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Essays

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

James Eli Watson papers

 Collection
Identifier: L237
Scope and Contents The collection consists of school papers, speeches, correspondence, and other papers of James Eli Watson ranging from 1879 to 1913. Also included are a collection of U.S. and foreign stamps and a stamp album.

There are also oversize newspapers dated 1890-1913 (OBC032).
Dates: 1879-1913

James Whitcomb Riley collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: L135
Scope and Contents The collection contains James Whitcomb Riley’s letters to Kentucky author Madison Cawein, general correspondence, and manuscript poems written by Riley, as well as other materials, ranging from 1876 to 1940. Also included are printed copies of Riley’s poems, essays, and newspaper stories about Riley.

There are also broadsides and printed portraits of Riley, ranging from 1900 to 1947 and undated (OBD038).
Dates: 1876-1947

John W. Cravens, Indiana University essay

 Collection — Folder S2317
Identifier: S2317
Scope and Contents This collection includes a carbon copy of a typed essay written by John Cravens as part of a three-part series titled “Buildings on the Old and New Campuses of Indiana University.” The essay was the first part of the series and was published as an article in the January 1922 Indiana University Alumni Quarterly under the subheading “The Old Seminary Building.” The article relates the politics behind the selection of the site of the university first known as...
Dates: 1922

Kenneth Noe, "Old Tippecanoe and the Historians: A Bibliographic Essay on William Henry Harrison" manuscript

 Collection — Folder S2301
Identifier: S2301
Scope and Contents This collection contains a copy of "Old Tippecanoe and the Historians: A Bibliographic Essay on William Henry Harrison," an unpublished seminar paper written by Kenneth W. Noe while a graduate student at the University of Illinois. The essay is 21 typewritten pages in length, with an additional 10 pages of bibliographic reference notes.
Dates: 1986

Leslie Sulgrove collection

 Collection
Identifier: L153
Scope and Contents The papers consist of correspondence, receipts, and treasurer’s book for the Crescent Society and the Alumni Society of Indianapolis High School (1871–1885) in which Leslie Sulgrove served as an officer. Included are receipts and correspondence regarding his personal business, school essays, programs for Indianapolis social events, and a ciphering book of John D. Brackenridge, Bath County, Kentucky (1816).
Dates: 1816-1894

Lloyd Whitmer collection

 Collection — Folder S1859
Identifier: S1859
Scope and Contents This collection includes two typewritten copies of "The Change - From Buns to Bobs: A Study of Modes of Hairdressing on Ladies in Tell City Fifty Years Ago (1920-1930)," a report and program given by Lloyd Whitmer to the Tell City Historical Society in October 1975. The report includes an appendices containing typewritten transcriptions of the 1925 Saturday Evening Post article, "Erstwhile Crowning Glory"; excerpts of the articles "Why I...
Dates: 1961-1975

Lucien V. Rule collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2141
Scope and Contents This collection includes Lucien V. Rule’s typewritten copies of correspondence of the Barbour family (1853-1862) and his personal and professional correspondence, documents, and newspaper clippings regarding his family, ministry, and historical and literary pursuits (1921-1923). The collection also includes copies of Rule’s poems and essays, including “Samuel Shannon, Giant of God in Old Salem Presbytery,” “Pen Portraits of Presbyterian Pioneers,” and “Dupes of Destiny: Tragic and Bitter...
Dates: 1853-1862, 1921-1937

Margaret E. Bruner papers

 Collection
Identifier: L557
Scope and Contents This collection includes business papers, family materials and photographs, personal and business correspondence, poetry published in newspapers and magazines, and other materials from Margaret E. Bruner, her family, and other writers, in Indiana and New York ranging from 1865 to 1971, regarding women authors, family matters, poetry, writing, religion, friendship, and the publishing industry.
Dates: 1965-1971

Mary E. Kinnick essay

 Collection — Folder S0783
Identifier: S0783
Scope and Contents This collection contains a short handwritten essay on flowers in the hills and meadows with religious themes by Mary E. Kinnick and dated May 7, 1869.
Dates: 1869 May 7

Mary Faye Hite, "Dreams Do Happen" manuscript

 Collection — Folder S2296
Identifier: S2296
Scope and Contents This collection includes a copy of "Dreams Do Happen," a manuscript containing a collection of essays written by Mary Faye Hite and compiled in circa 1980. The essays cover a variety of topics, including family history, country and pioneer living, nature, travel, and historic people, places, and events. Many essays have a patriotic theme and one essay, "Political Issues," relays her opinion regarding the Equal Rights Amendment, and how estates should be settled. Another essay, "Home Remedies,"...
Dates: circa 1980