Artists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Floyd D. Hopper artwork and papers
Collection
Identifier: L463
Scope and Contents
The collection is unique in that it includes his early works from his first time at the John Herron Art School (1929-1933) as well as personal journals Hopper kept listing the sales, exhibits, and loans of his artwork during a large portion of his career. The collection also includes exhibit programs and photographs of some of his later works.Oversize items include Hopper's design for a stained glass window to be placed in a library, the design of a library room, a charcoal drawing...
Dates:
1929-1980
Floyd D. Hopper autumn hills painting
Collection — Frame A023
Identifier: A023
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a painting of an autumn scene created by Floyd D. Hopper in 1960 for the Indiana State Library Staff Association during a meeting. He later returned to touch up the painting. The painting hung in the staff room at the library for many years before being transferred into the care of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division.
Dates:
1960
Frederick Polley collection
Collection
Identifier: L438
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of sketches and sketch reproductions by Frederick Polley in Indiana ranging from 1923 to 1946.
Dates:
1923-1946
Frederick Polley, Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument etching
Collection — Folder S2576
Identifier: S2576
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an etching of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana by Frederick Polley circa 1920-1950. The work is signed in the lower, right hand corner by the artist.
Dates:
circa 1920-1950
Gaar Williams collection
Collection
Identifier: L178
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 12 paperback portfolios each containing 25 Gaar Williams cartoons reprinted from the Chicago Tribune, with a foreward written by cartoonist, John T. McCutcheon. According to an ad in the Tribune's December 17, 1940 edition, the portfolios where printed as a special Christmas box set. Also included are 321 clippings of Williams' cartoons (circa 1927-1935) that were reprinted and published in the ...
Dates:
1939-1951
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Gaar Williams collection
Gustave Baumann, Summer Breeze woodcut print
Collection — Folder A005
Identifier: A005
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a single color wood block print of a house backed by trees created by Gustave Baumann in 1935. The print is numbered 40 out of 100 and is signed by the artist. It includes Baumann's artists seal of an opened palm of a hand on top of a heart.
Dates:
1935
Harry H. Coburn photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: SP032
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from Harry H. Coburn in Indianapolis and Greenfield, Indiana ranging from 1913 to 1927, regarding the impact of the 1913 flood on the White River and the surrounding areas, such as Riverside Park, near downtown Indianapolis; James Whitcomb Riley attending his final birthday celebration at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis (October 7, 1915) and the parade at the the Riley celebration in Greenfield, Indiana (October, 1925); and events in Indianapolis during...
Dates:
1913-1927
Hibben family papers
Collection
Identifier: L069
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, invitations and calling cards, accounts, stamps, newspaper clippings, membership cards, legal documents, and other papers, as well as photographs, negatives, lantern slides, artwork, textiles, and realia from members of the Hibben and Ketcham families in Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, and Europe ranging from circa 1840 to 1937 regarding family, military, legal, and social matters. Much of the early correspondence belonged to Sarah...
Dates:
circa 1840-1937
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hibben family papers
Indiana World Organization of China Painters collection
Collection
Identifier: L489
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, conference brochures, painting lessons, and board meeting minutes from the Indiana World Organization of China Painters (IWOCP) and several guilds in Evansville, Indianapolis, Kokomo, and LaPorte, Indiana ranging from 1968 to 2004 and undated, regarding china painting, the organization, and individual members.
Dates:
1968-2004
Indianapolis Public Library Hilton U. Brown Branch oral history transcripts
Collection
Identifier: OH008
Scope and Contents
This collection contains transcripts of oral history interviews with residents of Irvington, once a town in Marion County, and now a neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1978 to 1987. The interviews were conducted primarily by Lois Leamon and others for Indianapolis Public Library, Hilton U. Brown Branch's Irvington Oral History Project. The transcripts include historical information about the town-cum-neighborhood and the people who lived there.
Dates:
1978-1987
