Indiana -- Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Arch N. Bobbitt oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH014
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the tapes and transcript drafts of three interviews with Arch N. Bobbitt conducted by Randall Jehs for the Indiana State Library oral history project on August 30, September 11, and September 17, 1974. In the first interview, Bobbitt discusses his childhood and education; how his interest in politics developed; Indiana politics in the 1920s including the influence of the Ku Klux Klan and D. C. Stephenson; and the state gasoline tax department. In the second interview,...
Dates:
1974 August-September; 1978
Edwin K. Steers papers
Collection
Identifier: L244
Scope and Contents
This collection includes legal briefs, political campaign ribbons, newspaper clippings, periodicals, a photograph, and scrapbooks with clippings, correspondence, papers, photographs, documents, ephemera, and ribbons from Edwin K. Steers in Indiana, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., ranging from 1930 to 1964 and undated, concerning his law career, politics, freemasonry, and World War II.There are two oversize periodicals, the July 23, 1944 issue of Yank...
Dates:
1930-1964, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Edwin K. Steers papers
William Wheeler Thornton collection
Collection
Identifier: L159
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, essays, speeches, clipings, and book manuscripts from William Wheeler Thornton in Indiana ranging from 1877 to 1931, circa 2005, and undated, regarding his writings, politics, United States and Indiana law and history, and Judge Isaac Blackford. The first manuscript concerns political documents, beginning with the Magna Carta and ending with those of 19th-century America. There are research, writings, and manuscripts for Thronton's book, ...
Dates:
1877-1931, circa 2005
