Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
Anthony J. Lauck papers
Collection
Identifier: L088
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters from family members, friends and military officers in the United States and other countries to Anthony J. Lauck; greeting and postcards and telegrams; magazine and newspaper articles; event programs; invoices; poems; exhibition catalogs; from World War II; and Japanese currency (a 10 note), ranging from 1908 to 1980 regarding art and art business, family, personal, religious, and war matters.There is also a Japanese Imperial Army war flag circa 1941...
Dates:
1908-1980
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Anthony J. Lauck papers
Archibald McClelland Hall poems
Collection — Folder S0569
Identifier: S0569
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a typewritten volume of poems written by Archibald McClelland Hall from 1901. The collection begins with the prelude, "Idle Hours" and then is followed by poems organized into five books, including "Patriotic Poems," "Poems Devotional," "In Umbra," "Bachelor Loves Ballads," and "Poems Miscellaneous."
Dates:
1901
Asa J. Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: L368
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Asa J. Smith’s manuscript, drafts, and notes for a biography of Hiram I. Bearss of Peru, Indiana. Bearss served over 20 years in the United States Marine Corps from the Spanish-American War until World War I, obtaining the rank of brigadier general. A few folders contain items for scrapbooks from Smith’s personal life and other literary interests.
Dates:
1901-1973
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Asa J. Smith collection
"Ballad of Gene Debs" pamphlet
Collection — Folder S3520
Identifier: S3520
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one pamphlet of the "Ballad of Gene Debs" created by Sarah N. Cleghorn and published by The Driftwood Press in North Montpelier, Vermont in July 1928, regarding the arrest and trial of Eugene V. Debs in 1918 for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 after his criticism of America's involement in World War I.
Dates:
1928
Barton W. Bearden papers
Collection — Folder S0087
Identifier: S0087
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two handwritten letters sent by Barton Bearden to his mother while serving with the 124th Indiana Regiment during the U.S. Civil War. The first letter was sent shortly after the Battle of Resaca that took place in Georgia from May 13-15, 1864 and the second, dated October 27, 1864, was written from Cedar Bluff, Alabama. The collection also includes typewritten transcriptions of each letter, a calling card with Bearden's regiment and camp information on the front and a...
Dates:
1864-1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Barton W. Bearden papers
Benjamin F. Phemister papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2259
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a variety of poems written by Benjamin F. Phemister, the "Bard of the Brandywine," ranging from 1917 to 1951 and undated. His poems include "The Stained Gown," written for Memorial Day in 1917; "Yester's Yearning," published in the May 13, 1920 edition of the Journal of Education: New England and National; "The Interview of John Doe with Judge Jackass" from circa 1944; and "Fiddling?"...
Dates:
1897-1951, undated
Brown County collection
Collection — Folder S1650
Identifier: S1650
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a note card with Lottie Lyons Grow's etching of Grassy Creek in Brown County, Indiana printed on the front and a note written inside by Grow to a Mrs. Macdonald dated October 10, 1977. The collection also includes several undated items related to Brown County: a promotional card printed by the Community Club of Nashville with a picture of the "Old Log Jail"; a pamphlet with the poem "In Brown County" by Maude Elizabeth Pate, photographs by Frank M. Hohenberger, and...
Dates:
1977, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Brown County collection
Carl E. Austin, Sr. collection
Collection
Identifier: L275
Scope and Contents
This collection contains military documents, invoices, notes, certificates, poetry, songs, ephemera, photographs, a diary, and a school journal and papers from Carl E. Austin, Sr., Carl E. Austin, Jr., and the Austin and Selb families in Indianapolis, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1910 to 1961, regarding daily and military life, education, travel, business and social interests, and family.The diary of Clara Selb and photographs of the family can also be found in this...
Dates:
1910-1961
Charles R. Stump collection
Collection — Folder S1271
Identifier: S1271
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two typed poems. Each poem is two pages. The first one is entitled "Over Hoosier Trails of Yore," and mentions General Harrison and "his troops up to Tippecanoe"; Pottawotomies relating their grief; and "our praise for the Pioneer Day." Mr. Stump's second poem is "The Frances Slocum Trail." This poem refers to Connor's mill, Miami Indian lore, Glenn Liston Falls, Ma-con-es-quah, "Frances Slocum and her Deaf Man in village here," and Chief Godfroy. He signed the poems...
Dates:
1933
Charles R. Williams papers
Collection — Folder S0772
Identifier: S0772
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter to Louis J. Bailey from Charles R. Williams in Princeton, New Jersey on December 2, 1926 regarding use Williams' poetry in Bailey's publication, his poetry, and an offer to send a copy of his volume of poetry. There is also a volume with handwritten notations detailing the "books in C. R. Williams' Library, April 23, 1901.
Dates:
1901/04/23; 1926/12/02
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Charles R. Williams papers
