Papers, 1855-1993 (inclusive), 1855-1941 (bulk).

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Papers, 1855-1993 (inclusive), 1855-1941 (bulk).

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Collection centers around Catharine (Frazee) Lindsay, and includes family photographs; school essays and speeches; programs, catalogs, and grades; diaries; notebooks from her travels, including trips to the Chicago World's Fair (1893) and the World Missionary Conference in Scotland (1910); her letters to her husband and daughter Olive, most of the latter written while Olive and family were living in China; and speeches, essays, and debates, many written for or delivered to organizations in which Lindsay was active. Thomas Vachel Lindsay is represented by a diary, notebooks, etc., and accounts of his life and his father's life; also included are letters from Joy (Lindsay) Blair to her mother and others.

3.25 linear ft.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Lindsay, Vachel Thomas.

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First Christian Church (Springfield, Ill.)

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Wakefield, Olive Lindsay,

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World Missionary Conference 1910 Edinburgh, Scotland

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Hocker Female College (Lexington, Ky.)

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Woman's Missionary Social Union (Springfield, Ill.)

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Wakefield family.

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Lindsay family.

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Catharine (Frazee) Lindsay (1848-1922) was the wife of Dr. Vachel Thomas Lindsay and the mother of Olive Catharine (Lindsay) Wakefield, a missionary in China; poet Vachel Lindsay; Joy (Lindsay) Blair; and three daughters who died in childhood. A graduate of Glendale Female College in Glendale, Ohio, she taught there and at Hocker Female College in Lexington, Ky., before marrying in 1876 and moving to Springfield, Ill. A leading figure in the religious, literary, and intellectual life of Springfi...

Lindsay, Catharine Frazee, 1848-1922,

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Blair, Joy Lindsay.

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Glendale Female College (Glendale, Ohio)

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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...

Christian Woman's Board of Missions

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