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A Walk in the Woods with Gene Stratton-Porter photograph collection
Collection — Folder: SP179
Identifier: SP179
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs and positive film strips, most likely taken by Randy Starks and Dave Fulton, in Rome City, Indiana ranging in 1989, depicting actress Joanna Cassidy at the filming of the documentary, A Walk in the Woods with Gene Stratton-Porter, at Porter's Cabin at Wildflower Woods. There are also 4 photographs at a reception in the Indiana Authors' Room at the Indiana State Library where Cassidy received a Sagamore of the Wabash.
Dates:
1989
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alexander S. Dowling volume
Collection — Volume: V294
Identifier: V294
Scope and Contents
This collection includes bound carbon typescripts of three novels, two essays, and seven poems and is dated 1918 on the cover. However, an inscription on the inside cover is dated June 12, 1919, and the preface to "Under the Four" is dated December 28, 1919.This bound collection contains three novels: "Auto-Biography of a Civil War Veteran", about a cadet in military academy who graduates to the Civil War; "Under the Four, or How a Scout Made Good, adventures with the Boy Scouts of...
Dates:
1918
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alvah Judson Rogers, James Whitcomb Riley sketch
Collection — Folder: S2608
Identifier: S2608
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a sketch of James Whitcomb Riley drawn by Alvah Judson Rogers mostly like following his move to Brown County, Indiana in 1940. The pencil drawing depicts Riley in profile wearing his spectacles and is signed A. J. Rogers.
Dates:
circa 1940-1960
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alvin F. Harlow letter
Collection — Folder: S0591
Identifier: S0591
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter from Alvin F. Harlow to Miss Nellie Coats, a librarian who worked at the Indiana State Library, on February 6, 1951. His letter mentions Cincinnati artist, Laura Fry, who did wood carving, china painting, and furniture design. He comments on the mission furniture fad and the "monstrosities" of the furniture styles of that time period and included a February 2, 1951 news clipping titled, "California Antiques Held Mostly 'Junky'" that quotes a art expert saying...
Dates:
1951/02
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Benjamin Wilson Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: L146
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Benjamin WIlson Smith’s writings about the history of Warrick, Spencer, and White counties, Indiana and Harrison County, West Virginia, Manchester Academy and the postal system. Also included are his accounts of a trip from Virginia to White County in 1846 and an autobiography. Also, his scrapbook of clippings and notes on politics, his advice to students in Dearborn County, Daughters of the American Revolution applications for his family, correspondence with his...
Dates:
1858-1949
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bess Day collection
Collection — Folder: S0343
Identifier: S0343
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence and biographical information from various numerous Indiana authors to Bess Day in Anderson, Indiana ranging in 1945 regarding the lives of those authors. The authors who responded to Day's inquiries for information include: Barbara Allee (daughter of author), Fannie B. Blumberg, Kate Gambold (Mrs. John A.) Dyer, Louise Embree, Clotilde Embree Funk, Helen Boyd (Mrs. William Robert) Higgins, Mable Leigh Hunt, Clara Ingram Judson, Ross F. Lockridge, Laura...
Dates:
1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Blanche Stillson papers
Collection — Folder: S2443
Identifier: S2443
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten copy of an article published in the February 25, 1930 Indianapolis News that was written by Blanche Stillson about two portraits of Dr. and Mrs. C. G. McLean that were given to the Herron Art Institute. The article relates Dr. McLean's background and the history of the McLean Female Institute, a seminary for women in Indianapolis that operated for about 15 years before closing shortly after the U.S. Civil War. The article...
Dates:
circa 1930
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Booth Tarkington collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2459
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters to and from Booth Tarkington from individuals such as Richard F. Ward, Indianapolis journalist Mary Dyer Lemon, the Silberman brothers (art dealers in New York), typescripts of essays and poems, and other miscellaneous documents. There is also an oversize folder with other materials (OB173).
Dates:
1892-1951
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bruce Calvert correspondence
Collection — Folder: S0998
Identifier: S0998
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed, signed letters from Bruce Calvert in Pigeon-Roost-in-the-Woods, New Jersey ranging from 1929/09/24 to 1930/09/25 regarding the Indiana State Library's holdings of "The Open Road."
Dates:
1929/09/24-1930/09/25
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Charles Major letter
Collection — Folder: S1644
Identifier: S1644
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a short, handwritten letter dated March 27, 1901 and sent by Charles Major to a Miss McCarthy in response to a request for a personal autograph.
Dates:
1901/03/27
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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