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Authors -- Indiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:

Myrtie Barker collection

 Collection
Identifier: L583
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, newspaper articles, clippings, manuscripts, books, family papers, awards, and other materials from Myrtie Barker and the Barker family in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1907 to 1985 regarding her career as a writer and family life. There is also an oversize folder with a Sagamore of the Wabash award certificate, 1981/01/07; signed card from Indianapolis News staff, undated, and I Am...
Dates: 1907-1985

Myrtie Barker photograph collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP003
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of Myrtie L. Barker, as well as one photograph of her mother, Mary A. Barker, ranging from circa 1910 to 1960s. Other photographs were taken during her career as a columnist for the Indianapolis News. Several photographs show Barker at a book signing for >Where is Everybody?, released in 1968.
Dates: circa 1910-circa 1960

Myrtillus Satterthwaite collection

 Collection — Folder OBD003
Identifier: OBD003
Scope and Contents This collection contains the galley proof for Hoosier Courtships in the Buggy Days and related advertising materials by Myrtillus Satterthwaite circa 1943. Satterthwaite relates situations he has known (many are recollections of his family) or stories he has heard. The geographical setting of the book is southern Indiana, including Edinburg and Shelbyville, as well as Johnson County, Shelby County, and Jennings County. The book covers more than courtship,...
Dates: circa 1943

Oral history and audio collection

 Collection
Identifier: L640
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the breadth of the oral history collection at the Indiana State Library, ranging from circa 1904 to 2019. The bulk of the collection contains oral histories created during the ISL Oral History Project during the 1960s-1980s and recordings of events, meetings, recitations, and radio interviews created and acquired by library staff during that period. The remainder are oral histories created by various outside institutions and organizations, such as universities, public...
Dates: circa 1904-2019

Paul Seehausen papers

 Collection
Identifier: L140
Scope and Contents The collection includes Paul Seehausen’s correspondence regarding his work on Land of the Great Lakes and other textbook projects (1950-1964). Also included are correspondence, newsletters, programs, and other papers relating to adult education programs (1947-1964); annual reports on adult education programs submitted to Indiana University (1945-1949); notes, reports, speeches, and other papers on education, civics, state and national history, the teaching of...
Dates: 1935-1965

Portrait engravings collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3408
Scope and Contents This collection includes many different engraving types and styles from the early 1800s to the early 1900s and encompasses many of Indiana's historic figures. The names are listed below by folder.Folder 1: A. W. Brayton, J. A. Howard, Joseph Holman, John A. Hendricks, William Henry Harrison, Charles White, R. Winton, W. W. Woollen, John Lambert Richmond, Gilbert Hathaway, Joseph Albert Wright, Robert Owen , Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, Robert Morrison, Benjamin Harrison,...
Dates: 1822-1934

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

Ric Hasse papers

 Collection
Identifier: L531
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eight short stories, a draft of a novel, Tournament Tramp, written by Ric Hasse under the pen name Jud Parish, and notes and two chapters of an unknown novel. The collection is arranged alphabetically by story title.
Dates: 1949-1956

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

Richard Lee Dawson photographs

 Collection — Folder SP066
Identifier: SP066
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs of Richard Lew Dawson in the United States ranging from 1886 to circa 1900. The 1886 photograph includes Alonzo Hilton Davis and Robert McIntyre.
Dates: 1886-circa 1900