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Autographs -- Collections

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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Autographs collection

 Collection — Folder S2870
Identifier: S2870
Scope and Contents This collection contains autographs collected by Verne Patty at the Indiana State Museum. Signatures in this collection include Oliver P. Morton, George Ade, Warren T. McCray, Louis Ludlow and Frederick Van Nuys.Item Listing:11 Nov. 1814 - John Paul and William Hendricks15 Nov. 1836 - William Hendricks11 June 1839 - David Wallace29 Nov. 1841 - Noah Noble23 Dec. 1862 - Oliver P. Morton4 Aug. 1863 - Isaac P....
Dates: 1814-1941
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Autographs collection

Flora Gardiner Kling collection

 Collection
Identifier: L344
Scope and Contents The collection includes letters, postcards, photographs, bookplates, ephemera, and scrapbooks received, collected, and compiled by Flora Gardiner Kling in Mount Vernon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1881 to 1938, undated, regarding her hobby collecting bookplates, which included soliciting bookplates from various universities, libraries, authors, poets, illustrators, actors, inventors, scientists, politicans, musicians, performers, and private citizens, as well as corresponding...
Dates: 1881-1938
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Flora Gardiner Kling collection

Indiana authors autographs collection

 Collection — Folder S1484
Identifier: S1484
Scope and Contents This collection contains items, such as correspondence with librarians, with the autographs of authors and writers in Indiana and the United States collected by the Indiana State Library between 1881 and 1955. Autographs include William Herschell, Zona Gale, Frederick Landis, James Whitcomb Riley, Ethel Arnold Tilden and Charles Dudley Warner.
Dates: 1881-1940
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Indiana authors autographs collection

Indiana autographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: L409
Scope and Contents The collection consists of papers from 1832 to 1926, though the bulk of the materials cover 1870-1900. The greater part of this collection consists of correspondence and signed documents, and is mainly important as a collection of autographs. For the most part, the autographs come from Indiana politicians involved at the state and national level of government. Some of the prominent Indianans include: Albert J. Beveridge, William H. English, Oliver P. Morton, James A. Mount, George W. Julian,...
Dates: 1832-1926
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Indiana autographs collection

May E. Colvin floral album

 Collection — Folder S3191
Identifier: S3191
Scope and Contents The collection includes an autograph book with entries from 1880 to 1881. There are signatures, notes, good wishes, poems, and quotations addressed to May Colvin surrounded by images of different flowers.
Dates: 1880-1881
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / May E. Colvin floral album

Miscellaneous autographs collection

 Collection — Folder S1485
Identifier: S1485
Scope and Contents This collection contains items with autographs of well-known Hoosiers and other influential individuals compiled by the Indiana State Library during late 19th and early 20th centuries. Names in the collection include Louis Ludlow, Thomas H. Benton, J.K. Lilly, Arthur B. Ayres and Ferdinand Foch.

A later addition added autographs of Curtis D. Wilking, Imohusken, and Alvin A. Free.
Dates: 1813-1937
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Miscellaneous autographs collection

William Kimberley Palmer scrapbook

 Collection — Volume V149
Identifier: V149
Scope and Contents This collection includes a scrapbook compiled by William Kimberley Palmer containing autographed letters and other documents ranging from 1879 to 1920. Palmer collected signatures from artists, authors, clergyman, congressman, governors, military leaders, presidents, publishers, senators, university presidents, vice presidents other notable persons. Some items of interest in the collection include a handwritten letter from Nikola Tesla, a caricature by Thomas Nast, a small sketch by J. Wells...
Dates: 1879-1920, 1936-1938
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / William Kimberley Palmer scrapbook

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