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Manuscripts

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:

Charles and Edith Weisse papers

 Collection — Folder S2466
Identifier: S2466
Scope and Contents This collection contains various documents of Charles Edward and Edith Weisse, including their June 30, 1913 wedding certificate; a certificate for life insurance for Edith and two junior protection certificates for her daughters Ella and Mary from the Woman's Benefit Association of the Maccabees dated May 9, 1922; three "Notice of Assessment of Real Estate and Improvements" forms for property in Muncie, Indiana from May 1922 and April 1925; a pocket diary for November 1930; a newspaper...
Dates: 1913-1947, undated

Charles Bruce Millholland papers

 Collection — Folder S0966
Identifier: S0966
Scope and Contents This collection contains copies of documents used by Charles Bruce Millholland to write Limestone Town, an unpublished book he worked on while employed by the Indiana Federal Writers' Project in 1939. The documents range from 1922 to 1937 and contain quarry and mill worker wage scales; United States limestone producing areas data; and union membership, home owners' association, and economic assistance data for Lawrence and Monroe Counties. The collection also includes copies of "Origins of...
Dates: 1922-1939

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.
Dates: circa 1908-1987

Claude J. Haymond manuscript

 Collection — Folder S0617
Identifier: S0617
Scope and Contents This collection contains a 16-page manuscript written by Claude J. Haymond regarding Shelby County's role in the 1851 Indiana constitutional convention. The manuscript gives a brief background of Indiana's first constitution of 1816 and the reasons why it was deemed necessary to create a new one. Haymond describes Shelbyville and Shelby County in 1850 and also quotes the description of Indianapolis written by Edward Eggleston at the time of the convention. Haymond's manuscript offers...
Dates: circa 1920s

David McLellan and Bill Warrick, "101 Miles: The Western Division of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway" manuscript

 Collection — Folder S2267
Identifier: S2267
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of "101 Miles: The Western Division of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway," a typewritten manuscript written by David McLellan and Bill Warrick circa 1989. The manuscript includes handwritten corrections, illustrations, photographs, and captions for the images. The manuscript was published as a book titled, The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, published in September 1989 by Transportation Trails...
Dates: circa 1989

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

Donald M. Ream collection

 Collection — Folder S1100
Identifier: S1100
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a history of the Supreme Court written by Donald Ream and a certificate appointing him to the Wilbur Wright Birthplace Commission.
Dates: 1955

Dr. Moehlman "Indiana Primitive Baptists" manuscript

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1386
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two copies of a manuscript written by Dr. Moehlman dated May 15, 1931 concerning the history of the Primitive Baptists in Indiana, beginning with the Whitewater Association in 1807 and notabley includes a d Numbers of churches and members are listed throughout the typed manuscript. Besides ministers, messengers are also listed with their "original churches."
Dates: 1931/05/15

Edgar H. Suter manuscripts

 Collection — Folder S1312
Identifier: S1312
Scope and Contents This collection includes two typed manuscripts, "Stalin's Most Monstrous Methods" and "Most Miraculous Maniac: Abdication Mystery Solved at Last," written by Edgar H. Suter in 1949 under the pen name, Told Bold. Suffering from mental illness, Suter wrote about what he saw as the "secret-hidden phases of World Wars I and II and events leading up to both." In the second manuscript, he is the "Most Miraculous Maniac" or M.M.M.
Dates: 1949

Edward N. Wentworth manuscript

 Collection — Folder S1384
Identifier: S1384
Scope and Contents This collection is a single typed, 35-page manuscript by Edward N. Wentworth entitled: "When Porter County Was Indian Frontier." On page two, Edward indicated that this was a speech he presented. He wrote about how he became interested in the history of the area when he and his wife purchased property in the winter of 1941-1942. Wentworth wrote about the Great Sauk Trail which connected Detroit in Michigan with Rock Island in the Mississippi River. Joseph Bailly received a grant from President...
Dates: circa 1949