Manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:
Paul M. Ross "Indiana" manuscript
Collection — Folder S1812
Identifier: S1812
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten copy of the manuscript "Indiana" by Paul M. Ross. Written in 1947 while Ross served as executive director of the Indiana Department of Commerce and Public Relations, the manuscript presents information about the state regarding a variety of topics: physical characteristics, cities, population, natural resources, state parks and public lands, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, banking, state government, local government, education, and history....
Dates:
1947-1950
Peggy Simpson "Harbor Lights for Tiny Mites" manuscript
Collection — Folder S1189
Identifier: S1189
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten manuscript of the unpublished alphabet book "Harbor Lights for Tiny Mites" by Peggy Simpson and copyrighted by Margaret Elizabeth Simpson in 1952. Each entry in the book starts with a word that coordinates with a letter and then offers an inspirational message. For example, the entry for the letter "B" reads "Books, if they be good, are your friend and teacher. Lend your heart to them and in return you will learn how to grow!"
Dates:
circa 1952
Raymond Millholland collection
Collection
Identifier: L460
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, manuscripts, and copies of the published articles and short stories of Raymond “Ray” Millholland ranging from circa 1912 to 1971. The collection includes letters exchanged between Ray, his wife, and their sons Robert “Bob” and James “Jim” while the sons served in the Army Airforce and Navy during World War II (1942-1945); two sets of transcriptions of the letters transcribed by the Millholland’s youngest son, Arthur...
Dates:
circa 1912-1971
Rebecca Parrish collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1041
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three letters, poems, and a manuscript belonging to Dr. Rebecca Parrish ranging from 1908 and 1947. The first letter dated November 25, 1908 was sent to Dr. Rebecca Parrish from A.J. McLaughlin, Acting Director of Health of the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Health for the Philippine Islands, thanking the Mary J. Johnston Memorial Hospital for assisting the department with the cholera outbreak. In a second letter dated November 10, 1947 Dr. Parrish wrote...
Dates:
1908-1947, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Rebecca Parrish collection
Richard Banta collection
Collection
Identifier: L631
Scope and Contents
This collection includes materials created and compiled by Banta and his secretary, Mrs. Margaret Husting, between 1945 and 1949 during the writing and editing of Indiana Authors and Their Books: 1816-1916. The book was published in 1949 by Wabash College. Materials included are note cards with information about the 900-plus authors in the work, biographical sketches with bibliographies of each author's work, and correspondence related to gathering information about the authors from libraries...
Dates:
1945-1949
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Richard Banta collection
Richard Lieber papers
Collection
Identifier: L091
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, financial documents, photographs and drawings, brochures, social invitations, naturalization papers, and outlines of right and left foot, from Richard Lieber and many other people, as well as government agencies in the United States and Germany, ranging from 1892 to 1958. Materials concern the Abraham and Nancy Hanks Lincoln; monuments, Lieber family matters, the National Park Service, Indiana State Parks, Thomas Hart Benton, the Civilian Conservation...
Dates:
1892-1958
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Richard Lieber papers
Rodney C. Perkins collection
Collection
Identifier: L307
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 3 typewritten copies of "Camp and Community", an unpublished novel about the Civilian Conservation Corps written by Rodney C. Perkins (circa 1983). There are carbon copies of his first draft and final draft with corrections and a copy of the completed manuscript. An author's preface is also included with the final draft copies.
Dates:
circa 1983
Sallie Dayton collection
Collection — Folder S0344
Identifier: S0344
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed copy of the play, The Greenwood School from Sallie Dayton in Indiana in 1968 regarding students and a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in the 1890s.
Dates:
1968
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Sallie Dayton collection
Sam B. Woods papers
Collection
Identifier: L181
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed and signed and typed and signed correspondence from various people in the United States; typed, carbon copies and autographed articles from Bartlett and Sam B. Woods in Lake County, Indiana; typed foreward to book, "First Hundred Years of Lake County by Sam B. Woods; articles and addresses written by various people in the United States; newspaper articles and complete issues of newspapers; a typed and autographed list of members of the House of...
Dates:
1848-1941; undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Sam B. Woods papers
Sarah Bovard papers
Collection — Folder S146
Identifier: S0146
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed diary from Sarah Bovard in Indiana ranging from 1859 to 1871 and a typed copy of "The Bovards of California and U.S.A." and "Six Biographic Sketches" by Reverend John Gabrielson of California, undated.
Dates:
1859-1871
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Sarah Bovard papers
