Elections
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Robert M. Taylor, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: L469
Scope and Contents
The collection contains personal correspondence of various family members, receipts related to properties the Y.W.C.A. owned and operated; a genealogical sketch of the Taylor family’s history, minutes of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society meetings, various broadsides, a single poll book from 1930 that lists voters and their political affiliation, and papers and scrapbooks of the Indianapolis branch of the Y.W.C.A.
Dates:
1868-1971
Sarah A. Wrigley collection
Collection — Folder S1466
Identifier: S1466
Scope and Contents
This collection includes four legal documents regarding the political offices held by John Finley in 1832 and 1837 in Indiana, concerning Finley's election to the office of clerk for the Wayne County Circuit Court over Samuel Hannah in August of 1837 and his 1832 appointment as marshall of the sixth district of Indiana in charge of collecting votes for the electoral college election from Governor Noah Noble.
Dates:
1832-1837
The Seed Sower clippings
Collection — Folder S1952
Identifier: S1952
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of articles printed in the supplement of The Seed Sower in 1894. The articles include a list of the Prohibition Party candidates for state offices, the Indiana State Prohibition platform adopted on March 15, 1894, the address given by Chairman P. T. McWhirter at the State Prohibition Convention on March 15th, and the article, "How to Lose a Vote."
Dates:
1894
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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The Seed Sower clippings
Thomas Carr Howe High School mock election booklet
Collection — Folder S2016
Identifier: S2016
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an unbound copy of the Thomas Carr Howe High School Social Studies Department mock election booklet from 1963. Following the Preface, Table of Contents, and Introduction, the booklet is organized into the following sections: General Introduction to Howe Election, Voting Qualifications, Registration Details, Political Parties, Precinct Committeemen, Party Organization, Primary Elections, Declarations of Candidacy, Convention Method of Nomination, Election Boards, Voting...
Dates:
1963 March
Vincennes history collection
Collection
Identifier: L309
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials pertaining to the history of Vincennes, Indiana. Included are proceedings of the Borough of Vincennes, land sales, indentures, land grants, and miscellaneous items related to Vincennes history ranging from 1669 to 1950.There is also an oversize folder containing one placemat from the defunct Marone's Formosa Garden in Vincennes, Indiana, undated, a March 26, 1929 plat map, Knox County election returns, 1818-1826, and transcriptions and photostates...
Dates:
1669-circa 1980
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
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
W.D. Ewing papers
Collection — Folder S446
Identifier: S0446
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an autographed, signed letter from W.D. Ewing in Evansville, Indiana on 1891/02/03 regarding the remustering of the regiment and the election of officers.
Dates:
1891/02/09
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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W.D. Ewing papers
Wendell Willkie photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP152
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs of Wendell Willkie in Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1940 to 1950 and undated, relating to his 1940 presidential campaign, his accomplishments, and his life, as well as his birthplace, Elwood, Indiana, and after his death, his gravesite and the dedication of a bronze tablet in Willkie's honor in the Indiana Statehouse on February 18, 1950.
Dates:
1940-1950, undated
Willard Stout papers
Collection — Folder S2014
Identifier: S2014
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed documents from Willard Stout in Indianapolis, IN in 1938 regarding election registration.
Dates:
1938
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Willard Stout papers
