Essays
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:
Indiana Extension Homemakers Association collection
Collection
Identifier: L330
Scope and Contents
This collection contains essays on Indiana folklore that were entered in the 1979-1980 contest sponsored by the Indiana Extension Homemakers Association. The collection contains all essays submitted from around the state and includes a booklet containing the winning entries.
Dates:
1979-1980
Isaac and Benjamin Beeson papers
Collection
Identifier: L354
Scope and Contents
This collection contains both personal and business records, including receipts, account sheets, order forms, invoices, promissory notes, account books, indentures, deeds, legal documents, correspondence, maps, clippings, publications, meeting minutes, advertisements, recipes, photographs, notes, papers, and ephemera from Isaac W. Beeson and Benjamin B. Beeson in Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1809 to 1945 and undated, regarding their daily lives, family, business, politics, and...
Dates:
1809-1945
Jacob Moorehouse Ward, Sr. collection
Collection — Folder S1357
Identifier: S1357
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed copies of poems and essays by Jacob Moorehouse Ward, Sr. written from 1838 to 1847, transcribed by descendant Merton W. Grills in 1935.There are also essays by other authors, collected by Ward, such as the three-page essay on "The Death of Daniel Webster" by E. C. Baldwin.
Dates:
1935
James Eli Watson papers
Collection
Identifier: L237
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of school papers, speeches, correspondence, invitations, clippings, publications, and other papers from James Eli Watson in Indiana and Washington, D.C., ranging from 1879 to 1913, regarding his education, personal life, and career. Also included are a collection of U.S. and foreign stamps and a stamp album.
There are also oversize newspaper clippings and a speech dated 1890-1913 (OBC032).
There are also oversize newspaper clippings and a speech dated 1890-1913 (OBC032).
Dates:
1879-1913
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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James Eli Watson papers
James Whitcomb Riley collection
Collection
Identifier: L135
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters, postcards, handwritten poems and printed copies, and a calling card from James Whitcomb Riley in Indiana, including a scrapbook of letters from Riley to Kentucky author Madison Cawein, as well as other materials such as clippings, postcards, biographies, regarding Riley, ranging from 1876 to 1947 and undated.
There are also broadsides and printed portraits of Riley, ranging from 1900 to 1947 and undated (OBD038).
There are also broadsides and printed portraits of Riley, ranging from 1900 to 1947 and undated (OBD038).
Dates:
1876-1947
John Tenbrook Campbell papers
Collection
Identifier: L258
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, biographical sketches, a photograph, two scrapbooks, and various writings including editorials, essays, addresses, and poems from John Tenbrook Campbell in Parke County, Indiana and the United States, ranging from circa 1840 to 1911 and undated, regarding his family life and career, military experiences during the U.S. Civil War, business concerning roads and levees, intellectual interests and social concerns, and the...
Dates:
1840-1911, undated
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
John William Leech, "Civil War Southern Sympathies in Blackford County" essay
Collection — Folder S2832
Identifier: S2832
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed copy of a class paper written by John William Leech for the Ball State Teachers College course Social Science 503 on August 20, 1964, entitled "Civil War Southern Sympathies in Blackford County."
Dates:
1964
Karl W. Fischer collection
Collection — Folder S0463
Identifier: S0463
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed carbon copy of an essay written by Karl W. Fischer on August 1, 1946, regarding the murder of Thurza Oyler Hinshaw in 1895 and subsequent trial of her husband, Rev. William E. Hinshaw. There is a newspaper clipping from New York Sunday News dated September 1, 1946.
Dates:
1946
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Karl W. Fischer collection
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
