Authors -- Indiana

A Walk in the Woods with Gene Stratton-Porter photograph collection

Collection — Folder SP179

Identifier: SP179

Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs and positive film strips, most likely taken by Randy Starks and Dave Fulton, in Rome City, Indiana ranging in 1989, depicting actress Joanna Cassidy at the filming of the documentary, A Walk in the Woods with Gene Stratton-Porter, at Porter's Cabin at Wildflower Woods. There are also 4 photographs at a reception in the Indiana Authors' Room at the Indiana State Library where Cassidy received a Sagamore of the Wabash.

Dates: 1989

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / A Walk in the Woods with Gene Stratton-Porter photograph collection

Alexander S. Dowling volume

Collection — Volume V294

Identifier: V294

Scope and Contents This collection includes bound carbon typescripts of three novels, two essays, and seven poems and is dated 1918 on the cover. However, an inscription on the inside cover is dated June 12, 1919, and the preface to "Under the Four" is dated December 28, 1919.This bound collection contains three novels: "Auto-Biography of a Civil War Veteran", about a cadet in military academy who graduates to the Civil War; "Under the Four, or How a Scout Made Good, adventures with the Boy Scouts of...

Dates: 1918

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Alexander S. Dowling volume

Alvah Judson Rogers, James Whitcomb Riley sketch

Collection — Folder S2608

Identifier: S2608

Scope and Contents This collection includes a sketch of James Whitcomb Riley drawn by Alvah Judson Rogers mostly like following his move to Brown County, Indiana in 1940. The pencil drawing depicts Riley in profile wearing his spectacles and is signed A. J. Rogers.

Dates: circa 1940-1960

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Alvah Judson Rogers, James Whitcomb Riley sketch

Alvin F. Harlow letter

Collection — Folder S0591

Identifier: S0591

Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter from Alvin F. Harlow to Miss Nellie Coats, a librarian who worked at the Indiana State Library, on February 6, 1951. His letter mentions Cincinnati artist, Laura Fry, who did wood carving, china painting, and furniture design. He comments on the mission furniture fad and the "monstrosities" of the furniture styles of that time period and included a February 2, 1951 news clipping titled, "California Antiques Held Mostly 'Junky'" that quotes a art expert saying...

Dates: 1951/02

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Alvin F. Harlow letter

Archibald McClelland Hall poems

Collection — Folder S0569

Identifier: S0569

Scope and Contents This collection contains a typewritten volume of poems written by Archibald McClelland Hall from 1901. The collection begins with the prelude, "Idle Hours" and then is followed by poems organized into five books, including "Patriotic Poems," "Poems Devotional," "In Umbra," "Bachelor Loves Ballads," and "Poems Miscellaneous."

Dates: 1901

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Archibald McClelland Hall poems

Benjamin Wilson Smith collection

Collection

Identifier: L146

Scope and Contents This collection includes writings and papers from Benjamin WIlson Smith in Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1858 to 1949, regarding the history of Warrick, Spencer, and White counties, Indiana; Harrison County, West Virginia; Manchester Academy; and the postal system. Also included are his accounts of a trip from Virginia to White County, Indiana in 1846 and an autobiography. Also, his scrapbook of clippings and notes on politics, his advice to students in Dearborn County, Daughters...

Dates: 1858-1949

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Benjamin Wilson Smith collection

Bess Day collection

Collection — Folder S0343

Identifier: S0343

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence and biographical information from various numerous Indiana authors to Bess Day in Anderson, Indiana ranging in 1945 regarding the lives of those authors. The authors who responded to Day's inquiries for information include: Barbara Allee (daughter of author), Fannie B. Blumberg, Kate Gambold (Mrs. John A.) Dyer, Louise Embree, Clotilde Embree Funk, Helen Boyd (Mrs. William Robert) Higgins, Mable Leigh Hunt, Clara Ingram Judson, Ross F. Lockridge, Laura...

Dates: 1945

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Bess Day collection

Blanche Stillson papers

Collection — Folder S2443

Identifier: S2443

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typewritten copy of an article published in the February 25, 1930 Indianapolis News that was written by Blanche Stillson about two portraits of Dr. and Mrs. C. G. McLean that were given to the Herron Art Institute. The article relates Dr. McLean's background and the history of the McLean Female Institute, a seminary for women in Indianapolis that operated for about 15 years before closing shortly after the U.S. Civil War. The article...

Dates: circa 1930

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Blanche Stillson papers

Booth Tarkington collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S2459

Scope and Contents This collection includes letters to and from Booth Tarkington from individuals such as Richard F. Ward, Indianapolis journalist Mary Dyer Lemon, the Silberman brothers (art dealers in New York), typescripts of essays and poems, and other miscellaneous documents. There is also an oversize folder with other materials (OB173).

Dates: 1892-1951

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Booth Tarkington collection

Bruce Calvert correspondence

Collection — Folder S0998

Identifier: S0998

Scope and Contents This collection includes typed, signed letters from Bruce Calvert in Pigeon-Roost-in-the-Woods, New Jersey ranging from 1929/09/24 to 1930/09/25 regarding the Indiana State Library's holdings of "The Open Road."

Dates: 1929/09/24-1930/09/25

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Bruce Calvert correspondence

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