Autobiography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Archibald Shaw autobiography
Collection — Folder S1168
Identifier: S1168
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a 100-page copy of the "Autobiography of Archibald Shaw," ranging from 1765 to 1934, regarding his family history, including the names of Shaw, Rous, Fitch, and more.
Dates:
undated
Benjamin Wilson Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: L146
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Benjamin WIlson Smith’s writings about the history of Warrick, Spencer, and White counties, Indiana and Harrison County, West Virginia, Manchester Academy and the postal system. Also included are his accounts of a trip from Virginia to White County in 1846 and an autobiography. Also, his scrapbook of clippings and notes on politics, his advice to students in Dearborn County, Daughters of the American Revolution applications for his family, correspondence with his...
Dates:
1858-1949
C. Earl Suffrins blank book
Collection
Identifier: V261
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a "Blank Book" manufactured by the William B. Burford Company of Indianapolis, Indiana and used by C. Earl Suffrins starting on February 7, 1905 to record the books that he had read by a number of authors. Much of the volume is empty, but in the back there are several handwritten pages of notes written by his father, Charles A. Suffrin, about his "Life Story." Also tucked in the back cover are a few more handwritten notes, one with gardening directions and two with...
Dates:
1905 and undated
Chic Jackson collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0710
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 2 prints of Chic Jackson’s "Roger Bean" comic strip released by the George Matthew Adams Service on June 29 and 30, 1928, a pen and ink drawing of his characters Woody and Yank (1922), a drawing of “Golduh the Maid” created for Arcada S. Balz, a friend who later became the first woman to serve in the Indiana Senate (circa 1920s), and a typed biographical sketch of Jackson that was sent to Miss Esther McNitt, a librarian at the Indiana State Library, on November 4, 1933....
Dates:
1922-1933
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Chic Jackson collection
Claude M. Gray papers
Collection
Identifier: L540
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, military documents, a diary, photographs and postcards, realia, and other papers from Claude M. Gray in Indiana, the United States, and France, ranging from 1910 to 1948, regarding his education at Rose Polytechnic Institute, his service during World War I, and daily life.Military records include telegrams, transport orders, and bulletins, pay record book, tickets, and identification cards, as well as Gray's World War I diary, World War I...
Dates:
1910-1948
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Claude M. Gray papers
David I. McCormick papers
Collection — Folder S869
Identifier: S0869
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a discharge certificate, a catalogue of flags carried by Indiana regiments in the Mexican, Civil, and Spanish-American wars, and a typed autobiography from David I. McCormick in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1898 to 1929, regarding personal reminiscences, family history, Owen County, politics, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War.
Dates:
1898-1929
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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David I. McCormick papers
Dorothea J. Snow autobiographical documents
Collection — Folder S1216
Identifier: S1216
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one biographical sketch and author's questionnaire from Dorothea J. Snow circa 1958.
Dates:
circa 1958
Ellsworth Walls collection
Collection — Folder S1353
Identifier: S1353
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a 35-page autobiographical manuscript from Ellsworth Walls on December 14, 1936 covering his life from May 21, 1865 (his birth) to September 15, 1936 (the date of his wife Sarah's death).
Dates:
1936/12/14
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ellsworth Walls collection
Franklin Elmer Brown papers
Collection — Folder S177
Identifier: S0177
Scope and Contents
This collection includes carbon and mimeographed copies from Franklin Elmer Brown in Arizona ranging from 1865 to May 8, 1945 regarding his autobiography.
Dates:
1865-1945
George Knight Hester collection
Collection — Folder S2185
Identifier: S2185
Scope and Contents
There are four items in this collection: (1) Rev. George Knight Hester's 1851 Diary, which is really a memoir, consisting of 18 typed pages; (2-3) a partial letter from Saguaches, Colorado, written on November 14, no year, to "Sister dear" on brown paper with no signature, accompanied by a transcription of the letter; and (4) "Papers Relating To The Hester Family" compiled by the Indiana State Library, 1926. The 1851 document gives the family history from Germany to America,...
Dates:
1851, 1926
