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Cecil Beeson collection
Collection
Identifier: L566
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed, autographed and photocopied documents from various people, government and private organizations collected by local genealogist and historian Cecil Beeson in Blackford County, Indiana, ranging from 1838 to 1972 regarding family histories, biographies, U.S. Civil War documents, church histories and governmental records.There is an oversize document, "The Early History of the First Baptist Church of Montpelier, Indiana" by Rev. C. H. Kendall, circa 1908...
Dates:
1839-1972, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Citizens School Committee history
Collection — Folder: S2430
Identifier: S2430
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten copy of "Brief History of the Citizens School Committee of Indianapolis, Indiana." Compiled by Fred Bates Johnson and Edgar H. Evans on February 9, 1944, the history is four pages long and covers the time from its founding in 1921 through the 1942 elections. The history lists both the officers of the committee and the candidates supported in each election, and also mentions the influence of the Ku Klux Klan on the school board from 1926 to 1930.
Dates:
1944/02/09
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
"Communism's Un-American Program" cartoon
Collection — Folder: S3437
Identifier: S3437
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one political cartoon created by the Ku Klux Klan Press entitled "Communism's Un-American Program" that shows a character labeled "Communism" throwing bricks labeled "Free Love" and "World Revolution" into buildings labeled as perceived American institutions such as "Marriage", "Land Ownership", "Law", and "White Supremacy".
Dates:
20th century
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
D. C. Stephenson collection
Collection
Identifier: L246
Scope and Contents
The collection consists principally of contemporary copies of Stephenson’s prison correspondence, made for Indiana State Prison Warden Walter Daly (1925-1933). Included is Stephenson’s correspondence with his attorneys, supporters, and family regarding his attempts to gain release, prison conditions, Ku Klux Klan, Indiana politics, and personal business. Also part of the collection are letters to Warden Daly regarding Stephenson, letters to and from Stephenson that were retained by prison...
Dates:
1925-1933
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Edward Beecher Bender oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH036
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a transcript and an audiotape reel of an oral history with Edward Beecher Bender conducted with Tom Krasean for the Indiana State Library on October 31, 1968. Bender discusses growing up on a farm, his association with the Ku Klux Klan and Indiana politics during the 1920s, the Boone County R.E.M.C. and farming in the 1960s.
Dates:
1968/10/31
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Elwood, Indiana, Ku Klux Klan collection
Collection — Folder: S1550
Identifier: S1550
Scope and Contents
The single item in the collection is an unused gold paper seal for the Women of the Ku Klux Klan of Elwood, Indiana.
Dates:
1970
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Harold C. Feightner collection
Collection
Identifier: L055
Scope and Contents
This collection includes transcripts, newspapers and correspondence from Harold C. Feightner in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1930 to 1968 regarding Indiana alcohol laws. The transcripts include Feightner's notable works "Politics, Prohibition and Repeal 1938," and "Pulpits and Politics 1850-1908." This collection also includes papers and clippings regarding Ku Klux Klan activity in Indianapolis and the Anti-Saloon League.
Dates:
1850-1968
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indianapolis Public Library Hilton U. Brown Branch oral history transcripts
Collection
Identifier: OH008
Scope and Contents
This collection contains transcripts of oral history interviews with residents of Irvington, once a town in Marion County, and now a neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1978 to 1987. The interviews were conducted primarily by Lois Leamon and others for Indianapolis Public Library, Hilton U. Brown Branch's Irvington Oral History Project. The transcripts include historical information about the town-cum-neighborhood and the people who lived there.
Dates:
1978-1987
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
J. H. Goldman collection
Collection — Folder: S0521
Identifier: S0521
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a certificate issued to Reverend J. H. Goldman on August 3, 1929 to certify that he was an approved “Quarterly Conference Preacher of the Gospel of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.” It also consists of “A Klansman’s Creed" from the Ku Klux Klan. There are notes from a sermon about the role of a “Klans-man.”
Dates:
1929
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
James Miller oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH201
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a transcript and audiotape reel from an oral history interview with Reverend James Miller, conducted by Thomas Krasean for the Indiana State Library on October 2, 1968, at Waugh, Boone County, Indiana. The interview covers his experiences in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War, life following the war, conversion and life as a preacher, and discusses the Ku Klux Klan and its effects on his ministry.
Dates:
1968/10/02
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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