Spiritualists -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Dale Owen collection
Collection
Identifier: L122
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Robert Dale Owen's correspondence and writings (1826-1877), as well as correspondence of Lottie Kellogg Owen and the Kellogg family of New York and Philadelphia (1827-1904). The Owen papers include his family correspondence with father, Robert Owen (1852-1854), daughter, Rosamond (1872-1877), and a letter regarding New Harmony from his brother, William Owen (1827). Additional writings and papers relate to spiritualism, politics, social issues, condolences following the...
Dates:
1826-1904
Tilghman Howard Swaim collection
Collection — Folder S1276
Identifier: S1276
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a two-part biography of Jehu B. Swaim from Parke County, Indiana, written by his son Tilghman Howard Swaim, in 1923, regarding his father's life, including life in North Carolina, life as a pioneer after moving to Parke COunty, and his vocations as a farmer, blacksmith, shoemaker and mail carrier, ,as well as, purportedly, his afterlife based on "telepathic communications" T. Howard Swaim claims to have received form his spirit.
Dates:
1923
Timothy Stratton letter
Collection — Folder S1263
Identifier: S1263
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a photostatic copy of a letter from Timothy Stratton in New Mt. Pleasant, Indiana, on March 29, 1852, to Casper and Calista Ann Budd in Waveland, Indiana, regarding the changing seasons, the passage of time, his mortality and inevitable death, farming, and seances held at his house and his theories about the summoning of spirits.
Dates:
1852/03/29
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Timothy Stratton letter
William H. Blodgett scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: L372
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two scrapbooks from William H. Blodgett in Anderson, New Castle, and Richmond, Indiana; Illinois; and elsewhere in the United States, ranging from 1858 to 1895 and undated. The scrapbooks contain correspondence, checks, advertisement cards, newspaper clippings, programs, and a ribbon. The first scrapbook (1858-1884, 1895) concerns numerous topics, including politics, business, religion, crime, sports, temperance, police corruption, and other current and local events...
Dates:
1858-1895
