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Authors, American -- Indiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

William Herschell collection

 Collection — Folder OB051
Identifier: OB051
Scope and Contents This collection includes 3 printed items with content created by William M. Herschell in the United States ranging from 1903 to 1940. The first item is a poem, "An Humble Grace" by Herschell, printed with a drawing of an African American man standing at a dinner table with a woman and 3 children, dated Thanksgiving 1903 by Franklin Booth. The second item is the cover page of sheet music (pasted to a board) for the song, "Long Boy" with words by Herschell, music by Barclay Walker, and...
Dates: 1903-1940

William Herschell history and sheet music

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0646
Scope and Contents This collection includes a history of the Indianapolis Gazette and handwritten sheet music from William Herschell in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1916 to 1943, regarding his work as a poet and journalist.
Dates: 1916-1943

William J. Castleman collection

 Collection
Identifier: L367
Scope and Contents The collection includes a typescript of Through Myrtie Barker’s Window, a biography written by Castleman, copyright 1985, and photocopies of materials related to Barker. Also included are photocopies of newspaper clippings dated from June 24, 1958, to March 1985, although most are undated. Photographs are mixed in with the text in later chapters.Folder 1 contains “A Myrtie Barker Album,” a collection of photocopies of clippings which includes Barker’s...
Dates: 1958-1985