman of Indianapolis is a member of the...
Dates:
1937-1938
