Lindsay-Wakefield family additional papers, 1909-1995.

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Lindsay-Wakefield family additional papers, 1909-1995.

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Abstract

Family papers of the American poet, Vachel Lindsay.

Extent

3 boxes (1 linear ft.).

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eng,

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Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6383172

Houghton Library

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Kerr, Chester

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Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

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R.R. Bowker company

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Publisher, New York. From the description of Evening mail book reviews : notebooks, 1869, 1871-1874. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58660269 ...

Springfield High School

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Vachel Lindsay

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Wilcox, Susan

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Ward, Catharine Wakefield.

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Springfield English Club.

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Illinois Wesleyan Junior College of Music

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Richard Graebel and Co.

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Lucy Robinson

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Fogarty, Priscilla.

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Paul Wakefield

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Springfield Art Association

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Organized in 1909 as the Amateur Art Study Club for the purpose of art study and with Georgia Watson Miner as the first club president. In 1913 Alice Edwards Ferguson, the granddaughter of Illinois' fourth governor, Ninian Edwards, donated her house to the association as a place for art classes, art exhibits and social gatherings. Edwards Place remains the home of the Springfield Art Association, which it became in 1921. From the description of Records, 1909-1963. (Abraham Lincoln Pr...

Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...

Wakefield, Olive Lindsay.

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Catharine Wakefield Ward

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Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

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Welch, Louise

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Kenyon, Myra.

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Vachel Lindsay Association

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Founded in 1946 in Springfield, Illinois to perpetuate interest in Lindsay's poetry and ideals. Elizabeth Graham was a founding member and curator of the Lindsay Home from 1958-1978. Although the home was transferred to the state of Illinois as a historic site in 1990, the Vachel Lindsay Association continues to promote his poetry and ideals through public programming and publications. From the description of Records, 1881-1994. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record...

Cox, Richard G.

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Elizabeth Graham

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Mary Jane Oglesby

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas C. (Nicholas Cave) Lindsay

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Hotel Kinckerbocker, New York City.

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Harrison C. Blankmeyer

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Eudora South

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Joy Lindsay Blair

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Falcone, Martha Wakefield.

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Ephraim Samuel Frazee

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Bro, Margueritte Harmon, 1894-

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Vachel Wakefield

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Allen, Hannah

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Elizabeth Conner.

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Elizabeth Mann Wills

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Lindsay, Elizabeth Conner, 1901-1954

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Bonaro W. (Bonaro Wilkinson) Overstreet

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Wills, Elizabeth Mann.

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Susan Wilcox

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Ruggles, Eleanor, 1916-....

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Souther, Latham

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Guthrie Janssen

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

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Organized 1904, incorporated 1914; New York, N.Y. The American Academy of Arts and Letters was established "to afford recognition to distinguished achievement in literature and the fine arts ..." [The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters merged on Dec. 30, 1976]. From the description of American Academy of Arts and Letters records, 1864-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565401 The National Institute of Arts and Letters was...

Wakefield, Paul.

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Cadbury, Paul S. (Paul Strangman)

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Conner, Claribel Sims.

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Zimbler Sinfonietta

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Vachel Lindsay Memorial Bridge.

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Lindsay, Elizabeth Conner, 1901-1954

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Cantrall, Hattie.

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Peters Gate Press

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Jones, Jennie

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Reynal & Hitchcock (Firm)

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Oliver Lindsay Wakefield

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Kay Wakefield

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Frederick G. Melcher

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Frances Frazee Hamilton

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Janel Lundgren

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Ed. C. Saner Co.

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Lindsay family.

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Lindsay was an American poet. From the guide to the Lindsay-Wakefield family additional papers, 1909-1995., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Mills College

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Bennett, Isadora

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Isadora Bennett (1900-1980) was a publicist specializing in the performing arts. Beginning with her work for Martha Graham in the late 1930s, Bennett became associated with modern American dance companies, and the association would last for the rest of her life. She expanded her clientele to encompass other types of artists after entering a partnership with Richard Pleasant in 1948. After his death in 1961, Bennett continued working as a publicist until 1972, when she retired. She received numer...

Eleanor Ruggles

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Blair, Joy Lindsay.

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Williams, George Walton, 1922-....

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George Walton Williams was born in 1922 in Charleston, SC. He fought in France and Germany during World War II. He received his A.B. from Yale in 1947 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1949 and 1957, respectively. In the meantime, he also studied the history of his parish church and published a volume on the subject in 1951, entitled St. Michael's, Charleston, 1751-1951 . Williams began teaching in the English Department at Duke in 1957, with specialties in Shakespeare an...

Lindsay-Wakefield family additional papers, 1909-1995.

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