Bloomington (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Augspurger papers
Collection — Folder S2902
Identifier: S2902
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed signed letters from Helen C. Augspurger, Ross F. Lockridge, Sr., V.L. Tatlock, J. William Ball and others in New Haven, Connecticut; Bloomington and Logansport, Indiana and other locations; programs schedules; and class records from some of the institutes ranging from 1948 to 1957 regarding the Institutes and arrangements.
Dates:
1948-1957
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Helen Augspurger papers
Henry Clay Duncan speech
Collection — Folder S0388
Identifier: S0388
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two copies of the speech entitled "White Caps in Southern Indiana," read before the Monroe County Historical Society, by H. C. Duncan. The typed manuscript is 19 pages. A penciled note on the first page of the onion-skin copy states: "Published in the Bloomington World Telegram, May 1945."White Caps were active in Indiana from 1857 until 1905 when Governor Winfield Taylor Durbin cracked down on illegal lynchings. Many former White Caps joined the Ku Klux...
Dates:
1865-1930
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry Clay Duncan speech
Henry E. Wahl collection
Collection
Identifier: L172
Scope and Contents
The collection largely consists of letters to and from Henry E. Wahl, Jr. and his family in Bloomington, Indiana, California, Hawaii, the Philippines, and the Pacific theatre, ranging from 1936 to circa 1953, regarding family life, work after college, and experiences during and after World War II in the Pacific. There are also many letters from other family members to his parents, Maude and Henry Ethan Wahl, Sr., including those of his brother Donald Wahl, who was also serving in the U.S....
Dates:
1865-1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry E. Wahl collection
Hezlep W. Clark papers
Collection — Folder S2015
Identifier: S2015
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an autographed, signed document from Hezlep W. Clark in Bloomington, Indiana [?] on May 15, 1905 regarding poetry.
Dates:
1905/05/15
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hezlep W. Clark papers
Indiana Union Board program booklet
Collection — Folder S1593
Identifier: S1593
Scope and Contents
This is a 20-page typed booklet giving the program for the first reunion of the Indiana Union Board Members from 1909-1935. The reunion was held on November 22, 1935, at the Indiana Union Building of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Former president and current professor Arthur B. Leible presented "A Journal Through the Minutes of the Union Board from 1909 to 1932." Some of the subjects Professor Leible mentioned were the sale of the barbershop, installation of a telephone, cuspidors...
Dates:
1935
Isaac Jenkinson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0720
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters to and fron Isaac Jenkinson with politicians and acquaintances in Washington, D.C., Indiana, and other parts of the United States ranging from 1869 to 1920 regarding national politics, education, various personal and professional matters, and his writings on Aaron Burr. There are two certificates regarding the appointment of Jenkinson as U.S. consul to Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain and its acknowledgement by the British government in 1869 (OBC157).
Dates:
1869-1920
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Isaac Jenkinson papers
Jim Hermsen Vietnam War protest collection
Collection
Identifier: L267
Scope and Contents
This collection contains organizational papers, press releases, flyers, ephemera, buttons, correspondence, pamphlets, periodicals, articles, and other publications from Jim Hermsen in Bloomington, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1965 to 1971 and undated, regarding anti-Vietnam War organizations, conferences, demonstrations, and other activities, particularly the People's Peace Treaty and the May Day protests in 1971.There are also three folders of oversize materials,...
Dates:
1965-1971, undated
John Alfred Snook autobiography
Collection — Folder S1215
Identifier: S1215
Scope and Contents
There are two items in this collection: (1) Autobiography of John Alfred Snook (original and photocopy), and (2) letter to Louise Rebecca Rarick of Bloomington, Indiana, from "Aunt Floss" (Flossie Nina Bellinger), Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The autobiography consists of nine typed pages, beginning in the year of John's birth (1857) and ending in 1944 on page 8, with the last half of page 8 and page 9 written by one of his daughters. She gives her father's death date of December 9, 1950. The letter to...
Dates:
1857-1973
John W. Cravens, Indiana University essay
Collection — Folder S2317
Identifier: S2317
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a carbon copy of a typed essay written by John Cravens as part of a three-part series titled “Buildings on the Old and New Campuses of Indiana University.” The essay was the first part of the series and was published as an article in the January 1922 Indiana University Alumni Quarterly under the subheading “The Old Seminary Building.” The article relates the politics behind the selection of the site of the university first known as...
Dates:
1922
Lenore Livingston Knight collection
Collection — Folder S1437
Identifier: S1437
Scope and Contents
There are 16-typed pages in this collection of poems written by Lenore Livingstone Knight, perhaps while she was a student at Indiana University in Bloomington. On the front page, written in pencil, it says: "Presented to Lewis B. Richardson by the author." Several of the poems are about unrequited love. On page 9, she wrote: "I love you but you do not know, my heart calls to you wherever you go. Wherever you wander, wherever you roam, come back to me, love, my heart calls you home."...
Dates:
circa 1930