Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 129 Collections and/or Records:
Emma Shields Nunemacher Carleton scrapbook
Collection — Volume V031
Identifier: V031
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an Elmhurst Hymnal (circa 1921) that Emma Carleton used as a scrapbook. The scrapbook contains a number of letters sent to her by Daniel L. Paine, an Indianapolis poet and newspaperman, from 1888 to 1895 and two undated photographs, one of 4 unidentified women and another with the description "Majorie L, age 7, taken on the school house steps." The scrapbook also includes newspaper clippings regarding Paine's death in May 1895, undated writings by Mrs....
Dates:
1888-circa 1921
E.W.H. Ellis papers
Collection — Folder S419
Identifier: S0419
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a newspaper clipping from Dr. E.W.H. Ellis in Goshen, Indiana 1858/02/24 regarding Old Settler's meeting and reunion.
Dates:
1858/02/24
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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E.W.H. Ellis papers
Ezra G. Hayes personal narrative
Collection — Folder S614
Identifier: S0614
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three typewritten copies of the life story of Ezra G. Hayes that he dictated to Caroline M. Hayes. Hayes' narrative ranges from 1705 to the early 1900s. This collection was made from a copy owned by Mrs. Jacob Bauer of Lawrenceburg, Indiana in 1933 and it includes Mr. Hayes' family history, his many business pursuits, early history of Dearborn County, Indiana, and his viewpoints on the politics and elections during his lifetime. Also included are three copies of a poem...
Dates:
circa 1910
Flora Gardiner Kling collection
Collection
Identifier: L344
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters, postcards, photographs, bookplates, ephemera, and scrapbooks received, collected, and compiled by Flora Gardiner Kling in Mount Vernon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from _ to _, regarding her hobby collecting bookplates, which included soliciting bookplates from various authors, poets, illustrators, actors, inventors, scientists, politicans, musicians, and private citizens, as well as corresponding with other bookplate collectors. ...
Dates:
1886-1938
Florence Heywood collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2476
Scope and Contents
This collection includes four journals used by Florence Heywood to record her daily activities from March 1893 to November 1895 while attending the Classical School for Girls in Indianapolis, her composition book from circa 1894, the undated poem, "O'er the Sea," and the undated composition, "The Visit of an Unsophisticated Traveller to Sicily and Egypt."This collection also includes catalogs from the Classical School for Girls for the years 1883/84, 1885/86, 1886/87, 1888/89,...
Dates:
1883-1903, undated
Frances Fox Miller collection
Collection — Folder S3297
Identifier: S3297
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various materials collected by Frances Fox Miller throughout her career. Included is a pamphlet entitled "A Flag is Born" about Muncie, Indiana's flag, a xerox copy of a letter from Robert Branigin appointing Miller to a post with Indian Education, issues of "The Shoe Box Times", and the poem "Life flowing incessantly" by Miller.
Dates:
1974-1980
Frances Marvel Gnass collection
Collection
Identifier: L042
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items from Frances Marvel Gnass’s family, including Joseph Brown’s ciphering book of mathematical operations and business accounting practices (1840-1843); a promissory note for payment to Isaac Brown (1857), and a page of accounting notations of the Brown family (1869-1877); Edith Walker’s autograph book (1888-1893); and a full-page from the Crawfordsville Journal and Review that lists soldiers buried in Montgomery County, Indiana by...
Dates:
1840-2008
Frederick B. Wilson, "A Tribute to the Great Pyramid" poem
Collection — Folder S2224
Identifier: S2224
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a copy of Frederick B. Wilson's poem, "A Tribute to the Great Pyramid" of Gizeh (now spelled Giza), Egypt. Written in May 1950 and revised in December 1950, the poem includes a September 15, 1950 note of introduction signed by Wilson and key definitions of the stanzas in the poem that were added when the poem was revised. Also included is a cover page with the handwritten note, "To a Kind Friend, Mrs. Hazel Hopper, September 7, 1951."
Dates:
1950-1951
George Blair papers
Collection — Folder S129
Identifier: S0129
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a signed, autographed letter from Josephine Niles in Indianapolis, Indiana to her cousin Marietta in New York and a portion of poetry, "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," written by the poet, Rose Hartwick Thorpe in Mishawaka, Indiana ranging from 1845 to 1880 regarding life in school and dealing with difficulties.
Dates:
1847/10/19
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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George Blair papers
Hannah Hollingsworth papers
Collection — Folder S671
Identifier: S0671
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed poems and songs from an unnamed poet and a copy of a letter written by Frederick Briggs and a preface written by William Glending in Virginia and unknown locations ranging from 1789 to 1851 regarding death, love, life and other subjects.
Dates:
1789-1851