Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 213 Collections and/or Records:
Richard L. Roudebush papers
Collection
Identifier: L612
Scope and Contents
The collection is predominantly made up of correspondence between Richard Roudebush and various officials and constituents during the 89th, 90th and 91st U.S. Congresses (1966-1969).The collection includes correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to legislation on agriculture, air traffic safety, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, housing programs and other civil rights measures, defense spending, crime, flood control in the Colorado River Basin and the Wabash River Valley, air...
Dates:
1960-1976
Richard W. Thompson collection
Collection
Identifier: L158
Scope and Contents
The collection consists principally of Richard W. Thompson’s political correspondence, including correspondence regarding state and national Whig and Republican party politics, and Thompson’s role in political campaigns (1840s-1880s); letters from constituents during his terms in Congress regarding political appointments and local politics (1841-1849); Civil War correspondence, including correspondence regarding state and national politics and Thompson’s duties in Terre Haute (1861-1865); his...
Dates:
1818-1931
Robert Bracken papers
Collection — Folder S2234
Identifier: S2234
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of correspondence sent to Robert Bracken, including an April 12, 1924 letter from D.C. Stephenson asking for influence in getting state funds for deposit for the Lincoln Savings Bank of Evansville; a November 6, 1925 letter from former Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray from Atlanta, Georgia asking Bracken, as a member of the Board of Finance, to help him and contact James A. Finch, a pardon attorney in the Department of Justice; and a circa 1925 note from...
Dates:
1922-1925
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robert Bracken papers
Robert Dale Owen correspondence
Collection — Folder S3348
Identifier: S3348
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter from Robert Dale Owen to J.L. Thompson in New York City, New York on January 25, 1843 regarding candidates for the upcoming presidential election during the mid 1840s.
Dates:
1843/01/25
Robert K. Kyle collection
Collection
Identifier: L312
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal and publicized writings, scrapbooks, clippings and photographs from Robert K. Kyle ranging from 1900 to 1978. It also contains correspondence from his time working as a newspaper editor at the Indianapolis Star and chair of the Department of Conservation for the State of Indiana.
There are also blueprints for the home of Robert K. Kyle and an Indianapolis Press Club award from 1974 (OBC090).
There are also blueprints for the home of Robert K. Kyle and an Indianapolis Press Club award from 1974 (OBC090).
Dates:
1900-1978
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robert K. Kyle collection
Robert K. Kyle photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P006
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from Robert K. Kyle in Indiana ranging from circa 1867 to 1978 regarding Kyle's daily life, family, work, recreational activities, and retirement.
Dates:
circa 1867-1978
Robert M. Taylor, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: L469
Scope and Contents
The collection contains personal correspondence of various family members, receipts related to properties the Y.W.C.A. owned and operated; a genealogical sketch of the Taylor family’s history, minutes of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society meetings, various broadsides, a single poll book from 1930 that lists voters and their political affiliation, and papers and scrapbooks of the Indianapolis branch of the Y.W.C.A.
Dates:
1868-1971
Robert S. Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: L563
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence and papers from Robert S. Taylor in Indiana, ranging from 1860 to 1918 with the bulk of the materials covering the 1870s-1910s. The papers mostly consist of Taylor’s legal correspondence with an emphasis on his patent cases. Among these materials is correspondence regarding patent cases involving the Fort Wayne Electric Company, Westinghouse, General Electric, American Bell Telephone Company, and various other companies and utilities. The...
Dates:
1860-1918, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robert S. Taylor papers
Roberta West Nicholson collection
Collection
Identifier: L320
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, advertisements, and genealogical materials from Roberta West Nicholson, Meredith Nicholson, Meredith Nicholson, Jr., Eugenie Nicholson Fox, Meredith Nicholson III, Kurt Pantzer, and May Louise Shipp in South America, Indiana, North Carolina, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan ranging from 1861 to 1957 regarding political speeches, family correspondence, investments, advertisements, poems, family photographs, an 1861...
Dates:
1861-1957
Roscoe B. Fleming collection
Collection — Folder S0472
Identifier: S0472
Scope and Contents
This collection has one folder containing "The Story of Indiana" by Roscoe B. Fleming. This is a six-part article about the Ku Klux Klan and prohibition in Indiana politics in the 1920s. He gives a brief biography of D.C. Stephenson, the Grand Dragon of Indiana’s Ku Klux Klan, and his stakes amongst the political elite of the city and state including Governor Ed Jackson, and Indianapolis Mayor John L. Duvall. Fleming discusses Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League...
Dates:
1927 October
