Collection, ca. 1850-1979.

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Collection, ca. 1850-1979.

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Family and general correspondence from Indianapolis and Kennebunkport, clippings, programs, autobiographical writings, a cartoon of Tarkington, and other miscellaneous materials. Correspondence topics include family business, literary matters, art collecting, the Dramatic Club, the New Deal, Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign of 1940, and World War II. Correspondents include family members Margaret Booth Jameson, Susanah Tarkington, and Donald Jameson; family retainer Stanley Thirkell; Carlton B. McCulloch; conductor Fabien Sevitzky; art dealer Abris Silberman; Earle J. Bernheimer; and Edward William Bok. Visual materials consist of photographs and prints of Tarkington in Indianapolis and Maine. There are individual portraits of him as well as many with family and friends, his homes, and pets.

Manuscript Materials: 2 boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 reels of microfilm.Visual Materials: 1 box of photographs, 1 box of OVA size photographs, 1 box of OVA size graphics, 2 OVB size photographs, 2 OVC graphics, 1 cased image, 4 albums, 1 negative, 203 slides.

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930

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Born in the Netherlands, Edward Bok came to the United States with his family at the age of six. He worked in publishing from the age of thirteen. He founded the Brooklyn magazine and 1886 he established the Bok Syndicate Press. Bok became editor of Ladies' home journal in 1889. In 1896 Bok married Mary Louise Curtis (1876-1970), the daughter of Ladies' home journal publisher, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850-1933). He worked as an editor at Curtis publishing for thirty years retiring at th...

Bernheimer, Earle J.

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Jameson family

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Dramatic Club (Indianapolis, Ind.)

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John Herron Art Institute

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The John Herron Art Institute became the Indianapolis Museum of Art ca. 1969-1970. Peat was director 1929-1965. From the description of Wilbur D. Peat correspondence, 1929-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502723 From the description of Wilbur D. Peat correspondence, 1929-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779476906 ...

Tarkington family.

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Jameson, Margaret Booth, 1894-1982.

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Margaret Booth Jameson was the niece of Hoosier author Booth Tarkington. From the description of Papers, n.d. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 21126188 ...

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...

Booth family.

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Jameson, Donald A.

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Thirkell, Stanley, 1918-1942.

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McCulloch, Carlton Buel, 1871-1949.

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Sevitzky, Fabien, 1891-1967

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Silberman, Abris.

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Booth, Beebe, approximately 1793-1888

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Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911

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American journalist and novelist. From the description of David Graham Phillips letters, circa 1911. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122515089 ...

Tarkington, Susanah, 1870-1966

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Susanah Kiefer was a native of Dayton, Ohio. In 1912, she married Indianapolis author Booth Tarkington. She managed the Tarkington households in Indianapolis, Ind. and Kennebunkport, Me. From the description of Papers, 1898-1932. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 35553069 ...