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A Guide to her Papers at the Indiana University Archives

Finding aid prepared by DML, Tarez Samra Graban, Amanda N. Hudson, Kasy Lloyd, Heather J. Stone, and Anna Rimel.

Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel, 1883-1969.

Collection No.
C413

Extent
16.6 cubic feet (20 boxes)

Language
Materials are in English and German

Abstract
This collection consists of the family papers of Indiana University professor Cecilia Hennel Hendricks spanning the period from 1839 through 1970. Included are papers relating to the academic careers of Cecilia, Associate Professor of English, and her sister Cora, Professor of Mathematics at Indiana University, as well as manuscripts and writings by both women. Also found in the collection are papers and correspondence of family members: father Joseph B. Hennel, mother Anna M. Thuman Hennel, Cecilia's husband John Hendricks, and sister Edith Hennel Ellis.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.

Biographical Note

Cecilia Hennel was born in Evansville, Indiana on March 2, 1883 to Joseph H. and Anna Marie Thuman Hennel. The Hennels moved from Evansville to Bloomington in 1905 so that their daughters - Cora, Cecilia, and Edith - could attend Indiana University. Cora was the first person to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics at IU. Cora would remain at IU teaching Mathematics at IU for the next 40 years and co-authored a math textbook. Cecilia obtained her A.B. in 1907 and her A.M. in 1908, both in English, from IU. While a student at IU, Cecilia edited The Arbutus and contributed articles to numerous professional journals. Cecilia taught the first correspondence course at IU and taught in the English Department at IU for over 25 years, from 1907-1913, and from 1931-1953, when she retired. Edith received both the A.B. and the A.M. in Botany, and taught botany at IU for two years before she left in 1914 to become a probation officer in Gary, Indiana for the Lake County Juvenile Court. She married Edward Ellis in Chicago in 1917.

Hennel joined the faculty as an Instructor of English from 1908-1913, and served as Dean of Women at IU during the summers of 1912-1913. In 1913, she moved to Powell, Wyoming to marry John Hendricks who was a member of the Shoshone Federal Irrigation Project team assigned to cultivate a bee farm. While in Wyoming, Cecilia and John had three children - Cecilia Barbara (Mrs. Henry Ethan Wahl), Jules Ord, and Anne Carolyn (Mrs. John DeCamp). At President Bryan's invitation, Hendricks returned to the IU English faculty, where she remained from 1930-1953. In 1940, she founded the Indiana University Writers' Conference as a way of fostering the study of creative literary traditions in the Midwest.

As a research subject, Cecilia Hennel Hendricks represents several areas of interest, including writing instruction, reform in general public education, American higher education at the turn of the Twentieth Century, and homesteading. As a Wyoming homesteader, Hendricks served informally and formally the interests of public education, was nominated Wyoming's democratic candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction for the first time in 1922, and campaigned for governor Nellie Tayloe Ross in 1924. She wrote for several regional news publications, and made a preliminary study of a plan to develop a farmer's mutual fire insurance company.

While on the faculty at IU, Cecilia Hendricks was an advisor to the Mortar Board Society, and she helped organize and was the first secretary of the Hoosier Folklore Society. She was secretary and then president of the Phi Beta Kappa academic society for 17 years. She also designed and taught the first English composition class for foreign students. In 1950, she took a sabbatical leave and was an educational advisor in teaching English to schoolteachers at Koror, in the Palau Islands in the Pacific. At that time, she edited a 60-page dictionary of the Palau language, made tape recordings of island music, and transcribed folk tales. After her retirement in 1953, Hendricks served as the John Hay Whitney Professor at Coe College. She remained active in various IU organizations and on special writing projects such as "The Review," IU's alumni magazine. As a writer, Hendricks participated in the Cosmopolitan Club, served as the Editor of the University Publications in 1913, gave frequent lectures for campus clubs, worked as a news and magazine correspondent, published poems and plays in well-read periodicals, and volunteered in her retirement as a writing instructor for The Hospital Veteran Writing Project. In 1961, she received the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award, and in 1963, Theta Sigma Phi awarded her a medallion for more than 50 years' of service to journalism. Hendricks died on July 15, 1969 at the age of 87.

The Biographical Note and other detailed folder level descriptions were written by Written by Professor Tarez Samra Graban, Amanda Hudson, and Kasey Lloyd in 2010 in conjunction with a class project.

Arrangement

Collection is organized into seven series: Correspondence, Cecilia Hennel Hendricks papers, Cora Hennel papers, John Hendricks papers, Joseph Hennel papers, Hennel family papers, and Funeral and estate matters.

Scope and Content Note

The Cecilia Hennel Hendricks family papers collection is organized into seven series: Correspondence, Cecilia Hennel Hendricks papers, Cora Hennel papers, John Hendricks papers, Joseph Hennel papers, Hennel family papers, and Funeral and estate matters. The collection contains papers and other materials created or collected by Cecilia Hennel Hendricks, Cora B. Hennel, John Hendricks, and Joseph Hennel. Included are family papers, correspondence, and memorabilia.

When the collection arrived at the Archives, much of the collection had already been arranged by Cecilia's daughter. While her scheme was useful in guiding the arrangement of the collection, further refinement and arrangement was necessary, as the entire collection was organized strictly chronologically.

The first series, Correspondence, 1855-1969, is further organized into the various Hendricks family individuals: Anne Hendricks DeCamp, Cecilia Hennel Hendricks, Cecilia Hendricks Wahl, John Hendricks, Jules Ord Hendricks; and the Hennel family: Anna Thuman Hennel, Cora Hennel, Edith Hendricks Ellis, and Joseph Hennel. The subseries are all arranged chronologically within family and family member divisions. It contains handwritten and typed letters from Cecilia, Cora, Edith and the family. The bulk of the correspondence is between the three sisters - Cecilia, Cora, Edith - as well as over a decade of correspondence between Cecilia and John after she had returned to Bloomington and he remained in Powell, Wyoming. The correspondence and the diaries (of both Cecilia and Cora) together provide a robust description of the life of academic women in Bloomington, Indiana and the life of homesteading in Powell, Wyoming from 1908 to 1959.

The Cecilia Hennel Hendricks series spans 1879-1969 and consists of seven subseries: Diaries & date books, 1896-1968; Finances, 1897-1969; Indiana University Bloomington, 1907-1969; Miscellaneous ephemera, 1890-1968; Service & volunteer work, 1922-1967; Writing & publications, 1898-1963; Pamphlets & newspaper clippings, 1879-1965. The papers document all of Cecilia's work in public education in Wyoming, her work for the Nellie Tayloe Ross campaign (first woman governor in the United States), her significant administrative work for the English department, her founding of and participation in the IU Writers' Conference, her sabbatical work in Palau Islands, and her extra-curricular and post-retirement lecture activity. Also included are her faculty vitae and a list of her plays and published works. Of special note is the full manuscript of the "History of Indiana University," completed by Cecilia in 1963 at the request of Herman B Wells. Note that while there is a folder of Cecilia and Cora's rejection slips, some publication rejection and acceptance slips can also be found with the manuscripts themselves in other folders.

The next series, Cora Hennel, 1873-1968, is arranged alphabetically. Cora's diaries and date books provide a glimpse into the life of a single female in academia and of the first female recipient of a PhD in Mathematics at IU. Her interactions with her students are frequently documented in her diaries and correspondence. Included in this series is the completed textbook she co-authored, A Course in General Mathematics, as well as her PhD dissertation and Master's thesis. Also in this series is a file on the Cora B. Hennel Scholarship at IU, which was created by Cecilia Hennel Hendricks in honor of her late sister.

The fourth series, John Hendricks, 1898-1936, consists largely of business and personal financial matters and correspondence, which is arranged alphabetically and then chronologically, as well as other papers and materials related to John's service in the Spanish-American War. This series also contains nearly a lifetime of correspondence regarding his veteran's pension and disability from wounds received in battle in 1898. Note that there is one folder of legislative correspondence; however, correspondence of a similar nature is also found throughout the chronologically arranged business correspondence files.

The Joseph Hennel series, 1843-1912, consists of financial and business matters related to Joseph's time spent as a real estate agent and land surveyor, as well as a teacher. It also includes materials from the period he lived Evansville, Indiana during and after serving in the Civil War. These materials are largely arranged alphabetically by folder heading, and then chronologically when further delineation occurs. Of particular note are two files containing property abstracts for land in Evansville, Indiana and Vanderburgh County, which date the land's ownership as far back as possible, often to land grants given by the United States, and includes property sketches and longitude/latitude boundaries. In addition, this series includes a land grant certificate on vellum from 1839 to John Edgar, namesake of Edgar County, Illinois. Note that some items in this series were retained due to Joseph Hennel's interest in acquiring teaching materials, including three volumes of "The Elocutionist's Journal" from the late 1870s.

The Hennel family series spans the period from 1869-1971 and is further organized into two subseries: General family files, 1869-1955, chronologically arranged and largely related to the family's life in Evansville, Indiana; and the “Ellis Annuals,” 1943-1971, arranged chronologically, and consisting of yearly scrapbooks made by Edith Hennel Ellis depicting the goings on and lives of the family throughout the previous year via clipped magazine columns and newspaper cartoons.

The final series, Funeral and estate matters, 1925-1970, consists of files concerning the deaths of Anna Thuman Hennel in 1925, Joseph Hennel in 1934, John Hendricks in 1936, Cora Hennel in 1947, and Cecilia Hennel Hendricks in 1969, arranged chronologically. This series contains death certificates, funeral guest books, condolence cards and letters, and records on estate matters.

• Indexing Terms

• The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

• • Names
  • Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel, 1883-1969 --Archives.
  • Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel, 1883-1969 --Correspondence.
  • Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel, 1883-1969 --Diaries.
  • Hennel, Cora B. (Cora Barbara), 1886-1947 --Archives.
  • Hennel, Cora B. (Cora Barbara), 1886-1947 --Correspondence.
  • Hennel, Cora B. (Cora Barbara), 1886-1947 --Diaries.
  • Hendricks, John, 1875-1936 --Archives.
  • Hendricks, John, 1875-1936 --Correspondence.
  • Hennel, Joseph, 1842-1934 --Archives.
  • Indiana University. Department of English --Faculty --Archives.
  • Indiana University. Department of Mathematics --Faculty --Archives.
• • Topics
  • English literature --Study and teaching (Higher) --Indiana --Bloomington --History --Sources.
  • Mathematics --Study and teaching (Higher) --Indiana --Bloomington --History --Sources.

Separated Material

Indiana Club photographs and scrapbooks were processed into Collection C464, the Indiana Club records.

Related Material

The Archives also holds the papers of Cecilia Barbara Hendricks and her husband, Henry Wahl, Accession 99/038. Consult Archives staff for details.

Administrative Information

Container List

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Series: Correspondence, 1855-1969,  undated 

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Subseries: Hendricks family, 1898-1969,  undated 

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Miscellaneous correspondence,

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Box 1 1916-1919 

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1922 

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1927-1928 

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1930-1931 

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Hendricks DeCamp, Anne (and husband),

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1943-1951 

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1958-1962 

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1963-1968 

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Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel,

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Wedding,

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1913 

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1914 

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1914, 

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January-April 

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May-August 

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September-December 

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1915, 

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January-March 

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April-June 

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July-September 

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October-December 

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1916, 

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January-April 

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May-August 

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September-December 

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1917, 

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January-April 

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May-August 

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September-December 

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1918, 

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January-June  View item(s)

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July-December 

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1919 

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1920 

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1921 

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1922 

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1923 

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1924 

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1925 

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1926, 

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Box 2 January-June 

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July-December 

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1927 

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1928, 

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January-March 

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April-December 

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1929 

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1930, 

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January-September 

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October-December 

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1931, 

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January-July 

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Correspondence related to CHH's position at IU, July-August

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August-December 

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1932, 

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January-June 

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June-August 

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September-December 

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1933, 

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To John Hendricks,

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January-May 

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June-November 

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1934 

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1935 

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1936 

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1938 

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1939 

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1940-1960 (with Jesse Stuart) 

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1940 

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1941 

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1942 

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1943-1944 

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1945 

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1946 

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1947 

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1948 

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1950 

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1952-1959 

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1962-1963 

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1963 (80th Birthday)

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1964-1966 

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1967-1969 

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Undated 

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Hendricks Wahl, Cecilia (and husband, Henry Wahl),

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Box 3 1941 

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1942 

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1943 

(2 folders)

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1944 

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1945 

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1946 

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1947 

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1948 

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1949 

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1950 

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1951 

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1952 

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1953-1957 

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1967-1969 

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Hendricks, John,

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1898-1899, family correspondence during Spanish-American War and hospitalization from war wounds

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1901-1925 

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1915, To Cecilia Hennel Hendricks

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1921-1933 (with Senator John B. Kendrick)

Correspondence primarily focuses on agricultural policies and matters relating to the Hendricks's bee farm.

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1926-1933 (with "Comrades" of Spanish American War)

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1931 

(2 folders)

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1932 

(2 folders)

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1933 

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Box 4 1934 

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1935 

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1936 

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Hendricks, Jules (and wife, Lois Armstrong Hendricks),

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1933 & 1943 

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1944 

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1945

Consists primarily of correspondence from Jules, who was serving in Germany at the time. He details his daily routine, jobs, and places he visits.

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1945, A. D. Athanasopollos

Consists of correspondence from ADA of Greece regarding gratitude for a gifts from Jules and his family. Perhaps someone Jules met while serving overseas? ADA talks of the loss they suffered during the war.

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1946 

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1947 

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1954 

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Subseries: Hennel family, 1855-1968,  undated 

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Miscellaneous correspondence,

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Box 4 1898-1899 

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1904 (from Cecilia and Cora at IU)

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1905 

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1906-1910 

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1911-1913 

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1914-1919 

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1920 

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1923-1925 

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1933-1945 

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Hennel, Anna (Mamma),

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1914, 

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January-June 

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July-December 

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1915, 

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January-June 

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July-December 

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1916, 

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January-April 

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May-August 

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September-December 

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1917, 

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January-April 

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May-December 

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1918, Anna Hennel & Cora Hennel

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1920 

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Hennel, Cora,

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Box 5 1914, 

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January-February 

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March-April 

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May-December 

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1915 

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January-June 1916 

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July-December 1916 

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January-June 1917 

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July-December 1917 

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1919 

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1921 

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1923-1925 

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1926, 

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January-May 

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June-December 

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1927 

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1928 

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1929 

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1930 

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1931 

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1932 

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1933 

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1934 

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1935 

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1936 

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1937-1940 

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1942-1946 

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Undated, 

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Miscellaneous correspondence

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Box 5a Cora Hennel & Cecilia Hennel Hendricks

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Hennel Ellis, Edith,

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February-September 1914

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October-December 1914 

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1915

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Box 6 1916 

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1917 

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1917, June-December 

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1918 

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1919 

(2 folders)

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1920 

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1921 

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1922 

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1923 

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1924 

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1925 

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1926, 

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January-June 

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July-December 

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1927 

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1928 

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1929 

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1930 

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1931 

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1932 

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1933 

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1934 

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1935 

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1936 

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1937 

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1938 

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1939 

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1940 

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1941 

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1942 

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1943 

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Box 7 1944 

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Box 7a Ellis, Edward,

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1914

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1915

Clippings and correspondence re: the case of his father John R. Ellis, a pastor at Bloomington's First Presbyterian Church, charged with "irregular conduct."

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1916-1924

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Box 7 Ellis family,

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1945 

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1946 

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1954-1958 (Edith)

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1966-1968 

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Hennel, Joseph ("Pater"),

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Box 15 1855-1897 

(oversize)

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1869-1870 (with Thomas McEvoy)

McEvoy made arguments against woman taking up the profession of teaching on the grounds that they could not handle the profession the physical exertion required by the job. Letters were later transcribed by Cecilia H. Hendricks.

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Box 7 1921-1924 

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Series: Cecilia Hennel Hendricks, 1879-1969,  undated 

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Subseries: Diaries & date books, 1896-1968 

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Personal diaries,

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Box 7 1896-1901 

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1902-1904 

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1904-1905 

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1906-1907 

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1907-1909 

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1909-1912 

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Date books,

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1933-1934 

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1941-1942 

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1943-1945 

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1946-1948 

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1949-1951 

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1952-1954 

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1955-1957 

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1958-1959 

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Wall calendars, 1963-1968 

(Includes notes about daily activities)

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Subseries: Finances, 1897-1969 

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Business,

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Honeyhill Farms,

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Box 7 1937 

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1938 

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1939 

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1940 

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1941 

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1942 

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1943-1944 

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1951-1959 

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1960-1967  

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Personal,

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Account books/ledgers,

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1897-1898 

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1902-1921 (Cecilia, Cora, & Edith)

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1936-1943 

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1944-1955 

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Box 8 1944-1969 

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1956-1969 

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B.H.S. building stock, 1963 

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Intangibles tax stamps, 1948-1961 

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Life insurance, Social Security, donation receipts, 1950-1968 

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Properties,

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410 S. Park Room Rentals, 1953-1966 

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410 S. Park, undated 

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1505 East First, undated 

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812 S. Henderson, undated 

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Locust Hill Lots - Cemetery, undated 

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Evansville, 2nd Street, undated 

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World War II Ration books, 1941-1945 

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Subseries: Indiana University Bloomington, 1907-1969 

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Conventions & conferences,

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Box 8 Harvard Tercentenary (Cecilia & Cora), 1936 

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I.U. Writer's Conference & Foundation's Award, 1940-1969 

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Theta Sigma Phi, 1940-1941 

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Faculty/English department,

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AAUP Evaluation Committee on Methods of Teaching, 1942 

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Annual reports, 1941-1952 

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English department & IU correspondence, 1927-1952 

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IU correspondence,

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Herman B Wells, 1938-1963 

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1962-1967 

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Salary letters, 1937-1949 

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Organizations,

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Distinguished Alumni, 1961-1968 

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Emeritus Club, 1953-1961 

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Hoosier Folklore Society, 1939-1967 

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Indiana University Memorial Fund Drive, Wyoming, 1922-1927 

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IU Mortar Board, 1947 

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Phi Beta Kappa President's Address, 1953 

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Palau trip, 1950 

Includes correspondence, transcript of recordings, photos, trip itinerary, U.S. Navy I.D. card, card signifying "crossed the 180th meridian" by ship

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Retirement,

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1953-1962 

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Biographical material, 1953 

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Teaching,

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Correspondence course outlines, 1911-1913  View item(s)

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Exams,

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1908-1909  View item(s)

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1911-1913  View item(s)

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Lecture notes,

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1907-1913 

(Folder 1)

View item(s)

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1907-1913 

(Folder 2)

View item(s)

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1944-1953  View item(s)

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Subseries: Miscellaneous ephemera, 1890-1968,  undated 

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Box 8 Address book, undated 

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Cards & postcards,

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Miscellaneous valentines, postcards, and cards, 1890-1920 

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Children, miscellaneous report cards, grade school, 1933-1945 

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Miscellaneous cards, 1939-1953,  1967-1968 

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Christmas card lists & cards, 1965-1968 

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Various postcards, blank and used, undated 

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Membership to Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.), 1906-1942 

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Radio program "Information Please" award certificate from H. J. Heinz Company, for "stumping the experts," 1944 

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Travel notes & passport, 1935-1937,  1950 

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Subseries: Service & volunteer work, 1922-1967 

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Box 8 Coe College (John Hay Whitney Foundation), 1954 

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Hospital Veterans Writing Project, 1962-1967 

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Box 9 P.E.O., 1959-1965 

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Political campaigns,

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John Hendricks, State Representative from Park County, Wyoming, 1922 View item(s)

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Nellie Tayloe Ross, Governor, Wyoming, 1926 

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State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wyoming, 1926  View item(s)

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State Superintendent of Schools, Wyoming, 1922 View item(s)

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Price Control Board, Office of Price Administration, 1946 

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Veterans Administration, 1937-1957 

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Subseries: Writing & publications, 1898-1963,  undated 

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Box 9 Games & puzzles for publication, undated 

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Manuscripts & articles (including correspondence),

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1903-1948 

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IU Newsletters, 1926-1927 

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Casper Herald, 1927 

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"When a Woman Governor Campaigns" - Scribner's Magazine, 1928 

(2 folders)

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Children's stories, 1932,  1959-1960,  undated 

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Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, 1932-1936 

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IDS, 1935-1944 

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"News Correspondent" - The Matrix, 1939-1940 

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Manuscripts - Abe Martin, 1939-1941 

This is a study of fictitious character Abe Martin, created by Frank McKinley Hubbard. It acts primarily as a checklist of the Abe Martin books, but is enlarged to include a sketch of the life of Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard.

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"A Debt to Freshmen" - Journal of Higher Education, 1941 

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"Some Correlations of the Department of English of Purdue and Indiana Universities," 1942 

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"Salary Increases" - School & Society, 1943 

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"The Roman Hoosier" (Lillian Gay Berry), 1943-1944 

[3 photographs of Lillian Gay Berry transferred to IU Photo Archives]

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"The Battle of Waterloo," 1944 

Poetic lyrics put to a musical score by Robin Tamsons Smiddy. Poetic lyrics put to a musical score by Alec Hill. Information on the McCredie family of Scotland and Canada.

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"Thomas de Quincey, Symptomatologist" - PMLA, 1945 

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"The Anniversary" / "And Not to Yield," 1946 

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Indiana University student paper, The Independent, 1946 

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Palau-English Dictionary manuscript, 1950 

[legal file size]

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"Pictorial Folktales" - Hoosier Folklore, 1950 

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Palau Islands, 1950-1952 

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"History Has Repeated Itself," 1950-1963 

Newspaper clipping entitled "History has Repeated Itself," from the Sunday Indianapolis Star magazine, dated 9 December 1963. This describes a boiler explosion at the State fairgrounds in 1869 and draws parallels between that explosion and the Halloween explosion at the Coliseum in October 1963.

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"The Son Who Moved Away from His Parents - A Palau Folk Play" - Midwest Folklore, 1951 

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"Palau Folktales Are Important" - The Matrix, 1951 

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"The Function of a School: A Palau Concept" - School & Society, 1953 

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"New Opening for English Majors" - School & Society, 1953 

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"A Significant New Trend" - Journal of Higher Education, 1954 

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Book review: Central High Evansville Indiana, Its First Hundred Years by Henry A. Meyer - reviewed by Cecilia Hennel Hendricks - Indiana Magazine of History, 1954 

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"History of the Boulder County Bar Association," by Edward Ellis, given to Cecilia Hennel Hendricks, 1959 

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Manuscript of John Hendricks’ life, 1959 

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"University Weathers Civil War Crisis" -A & S The Review, 1960 

Recalls the 1860-1861 academic year when the university charged no tuition. Enrollment was fewer than 200 students and the university was at risk of closing. In 1861, Henry Hibben, professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and Belles Letters resigned his professorship to become a chaplain in the United States Army. This article also lists all the Indiana University students who served during the war.

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Indiana University History manuscript 1961-1963 

Manuscript sent to Dr. Herman B Wells on September 17, 1963 with the following letter: "It has been the hardest piece of writing I have ever tried to do, largely, I think because there is so much to say and hard to reject what seems of equal importance with what can be included."

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Box 9a "The Psychology of Personality by English Bagby and Personality by J. J. B. Morgan," undated 

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, undated 

(1 legal size folder; 1 regular folder)

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Miscellaneous plays, undated 

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Box 9b Miscellaneous writings, notes, correspondence, poetry, etc., 1924,  undated 

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Miscellaneous writing projects, 1925-1929 

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Poetry,

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Poetry & Sunday school notes, 1899 

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Poetry, 1900 

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Poetry, 1904,  1954,  undated 

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Rejection letters (Cecilia & Cora), 1904-1952,  undated 

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Schoolwork,

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Latin assignments, 1898-1899 

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National Press Association story-writing course, 1902 

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Class themes & notes, 1906,  1908,  1909,  undated 

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College themes, 1906 

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Story writing course, undated 

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Various English papers, undated 

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Speeches, 1924-1946,  1961 

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Subseries: Pamphlets & newspaper clippings, 1879-1965,  undated 

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Newspapers and clippings,

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General,

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Box 9 Farm & Home, July 15, 1907 

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Powell Tribune, 1920-1951 

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Redlander, July 6, 1945 

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Rocky Mountain News, 1922 

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Weekly Detroit Free Press, January, 25, 1879 

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Box 10 Wyoming politics - clippings and newspapers, 1926-1928 

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Personal,

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Cecilia Hennel Hendricks, 1929-1963 

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Children - Anne Hendricks DeCamp & Jules Hendricks, 1937-1960,  undated 

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Family, topics of interest, etc., 1914-1965 

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IU faculty clippings, 1922-1926 

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Magazine & newspaper clippings, crafts, drawings, etc., undated 

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Theta Sigma Phi clippings, 1936-1938,  1963 

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Pamphlets,

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Beekeeping, 1923-1932,  undated 

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Congressional Bills, 1927-1929 

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Government bulletins, 1916,  1921,  1923 

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Indiana University miscellaneous programs & pamphlets, 1922-1963 

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Powell, Wyoming, 1924,  undated 

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Wyoming - "Wyoming Extension Service," 1928-1931;  "State of Wyoming Historical Department Quarterly Bulletin," 1924-1925;  "Wyoming Agricultural Statistics," 1924-1925 

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Wyoming - various pamphlets, 1910-1925,  undated 

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Series: Cora Hennel, 1873-1968,  undated 

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Box 10 Autograph book, 1904 

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Cora B. Hennel Scholarship, 1958-1968 

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Diaries and date books,

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Personal diaries,

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1900-1901 

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1901 

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1902, 

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January-April 

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April-December 

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1903 

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1906 

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1908-1909 

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Box 16 1911-1914 

(oversize)

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Box 10 1929-1946 

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1934-1944 

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Date books,

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1925-1926 

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1927-1928 

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1929-1930 

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1932-1933 

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1934-1935 

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1936-1937 

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1938-1939 

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1940-1941 

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Box 11 1942-1943 

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1944-1945 

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1946-1947 

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Indiana University,

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Miscellaneous, 1873-1945 

Includes various handwritten notes; IU commencement & organization pamphlets; AAUW pamphlets; IU Faculty Women's Club pamphlet; Chapel Sermon by William Lowe Bryan; Mathematical Association pamphlets; retirement poem and skit for Lillian Gay Berry and others, etc.

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Notecards from speeches, undated 

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Phi Beta Kappa, 1915-1916,  1944,  undated 

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Manuscripts and writings,

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Poetry,

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1907-1935,  poetry and writings

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1932-1939,  poetry and manuscripts submitted for publication

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Undated 

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Thesis (for Master's degree), The Algebraic Equation: An Historical Discussion, & form letter of acceptance into the American Mathematical Association, 1908  & 1913 

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Dissertation (for PhD), Transformations and Invariants Connected with Linear Homogeneous Difference Equations and Other Functional Equations, 1912 

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Completed copy of A Course in General Mathematics by Harold Davis and Cora Hennel, 1925 

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"Summa Cum Laude" manuscript, undated  View item(s)

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Miscellaneous ephemera and notes,

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Various newspaper & magazine clippings, 1911-1943,  undated 

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Miscellaneous papers, notes, and cards, 1917  undated 

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Miscellaneous musings/notes re: life and teaching, undated 

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Personal finances - account books, WWII Ration book, 1912-1947 

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Scrapbooks, 1902-1907