Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1537 Collections and/or Records:
Virgil Davis collection
Collection — Folder S0341
Identifier: S0341
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 5 items from Virgil Davis in Indiana ranging from 1803 to 1967, which consist of a notebook listing the deceased in Bethlehem Cemetery, people registered and not registered to vote, Baptist churches in Franklin County, Indiana, and participants in a speaker's bureau (circa 1803-1935); a program for a Jubilee meeting of Harmony Church (May 26, 1887); a binder entitled "Showalter Articles, American Legion History, Other Term Papers" containing U.S. history term papers...
Dates:
1803-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Virgil Davis collection
Virgil I. Grissom papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0548
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed, signed letter from Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom in Houston, Texas on 1964/04/28 regarding George McCullough's support for the space program. There is also an oversize folder with posters regarding Grissom from July 1961 (OBC211).
Dates:
1964/04/28; 1961 July
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Virgil I. Grissom papers
Virginia Ellis Jenckes collection
Collection
Identifier: L374
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of Virginia Ellis Jenckes’s congressional papers. Also included are correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to the Agriculture Waste Recovery Project (1933–1943) and other efforts to help farmers during the Depression; flood control on the Wabash and White Rivers; railroads; women’s rights; education; and Communists in America, as well as her opposition to Communist radio broadcasts. The collection also contains papers relating to her political...
Dates:
1918-1951
Von A. Eichhorn papers
Collection
Identifier: L266
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from Von A. Eichhorn and others in Indianapolis and other cities in Indiana; newspaper clippings, departmental reports; committee reports, minutes and administrative papers; maps; photographs; agendas; memoranda; Senate and House bills; and newsletters ranging from 1938 to 1978 regarding state legislation, committee reports and studies, political news and analysis, statistics and financial information.
Dates:
1938-1978, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Von A. Eichhorn papers
W. H. Kelly, World War I postcards
Collection — Folder S2765
Identifier: S2765
Scope and Contents
This collection contains primarily photographic postcards with images from Llano Grande, Texas and other camps during World War I created by W. H. Kelly. The reverse sides of the postcards contain descriptions and messages to his family.
Dates:
1914-1918
W. H. Roane letter
Collection — Folder S1120
Identifier: S1120
Scope and Contents
This letter is written in ink on one folded sheet of parchment. The letter is from Washington, March 28, 1840, addressed to I. D. P. Brown, and signed W. H. Roane. Mr. Roane discusses the 1840 presidential election, which was between William Henry Harrison, a Whig from Ohio, with John Tyler as his running mate, and Martin Van Buren, a Democrat from New York, who had no vice president on the ticket. Mr. Roane wrote: "The country will be saved from the ignoring of suffering a hungry...
Dates:
1840
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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W. H. Roane letter
Walker and Flora Kittle papers
Collection — Folder S0788
Identifier: S0788
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Walker Kittle's letters of recommendation from the Union Pacific System (October 17, 1890) and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (September 21, 1891); his Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America, Missimer Lodge No. 50 certificate of membership (December 18, 1891) and letter of recommendation from the lodge (1892); his vehicle licenses to own, control and operate a bicycle (1898, 1901, and 1902) and a one-horse buggy (1910) in...
Dates:
1890-1911
Walker family collection
Collection
Identifier: L369
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, various documents, photographs, and memorabilia from the Walker family of New Albany, Indiana. The collection contains Francis Walker's Clermont (Ohio) Academy writings; his and his wife Mary's family correspondence (1851-1913); his correspondence from other Methodist ministers and DePauw University officials (1860s-1910); his and Mary's writings (1848-1901); and some letters and documents of his father, James Walker (1820-1837). The bulk of...
Dates:
1820-1988, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Walker family collection
Waller Taylor letters
Collection — Folder S1287
Identifier: S1287
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of letters from the John C. Short papers in the Library of Congress from November 4, 1812, to May 16, 1815, plus one letter dated December 15, 1816, which was typed and donated by Dorothy Riker. The letters are addressed to John C. Short in Cincinnati, Ohio. The 1816 letter is to Major Edmund H. Taylor, receiver of public monies in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Dates:
1812-1816
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Waller Taylor letters
Walter D. Myers papers
Collection
Identifier: L115
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, papers, newspaper and magazine clippings, political speeches, programs, name badges, buttons, and pins from Walter D. Myers and others in Indianapolis, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1905 to 1969, regarding Myers' education, career, political and family life, and achievements.
There are also Myers' certificate of appointment from 1940 and a newspaper clipping from 1948 (OB188).
There are also Myers' certificate of appointment from 1940 and a newspaper clipping from 1948 (OB188).
Dates:
1905-1969, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Walter D. Myers papers
