Edwin Erle Sparks papers, 1870-1925.

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Edwin Erle Sparks papers, 1870-1925.

The collection contains personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of Dr. Sparks' writings including a 196-page boyhood reminiscence and a draft of his Ph. D. dissertation, "The Cumberland National Road." Also, includes published articles, reviews, articles about Sparks, scrapbooks, speeches, and research and lecture notes. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, Fred Lewis Pattee, and George Washington Carver.

5 cubic feet.

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943

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Agricultural scientist, teacher, humanitarian, artist, and Iowa State alumnus (1894, 1896). George Washington Carver was born ca. 1864, the son of slaves on the Moses Carver plantation near Diamond Grove, Missouri. He lost his father in infancy, and at the age of 6 months was stolen along with his mother by raiders, but was later found and traded back to his owner for a $300 race horse. He enrolled in Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa in 1890 studying music and art. Etta Budd, his art instructor ...

Pattee, Fred Lewis, 1863-1950

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Fred Lewis Pattee was an American author, poet, teacher, scholar, and a leading authority on American literature. He was Professor of English and Rhetoric at Pennsylvania State College, and later became Professor of American Literature. In 1891 Pattee published his first book, LITERATURE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and his first published verse collection was THE WINE OF MAY (1893). Pattee's most important critical work was the first volume of HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1870 (1915), which w...

Pennsylvania State College

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Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944

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Ida M. Tarbell was an investigative journalist best known from her The History of the Standard Oil Company published in 1904. She wrote for American Magazine, which she also co-owned and co-edited, from 1906 to 1915. From the guide to the Ida M. Tarbell papers, 1916-1930, (Ohio University) Historian, journalist, lecturer, and muckraker, (Allegheny College, A.B., 1880). For further information, see Notable American Women (1971). From the description of The nationa...

Sparks, Edwin Erle, 1860-1924

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Sparks was an historian, and president of Pennsylvania State College for twelve years. From the description of Edwin Erle Sparks papers, 1870-1925. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31020128 ...