Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Edna May Green papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2627
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, tear sheets, music copyrights, stock certificates, sheet music, news clippings, songs, poems, other writings, and a photograph from Edna May Green in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1918 to 1954, regarding Edna May Green, her compositions and other works. Correspondants, include Josiah K. Lilly and various music publishers; most correspondence deals with Green's attempts to have her music more widely played and recognized. The tear sheets and...
Dates:
1918-1954
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Edna May Green papers
Elisha and Lucinda Cox family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2052
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of tax receipts and promissory notes of Elisha and Lucinda Cox ranging from 1819 to 1850. The collection also includes a poem about a January 10, 1820 dual in Lawrenceburg, Indiana; a September 3, 1824 indenture between Cox and David Shook for property in Lawrenceburg; a January 9, 1847 Probate Court document appointing Lucinda guardian of her children John A.J., Malinda, and Elisha William, the heirs of Elisha; and pages from a October 1860 pattern book. The...
Dates:
1819-1860; circa 1888
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 1881 to 1938, undated, regarding her hobby collecting bookplates, which included soliciting bookplates from various universities, libraries, authors, poets, illustrators, actors, inventors, scientists, politicans, musicians, performers, and private citizens, as well as corresponding...
Dates:
1881-1938
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
