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Abraham Lincoln collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S1170

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials about Abraham Lincoln. Included are photocopies of his various writings and speeches. There is also material that discusses his genealogy and personal accounts of encounters with Abraham Lincoln. Research covers the date range of 1800-1959.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Abraham Lincoln ivy

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: L616

Scope and Contents This collection includes a framed piece of ivy from Lincoln's casket while in Indianapolis, Indiana during the funeral train.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Arietta F. Seward Bullock papers

Collection — Folder: S0190

Identifier: S0190

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed document with map from Arietta and George B. Bullock in Indiana ranging from 1830 to 1938 regarding Jonesboro (now Gentryville) Indiana in 1830, the life of Abraham Lincoln and his family during boyhood in Indiana and the Bullocks' life.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Charles T. Baker papers

Collection — Folder: S0053

Identifier: S0053

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of Baker’s letters to Thelma M. Murphy of Indianapolis. Murphy was able to obtain resources that furthered Baker’s research into the history of Spencer County, and especially Abraham Lincoln. Also contained in this collection are clippings from the Grandview Monitor of Baker’s writings on subjects related to his correspondence with Murphy.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Claude Costlaw Hutson papers

Collection — Folder: S708

Identifier: S0708

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed manuscript from Claude Costlow Huston in Kokomo, Indiana regarding a play about Abraham Lincoln.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

E. S. Guilbert collection

Collection — Folder: S0557

Identifier: S0557

Scope and Contents In March 1830, Abraham Lincoln journeyed from southern Indiana to Illinois with his parents. When they went through Vincennes, legend has it that Abraham toured the Western Sun and General Advertiser newspaper office, where he saw his first printing press, and talked to Editor Stout. Mr. Guilbert wrote to Roy H. Garrigus, editor of the Vincennes Sun-Commercial to verify this story, which Mr. Garrigus could not do.Abraham often went to Rockport and borrowed books from Judge John...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Ewing family collection

Collection

Identifier: L323

Scope and Contents This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Flavius Josephus Bellamy collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S0100

Scope and Contents The collection consists of diaries, letters, newspaper clippings, certificate, and discharge paper.The diary in Folder 1 mentions battles at Gettysburg and Williamsport, with detailed listings of troop movements.The letters in Folder 2 were sent to his parents and sisters Sarah and Eliza, among others. These are very detailed, and usually mention the location from which he writes, and how close it is to another city. It also contains a card with pictures of the...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Indiana Lincoln Memorial Association collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S1578

Scope and Contents Two folders comprise tlhis collection. Folder one has documents and newspaper clippings from 1922 to 1925. The second folder has miscellaneous papers from 1922. The papers are typed. Governor Warren McCray wrote, on October 4, 1922, "I am very much interested in the Indiana Lincoln Memorial Association. I have visited the burial place of Nancy Hanks... The time he [Abraham Lincoln] spent here was during the constructive period of a boy's life and I have no doubt that the environment surrounding...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Indiana Lincoln Union records

Collection

Identifier: L365

Scope and Contents This collection includes records, bank books, booklets, vouchers, and volumes from members of the Lincoln Union ranging from 1927-1940 regarding Indiana Lincoln Union. Notable publications include the 1927 printed copy of "Lincoln the Hoosier" booklet, "Abraham Lincoln", an address delivered before the Lincoln Club of Logansport, and "The Grave of the Mother of Lincoln".

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Abraham Lincoln collection

Abraham Lincoln ivy

Arietta F. Seward Bullock papers

Charles T. Baker papers

Claude Costlaw Hutson papers

E. S. Guilbert collection

Ewing family collection

Flavius Josephus Bellamy collection

Indiana Lincoln Memorial Association collection

Indiana Lincoln Union records

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