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Vance Hartke letters and newsletters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0606
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one letter sent to Vance Hartke from Harry S. Truman in 1958 and five letters sent by Hartke and his staff to constituents ranging from 1965 to 1973, regarding visits to Indiana, public policy, and Senator Hartke's continuing concerns about the war in Cambodia. It also includes newsletters from Senator Vance Hartke's Washington, D.C. office from 1960 to 1973.
Dates:
1958-1973
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
"Vigo County Politics since the War" manuscript
Collection — Volume: V286
Identifier: V286
Scope and Contents
The "Vigo County Politics since the War" manuscript was created by J. A. Willison, a druggist in Terre Haute, Indiana. It includes a review of political contests in the county since the close of the Civil War to 1893.
Dates:
1865-1893
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Virginia Ellis Jenckes papers
Collection
Identifier: L374
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of correspondences, papers, speeches, clippings, pamphlets, ephemera, and photographs from Virginia Ellis Jenckes’s congressional and nonprofit work nonprofit work in Indiana, Washington, D.C., and France, ranging from 1930 to 1951, regarding her political career and work with the Red Cross, as well as the Agriculture Waste Recovery Project (1933–1943) and other efforts to help farmers during the Depression; flood control on the Wabash and White Rivers;...
Dates:
1918-1951
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Von A. Eichhorn papers
Collection
Identifier: L266
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from Von A. Eichhorn and others in Indianapolis and other cities in Indiana; newspaper clippings, departmental reports; committee reports, minutes and administrative papers; maps; photographs; agendas; memoranda; Senate and House bills; and newsletters ranging from 1938 to 1978 regarding state legislation, committee reports and studies, political news and analysis, statistics and financial information.
Dates:
1938-1978, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
W. B. Young daily journal
Collection — Folder: S1476
Identifier: S1476
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of a daily journal book W.B. Young in West Union, Adams County, Ohio and Fulton County, Indiana ranging from 1849 to 1867, generally concerning daily activities, travel, business, politics, and the weather.
Dates:
1849-1867
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
W. H. H. Terrell, "Governor Oliver P. Morton" essays
Collection — Folder: S1913
Identifier: S1913
Scope and Contents
This collection includes handwritten drafts of essays by William H. H. Terrell regarding Governor Oliver P. Morton. Written in pencil and ink (circa 1870s), the topics covered include difficulties with a man named Watson (most likely Peter H. Watson) at the War Department who wouldn't give Terrell an audience and resulting in Governor Morton having to leave his meeting with President Lincoln to resolve the matter; Governor Morton's proposal to Lincoln to raise a force of men to open the...
Dates:
circa 1870s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
W. H. Roane letter
Collection — Folder: S1120
Identifier: S1120
Scope and Contents
This letter is written in ink on one folded sheet of parchment. The letter is from Washington, March 28, 1840, addressed to I. D. P. Brown, and signed W. H. Roane. Mr. Roane discusses the 1840 presidential election, which was between William Henry Harrison, a Whig from Ohio, with John Tyler as his running mate, and Martin Van Buren, a Democrat from New York, who had no vice president on the ticket. Mr. Roane wrote: "The country will be saved from the ignoring of suffering a hungry...
Dates:
1840
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Waller Taylor letters
Collection — Folder: S1287
Identifier: S1287
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of letters from the John C. Short papers in the Library of Congress from November 4, 1812, to May 16, 1815, plus one letter dated December 15, 1816, which was typed and donated by Dorothy Riker. The letters are addressed to John C. Short in Cincinnati, Ohio. The 1816 letter is to Major Edmund H. Taylor, receiver of public monies in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Dates:
1812-1816
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Walter D. Myers papers
Collection
Identifier: L115
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, papers, newspaper and magazine clippings, political speeches, programs, name badges, buttons, and pins from Walter D. Myers and others in Indianapolis, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1905 to 1969, regarding Myers' education, career, political and family life, and achievements.
There are also Myers' certificate of appointment from 1940 and a newspaper clipping from 1948 (OB188).
There are also Myers' certificate of appointment from 1940 and a newspaper clipping from 1948 (OB188).
Dates:
1905-1969, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Walter D. Myers photographs
Collection — Folder: SP084
Identifier: SP084
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs of Walter D. Myers in California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Claremore, Oklahoma; Chicago, Illinois; and other unidentified locations in the United States ranging from 1948 to 1952 and undated, depicting him with various people at social and political events, probably as part of his fourth assistant postmaster general duties.
Dates:
1948-1952, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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