Literature -- Societies, etc.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin S. Parker papers
Collection
Identifier: L123
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Benjamin S. Parker’s correspondence and writings, including correspondence E. B. Heiney and publishers about Poets and Poetry of Indiana; correspondence regarding Parker’s poetry, his newspaper work, and requests for advice on writing. Also included is correspondence regarding Republican Party politics, James Whitcomb Riley, and family matters. The collections also contains Parker’s writings including the subjects of the National Road,...
Dates:
1790-1923
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Benjamin S. Parker papers
C. Alfred Campbell collection
Collection
Identifier: L028
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of C. Alfred Campbell’s correspondence, writings, and material collected for his 1952 paper at the Indianapolis Literary Club on Hoosier humorist Kin Hubbard (d. 1930). Included is Campbell’s correspondence with people who knew Hubbard; copies of articles and clippings on Hubbard; and a copy of Campbell’s paper of Hubbard, "Give Us Back Our Hillbillies." Also included is a small amount of later correspondence on Hubbard.
Dates:
1910-1972
David Turpie collection
Collection
Identifier: L164
Scope and Contents
The collection contains David Turpie’s manuscript of Sketches of My Own Time (1903), minutes of Fiat Lux, a Indianapolis literary society, from 1875 to 1876, and Turpie's speeches on literary and political issues.
Dates:
1875-1903
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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David Turpie collection
Emma Hillis collection
Collection — Folder S2186
Identifier: S2186
Scope and Contents
There are four items in this collection: (1) badge of the Pereclesian Society of Franklin College, which belonged to W. H. McCoy, who graduated from that college in 1861; (2) agreement for eleven men to pay the $50 salary for Elizabeth A. Potter to teach in Marion Township, Decatur County, Indiana, dated April 14, 1862; (3) certificate granting license for E. A. Potter to teach in the common school in Decatur County, dated August 30, 1862; and (4) "Minutes of the Fifty-Fourth Anniversary of the...
Dates:
1861-1876
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Emma Hillis collection
Fifth Day Evening Club newsletter
Collection — Folder S1520
Identifier: S1520
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the first issue of the Silver Leaf newsletter written for the Fifth Day Evening Club possibly from Rockville, Indiana from March 1866 regarding education, news, science, and literature. The marriage of James M. Coltrane and Samantha E. Teague is mentioned in the newsletter, their marriage license was issued in Rockville, Indiana on February 19, 1866.Source:Ancestry.com. Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001. Accessed May 5,...
Dates:
1866
Indiana Federation of Clubs collection
Collection
Identifier: L638
Scope and Contents
The collection includes records of the Indiana Federation of Clubs (IFC) ranging from 1889 to 2004. including trustee and executive committee minutes, convention programs and minutes, yearbooks, copies of the publication, Indiana Clubwoman, programs of the study and work of the IFC, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and histories of the club and districts. Some of the materials come directly from the...
Dates:
1889-2004
Indianapolis German Literary Club records
Collection
Identifier: V188
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a bound volume of the Indianapolis German Literary Club's annual program booklets ranging from 1893 to 1918 that include the group's constitution and by-laws. The second volume contains the club's meeting minutes (1893-1917), newpaper clippings, a photograph of Mrs. Charles M. Walker, and the club's history written in English and German by Mrs. Henry Lane Bruner and dated December 14, 1938.
Dates:
1893-1938
Irvington Athenaeum records
Collection — Volume V203
Identifier: V203
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the constitution and by-laws, membership lists, meeting minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and financial documents from the Irvington Athenaeum literary club ranging from 1900-1910. Also included is a list of speakers who addressed the club, including, but not limited to, Henry Van Dyke, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Woodrow Wilson, William Butler Yeats, Edward Cummings, and Thomas Daly.
Dates:
1900-1910
Kokomo Star Society record book
Collection — Folder S2269
Identifier: S2269
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the Kokomo Star Society record book containing entries ranging from 1875 to 1877. The small book includes the group's constitution, bylaws, meeting minutes, and a list of its early members. Please note that the preamble and first page of the constitution have faded and are difficult to read.
Dates:
1875-1877
Magazine Club records
Collection
Identifier: L431
Scope and Contents
This collection includes yearbooks from the Magazine Club in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1896 to 1970 regarding club members and activities.
Dates:
1896-1970
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Magazine Club records
