Processed by
Paul Stephen Rich
1970
Reprocessed by
Carol Street Potter
5 December 2003
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202–3269
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VOLUME OF |
8 document cases, 25 bound volumes, 1 microfilm reel |
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COLLECTION |
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PROVENANCE: |
Mrs. Joseph H. Iglehart and Mrs. James L. Clifford, September 1966. |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
None |
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COPYRIGHT: |
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REPRODUCTION |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. |
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ACCESSION |
1966.1010 |
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NOTES: |
John E. Iglehart (10 August 1848–18 April 1934) was born in Campbell Township, Warrick County, Indiana, the son of Asa Iglehart (1817–1887) and Ann Cowle (1817–1882). Asa Iglehart was a prominent lawyer and judge in Evansville, Indiana.
John E. Iglehart graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in 1868, and immediately embarked on a career in law at his father’s law firm in Evansville. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1874. Much of John E. Iglehart’s practice throughout his career was as attorney for the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad Company.
Iglehart married Lockie W. Holt on 4 November 1874. They had four children: Eugene H., who married Emily Powers; Ann, who married John Ingle, Jr.; Lockie Holt, who married Charles Humphry; and Joseph H., who married Gertrude Townley.
Iglehart experienced much success in his legal career and turned toward personal pursuits later in life. He was a leader in the founding and activities of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, which encompassed Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, Dubois, Pike, and Gibson counties, and later Knox County. Founded in 1920, the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society promoted the recognition of the importance of the frontier influence of Southern Indiana, with particular emphasis on the recognition of its influence on Abraham Lincoln, who spent ages seven to twenty-one in Spencer County.
Published historical works of Iglehart include History of Indiana from Its Exploration to 1922, vol. 3: An Account of Vanderburgh County from Its Organization (Dayton: Dayton Historical Publishing Co., 1923) and The Environment of Abraham Lincoln in Indiana (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1925). Ida Tarbell, a close acquaintance from his work with the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, paid tribute to him in her book, In the Footsteps of the Lincolns (New York: Harper & Bros., 1924).
Iglehart remained president emeritus of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society until his death in 1934.
Sources:
Dunn, Jacob Piatt. Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1919, v. 5, pp. 1986–1987. General Collection: F526 .D85 I53 1919
Gilbert, Frank M. History of the City of Evansville and Vanderburg [sic] Co., Indiana. Chicago: Pioneer Pub. Co., 1910, v. 2, pp. 181–182, 458–460. General Collection: F532 V2 G5 1910
Roll, Charles. Indiana, One Hundred and Fifty Years of American Development. Chicago: The Lewis Pub. Co., 1931, v.5, pp.488–489. General Collection: F526 .R65 1931
Rich, Paul Stephen. “Iglehart Papers.” Indiana History Bulletin, vol. 47, October 1970, p. 149. General Collection: RR F521 .I36
Taylor, Charles W. Biographical Sketches and Review of the Bench and Bar of Indiana: Containing Biographies and Sketches of Eminent Judges and Lawyers of Indiana, Together With a History of the Judiciary of the State and Review of the Bar from the Earliest Times to the Present, with Anecdotes, Reminiscences, etc. Indianapolis: Bench and Bar Publishing Co., 1895, p. 398. General Collection: F525 .T24 1895
Ancestry.com. Indiana Marriage Records Index, 1845–1920. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. www.ancestry.com. Accessed 1 December 2003.
The papers, which date between 1858 and 1934, include over two thousand letters, Iglehart law firm letterbooks, and minutes of meetings of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society.
Subjects of Mr. Iglehart’s correspondence include Clarence W. Alvord, George Rogers Clark, Abraham Lincoln, the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, the Lincoln Union (formed to create a monument to the Lincolns in Indiana), the bridging of the Ohio River, and Woodrow Wilson.
Iglehart’s correspondence with historians concerning the frontier and Lincoln’s years in Indiana constitutes a significant portion of the collection. These include Frederick Jackson Turner (30 letters), Merle Curti (25 letters), Archer B. Hulbert (13 letters), Ida M. Tarbell (40 letters), Albert Beveridge (24 letters), Worthington C. Ford (37 letters), Clarence Garrett Vannest (66 letters), Louis C. Warren (11 letters), Jesse W. Weik (10 letters), and Carl Sandburg (7 letters).
The majority of the collection consists of Iglehart’s correspondence with members of the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society and the Indiana Historical Society. There are 29 letters from John W. Oliver, director of the Indiana Historical Commission; 266 letters from Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann of Rockport, Indiana; and 179 letters from Mrs. Duff Johnson of Mount Vernon, Indiana.
There are 25 letterbooks, dating from 1853 to 1892, of the Iglehart law firm in Evansville, Indiana. John E. Iglehart joined the law firm of his father, prominent lawyer Judge Asa Iglehart, immediately after graduation in 1866.
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Correspondence of Joseph H. Iglehart (John E. Iglehart’s son) relating to the donation of the letters, written by Frederick Jackson Turner to John E. Iglehart, to the Huntington Library, 1953 |
Box 1, Folder 1 |
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William E. Barton correspondence, May 1922–April 1930 |
Box 1, Folder 2 |
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William E. Barton correspondence, May 1930–July 1931 |
Box 1, Folder 3 |
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Ray Stannard Baker correspondence, July 1931–July 1933 |
Box 1, Folder 4 |
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Albert J. Beveridge correspondence, December 1922–February 1925 |
Box 1, Folder 5 |
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Albert J. Beveridge correspondence, June 1927–June 1931 |
Box 1, Folder 6 |
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Solon J. Buck correspondence January–April 1933 Merle Curti correspondence January 1921–August 1932 |
Box 1, Folder 7 |
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Max Farrand correspondence April 1932–July 1933; William E. Dodd correspondence May 1926–May 1933; Dr. Guy Emerson correspondence December 1930–April 1932 |
Box 1, Folder 8 |
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Dr. Worthington C. Ford correspondence, 1927 |
Box 1, Folder 9 |
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Dr. Logan Esarey correspondence, November 1927–December 1928 |
Box 1 Folder 10 |
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Dr. Logan Esarey correspondence, November 1927–December 1928 |
Box 1, Folder 11 |
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Archer B. Hulbert correspondence, October 1929–June 1931 |
Box 1, Folder 12 |
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Archer B. Hulbert correspondence, November 1932–March 1933. Two printed bibliographies of Hulbert’s writings. |
Box 1, Folder 13 |
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George P. Hambrecht correspondence, 1917–1929 |
Box 1, Folder 14 |
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Worthington C. Ford correspondence, October 1927–February 1928 |
Box 1, Folder 15 |
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Worthington C. Ford correspondence, March–November 1928 |
Box 1, Folder 16 |
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Henry Hazlitt correspondence, December 1926 –September 1932 |
Box 2, Folder 1 |
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Dr. Homer C. Hockett correspondence, January 1929–April 1932 |
Box 2, Folder 2 |
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William O. Lynch correspondence, February 1929–April 1930 |
Box 2, Folder 3 |
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Dr. G. Edward Murr correspondence, January 1921–November 1925 |
Box 2, Folder 4 |
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Frederick L. Paxson correspondence, May 1926–April 1933 |
Box 2, Folder 5 |
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M. M. Quaife correspondence, November 1922–February 1929 |
Box 2, Folder 6 |
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Carol Sandburg articles and correspondence, April 1926–October 1928 |
Box 2, Folder 7 |
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Louis A. Warren correspondence, April 1925–April 1931 |
Box 2, Folder 8 |
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Ida M. Tarbell correspondence, November 1922– May 1926 |
Box 2, Folder 9 |
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Ida M. Tarbell correspondence, November 1926–July 1928 |
Box 2, Folder 10 |
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Ida M. Tarbell correspondence, April 1929–April 1931 |
Box 2, Folder 11 |
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Clarence G. Vannest correspondence, 1925–1931 |
Box 2, Folder 12 |
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Frederick Jackson Turner correspondence, 1921–May 1927 |
Box 2, Folder 13 |
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Frederick Jackson Turner correspondence, January 1928–July 1932 |
Box 2, Folder 14 |
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Thomas de la Hunt correspondence, February 1920–December 1930 |
Box 2, Folder 15 |
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James A. Woodburn correspondence, December 1918–February 1929 |
Box 2, Folder 16 |
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“A Defence of the Mother, Conversion and Creed” by James Martin |
Box 2, Folder 17 |
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Jesse W. Weik correspondence, October–December 1925 |
Box 2, Folder 18 |
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William Barker correspondence, January 1925–July 1930 |
Box 3, Folder 1 |
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William Barker correspondence, August 1930–March 1933 |
Box 3, Folder 2 |
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Dr. Christopher B. Coleman correspondence, January 1930–August 1931 |
Box 3, Folder 3 |
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Dr. Christopher B. Coleman correspondence, October 1931–December 1932 |
Box 3, Folder 4 |
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Dr. Christopher B. Coleman correspondence, January–October 1933 |
Box 3, Folder 5 |
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Dr. Christopher B. Coleman correspondence, October 1924–August 1925 |
Box 3, Folder 6 |
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Dr. Christopher B. Coleman correspondence, September 1925–February 1926 |
Box 3, Folder 7 |
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Dr. Christopher B. Coleman correspondence, March 1926–October 1927 |
Box 3, Folder 8 |
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Dr. Christopher B. Coleman correspondence, November 1927–December 1929 |
Box 3, Folder 9 |
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Dr. Christopher B. Coleman correspondence, January–December 1929 |
Box 3 Folder 10 |
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Indiana History Bulletin, February 1925; Indiana History Bulletin, November 1924; A Chapter in the Early History of Journalism in Indiana by William S. Garber, July 1922 |
Box 3, Folder 11 |
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William Fortune correspondence, November 1924–November 1927 |
Box 3, Folder 12 |
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William Fortune correspondence, January 1928–June 1933 |
Box 3, Folder 13 |
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Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann correspondence, March 1921–December 1927 |
Box 3, Folder 14 |
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Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann correspondence, January–December 1928 |
Box 3, Folder 15 |
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Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann correspondence, January–December 1929 |
Box 4, Folder 1 |
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Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann clippings |
Box 4, Folder 2 |
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Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann correspondence, January–December 1930 |
Box 4, Folder 3 |
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Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann correspondence, January 1931–16 June 1932 |
Box 4, Folder 4 |
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Mrs. Bess V. Ehrmann correspondence, 18 June 1932–February 1937 |
Box 4, Folder 5 |
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Lucius C. Embree correspondence, December–June 1917 |
Box 4, Folder 6 |
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Mrs. Susan Garvin correspondence, May 1920–July 1922 |
Box 4, Folder 7 |
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Mrs. Phoebe Hamlin correspondence, January 1918–December 1924 |
Box 4, Folder 8 |
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George F. Honig correspondence, 1927 |
Box 4, Folder 9 |
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Will Hays correspondence, May 1924–September 1931 |
Box 4, Folder 10 |
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Mrs. Duff Johnson correspondence, January 1929–14 November 1930 |
Box 4, Folder 11 |
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Mrs. Duff Johnson correspondence, November 1930–May 1933 |
Box 4, Folder 12 |
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Mrs. Duff Johnson correspondence, June 1933–undated |
Box 4, Folder 13 |
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Charles W. Moores correspondence, January 1915–December 1929 |
Box 5, Folder 1 |
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Mrs. Anna C. O’Flynn correspondence, 1926 |
Box 5, Folder 2 |
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Mrs. Anna C. O’Flynn, undated correspondence and lectures |
Box 5, Folder 3 |
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Mrs. Eldora M. Raleigh correspondence, February 1921–March 1928; brief biographies of James McCulla, William Graham and Family, George Brackenridge; testimony of Eldora M. Raleigh regarding Abraham Lincoln |
Box 5, Folder 4 |
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Mrs. Eldora M. Raleigh obituaries, Eldora M. Raleigh Memorial speech, May 1930 |
Box 5, Folder 5 |
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Mrs. Duff Johnson correspondence, January 1921–May 1923, typed manuscript of Sketches of the Lives of Three Civil War Generals for Posey County: William Harrow, Alvin P. Hovey, and Thomas G. Pitcher, June 1923 |
Box 5, Folder 6 |
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Mrs. Duff Johnson correspondence, June 1923–February 1926 |
Box 5, Folder 7 |
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Mrs. Duff Johnson correspondence, June 1926–November 1927 |
Box 5, Folder 8 |
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Mrs. Duff Johnson correspondence, December 1927–April 1928 |
Box 5, Folder 9 |
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Mrs. Duff Johnson correspondence, May–November 1928 |
Box 5, Folder 10 |
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Dr. John W. Oliver correspondence, July 1921–January 1930 |
Box 5, Folder 11 |
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Dr. John W. Oliver correspondence, March 1931–January 1933 |
Box 5, Folder 12 |
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Kate M. Rabb correspondence, March 1926–January 1929 |
Box 5, Folder 13 |
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George R. Wilson correspondence, January 1921–February 1926 |
Box 5, Folder 14 |
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George R. Wilson correspondence, January 1927–January 1928 |
Box 5, Folder 15 |
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George R. Wilson correspondence, April 1928–January 1929 |
Box 5, Folder 16 |
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George R. Wilson correspondence, March 1929–May [1932?] |
Box 5, Folder 17 |
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Thomas J. Wilson correspondence, February 1928–December 1929 |
Box 5, Folder 18 |
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Robert A. Woods correspondence, May 1929–April 1931 |
Box 5, Folder 19 |
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Robert A. Woods correspondence, May–June 1931 |
Box 5, Folder 20 |
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Robert A. Woods correspondence, July 1931–September 1932 |
Box 6, Folder 1 |
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Robert A. Woods correspondence, October 1932–May 1933 |
Box 6, Folder 2 |
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Minutes of Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, June 1923–February 1928 |
Box 6, Folder 3 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, July 1871–December 1917 |
Box 6, Folder 4 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, January 1918–November 1920 |
Box 6, Folder 5 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, February 1921–December 1925 |
Box 6, Folder6 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, January 1926–June 1927 |
Box 7, Folder 1 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, July 1927–November 1928 |
Box 7, Folder 2 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, February–October 1929 |
Box 7, Folder 3 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, December 1929–March 1931 |
Box 7, Folder 4 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, not dated |
Box 7, Folder 5 |
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Speeches and dictation, February 1901–September 1928 |
Box 6, Folder 7 |
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Speeches and dictation, October 1928–January 1931 |
Box 6, Folder 8 |
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Speeches and dictation, February–October 1931, undated |
Box 6, Folder 9 |
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List of prominent persons in Indiana when Lincoln was a boy, undated; List of Prominent Residents of Harrison County, Indiana Prior to its Admission as a State, 1916; List of Prominent Southern Indianans, undated |
Box 6, Folder 10 |
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Speeches and dictation, January–December 1930 |
Box 6, Folder 11 |
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Speeches and dictation, January–March 1933 |
Box 7, Folder 7 |
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Speeches and dictation, April 1933 |
Box 7, Folder 8 |
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Speeches and dictation, May 1933 |
Box 7, Folder 9 |
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Speeches and dictation, February–May 1932 |
Box 7, Folder 10 |
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Speeches and dictation, June–September 1932 |
Box 7, Folder 11 |
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Speeches and dictation, October 1932–May 1933 |
Box 7, Folder 12 |
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Speeches and dictation, June 1933 |
Box 7, Folder 13 |
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Correspondence, September 1912–April 1917 |
Box 7, Folder 14 |
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Memos, undated; Minutes, undated; Souvenir Program, 14–24 October 1919 |
Box 7, Folder 15 |
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Correspondence, March 1927–September 1927 |
Box 7, Folder 16 |
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Correspondence, October 1927–March 1930 |
Box 7, Folder 17 |
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Correspondence, February 1932–June 1932 |
Box 7, Folder 18 |
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Manuscripts, papers, and copies of addresses given concerning Lincoln in Indiana, 1924–1926 |
Box 8, Folder 1 |
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Lincoln Lore (The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company) #252–339 |
Box 8, Folder 2 |
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Lincoln Lore (The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company) #340–387 |
Box 8, Folder 3 |
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Lincoln Lore (The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company) #388–468 |
Box 8, Folder 4 |
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Lincoln Lore (The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company) #469–516 |
Box 8, Folder 5 |
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Lincoln Lore (The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company) #517–619 |
Box 8, Folder 6 |
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The Lincoln Kinsmen (Lincolniana Publishers) #1, 4, 9, 12, 18, and 20. Charles Roll. One Hundred and Fifty Years of American Development. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, undated. Pamphlet of Lincoln Memorials. No publication information given |
Box 8, Folder 7 |
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Depositions from those who knew Lincoln or his family in Indiana, 1915: Louella Ashley, L.B. Barker, James Blackford, Francis M. Carlisle, Isaac G. Cissna, Jacob Clark, Mary E. Floyd, Allen Gentry, Robert Gentry, Elizabeth A. Goad, Sarah Gray, Bartley Inco, Captain William Jones, Jacob Oskins, James W. Phillips, George W. Roberts, James Stephens, W.E. Williams |
Box 8, Folder 8 |
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Speeches and dictation on the death of John W. Graham; sermon by John W. Jackson, 1855 |
Box 8, Folder 9 |
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William Faux text, 6 February 1928 |
Box 8, Folder 10 |
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History of Evansville, miscellaneous Evansville history papers |
Box 8, Folder 11 |
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Letterbook, 25 May 1853–12 August 1854 |
BV 3471 |
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Letterbook, 4 February 1854–15 June 1858 |
BV 3472 |
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Letterbook, 18 December 1855–4 January 1858 |
BV 3473 |
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Letterbook, 15 August 1854–15 December 1855 |
BV 3474 |
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Letterbook, 4 January 1858–1 August 1859 |
BV 3475 |
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Letterbook, 1 July 1858–22 March 1860 |
BV 3476 |
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Letterbook, 1 August 1859–6 May 1861 |
BV 3477 |
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Letterbook, 11 May 1861–8 April 1862 |
BV 3478 |
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Letterbook, 10 April 1862–10 June 1863 |
BV 3479 |
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Letterbook, 9 May 1863–13 December 1864 |
BV 3480 |
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Letterbook, 13 December 1864–10 April 1866 |
BV 3481 |
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Letterbook, 5 January 1867–2 April 1868 |
BV 3482 |
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Letterbook, 13 April–30 December 1868 |
BV 3483 |
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Letterbook, 26 August 1869–26 March 1870 |
BV 3484 |
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Letterbook, 7 January–20 October 1871 |
BV 3485 |
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Letterbook, 20 December 1872–14 January 1874 |
BV 3486 |
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Letterbook, 20 July 1875–24 February 1876 |
BV 3487 |
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Letterbook, 24 February 1876–9 May 1877 |
BV 3488 |
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Letterbook, 10 May–10 December 1877 |
BV 3489 |
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Letterbook, 20 February 1880–4 April 1881 |
BV 3490 |
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Letterbook, 13 March 1884–6 January 1885 |
BV 3491 |
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Letterbook, 27 November 1886–16 May 1887 |
BV 3492 |
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Letterbook, 8 November 1889–24 July 1890 |
BV 3493 |
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Letterbook, 26 July 1890–4 January 1891 |
BV 3494 |
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Letterbook, 4 June–15 December 1892 |
BV 3495 |
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Microfilm of collection. Note: The filming dates from when the collection was originally processed, and the order of the contents does not match exactly the current order. |
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