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Frederick Landis collection

Collection — Box: 5-8

Identifier: L604

Scope and Contents The collection includes materials dating from 1855 to 1965, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1902 to 1934. Included are clippings, scrapbooks, radio scripts, and manuscripts. The bulk of the collection is clippings about the political and editorial careers of Frederick Landis. In the boxes, there are primarily radio scripts and clippings, with some correspondence and small scrapbooks. The majority of the radio scripts are undated but were made during the late 1920s and...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

General William Harrison Kemper papers

Collection

Identifier: S0769

Scope and Contents This collection contains items related to General William Harrison Kemper's Civil War service including his army diary dated from April 22, 1861 to August 3, 1861, a list of volunteers from Decatur County, Indiana who enlisted in Company B, 7th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Kemper's discharge certificate from the regiment dated August 2, 1861, Kemper's certificates of promotion to assistant surgeon from February, 1863, and his discharge from service certificate dated May 5,1863. Also included...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

George Dennett letter

Collection — Folder: S0350

Identifier: S0350

Scope and Contents This collection includes a copy of a letter from George Dennett in Elizabeth, New Jersey to his son Jack Dennett in Brookville, Indiana on March 7, 1869 regarding a death in the family, other family news, a recipe for pudding, and national politics.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

George Herron papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S0645

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, Democratic poll books, newspaper clippings, and other documents from A. W. Trittipo and George Herron in Hamilton County and Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1833 to 1940 regarding finances and politics.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

George Pence papers

Collection

Identifier: L305

Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of George Pence's daybook entries from August 1921 and undated. The entries are in regard to various laws concerning voting, elections, and establishment of organizations in various Indiana towns from 1848 to 1852. Also included are photocopies of an undated daybook that Pence wrote down notes from the November 25,1870- November 9, 1877 Bartholomew Democrat regarding various subjects such as election returns and news about local residents and businesses.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

George S. Rainey collection

Collection

Identifier: L381

Scope and Contents The majority of the collection consists of typescripts of Rainey’s various writings and cassette tapes. In addition to his longer works, Open Day and They Stood Up, a number of shorter works and essay are included. Much of what Rainey wrote is based on his own experiences and beliefs. “A Garrulous Hillbilly” appears to be autobiographical. The cassettes hold recordings of Rainey reciting chapters from his own work as well as speeches and stories by Elbert Hubbard and R. G. Ingersoll. There are...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

George W. Julian collection

Collection

Identifier: L081

Scope and Contents The bulk of the correspondence is that of Julian and his wife, Laura Giddings Julian, and with his children, Grace and Paul, while he was serving in Congress, working as an attorney in Washington, D.C., and on speaking tours. In his letters with Laura, he discusses questions before Congress. Additional correspondence includes letters to Laura from her father, Joshua R. Giddings, written while he was serving in Congress or as U.S. consul general to Canada in Montreal (1861-1864); correspondence...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Gilbert Ashville Pierce and Schuyler Colfax correspondence

Collection — Folder: S1064

Identifier: S1064

Scope and Contents Collection includes a handwritten letter from Indiana Representative Gilbert Ashville Pierce on August 29, 1870, to Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States under President Ulysses S. Grant. In the letter, Pierce urges Colfax to run for President of the United States in 1872.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Godlove S. Orth letters

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S1033

Scope and Contents The collection contains Godlove S. Orth’s letters to Schuyler Colfax, discussing Whig, Know Nothing, and Republican Party politics, the Indiana General Assembly, and other state and national issues. Also included are copies of Orth’s letters to James A. Garfield.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Frederick Landis collection

General William Harrison Kemper papers

George Dennett letter

George Herron papers

George Pence papers

George S. Cottman papers

George S. Rainey collection

George W. Julian collection

Gilbert Ashville Pierce and Schuyler Colfax correspondence

Godlove S. Orth letters

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