Ludlow mss., 1898-1948
Summary Information
Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly
Creator
Ludlow, Louis, 1873-1950.
TitleLudlow mss., 1898-1948
Collection No.
LMC 1842
Extent
8355 items
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
Consists of the papers of Louis Leon
Ludlow, 1873-1950, journalist and congressman from Indiana.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
Louis Leon Ludlow, 1873-1950, was a journalist and congressman from Indiana.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II.
Printed; III. Scrapbooks; and, IV. Writings.
Scope and Content Note
In the collection are letters introducing Ludlow as Washington representative of the
Indianapolis Sentinel, 1901; letters
congratulating him on his transfer to Washington correspondent of the George F.
McCulloch's chain of papers, the
Indianapolis Star,
the
Muncie Star, and the
Terre
Haute Star
, 1903; a tribute to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, 1927;
letters and articles on Indian mounds in Indiana and Ohio, 1928; letters in the
1930's on Townsend's old age pension plan; letters and petitions on the Peace
Amendment which proposed to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide
for a referendum vote on war and to take the profit out of war, 1935-1940.
Presidents of universities and colleges, ministers, religious organizations,
railroad brotherhoods, other labor organizations, American Association of University
Women, the League of Women Voters, American War Mothers, National Grange, Women's
Christian Temperance Union, business and professional women's clubs, peace
organizations, prominent men and women in all professions, and the common people all
supported the amendment. In spite of numerous letters from congressmen and senators
to vote for the bill, it was defeated. Letters of regret from the rank and file
followed the announcement of the vote. Included are also letters congratulating
Ludlow on receiving an honorary LLD from Butler University in 1940; letters
regretting his decision not to stand for re-election to Congress in 1948; and copies
of two letters September 14 and November 10, 1839, from Charles Mayer, founder of
Charles Mayer & Co. of Indianapolis, to friends in Germany giving an account
of his voyage from Germany to Baltimore, his trip from Baltimore to Cincinnati, and
his first jobs in Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings of articles and speeches by Ludlow,
articles about him, and articles of interest to him; pictures; pamphlets; leaflets;
and press releases. They are in three series as follows: numbered scrapbooks, 31
volumes and two volumes of index, 1863-1948; scrapbooks of material relating to
Ludlow's efforts for a constitutional amendment giving the electorate the right to
vote on U.S. participation in foreign wars, eight numbered volumes and one index
volume, 1923-1948; four unnumbered scrapbooks of clippings, Nov. 1901-Mar. 1903,
Jan.-July, 1913 and 1927-1928. The first three unnumbered scrapbooks contain
clippings of newspaper articles by Ludlow.
In addition to the indexes for the first two series of scrapbooks, there are three
scrapbook indexes on cards as follows: a subject index, a title index, and an index
by names of newspapers.
Note on Indexing Term - "Law": Among the papers are letters and
petitions on the Peace Amendment which proposed to amend the Constitution of the United States to
provide for a referendum vote on war and to take the profit out of war, 1935-1940.
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Indexing Terms
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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.
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Names
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Ludlow, Louis,
1873-1950.
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Ludlow, Louis, 1873-1950.
--Correspondence.
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Gift. 1954, 1963, 1964
Usage Restrictions
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Ludlow mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Series:
Correspondence
Consult the Manuscripts Index in the Lilly Library for dates of letters of
individual correspondents.
Arrangement
The correspondence is arranged in chronological order.
Box 1
1898 - 1935,
May
Box 2
1935, June - 1937,
Mar.
Box 3
1937, Apr. -
1937, Oct. 27
Box 4
1937, Oct. 28
- 1938, Jan. 10
Box 5
1938, Jan. 11 -
1939, Apr.
Box 6
1939, May - 1940,
Apr.
Box 7
1940, May - 1940,
Dec.
Box 8
1941 - 1948
Series:
Printed
Box 8
Hell or Heaven, by Lewis Ludlow. Stratford, 1937
(1 folder)
A Comparison of the Political and Civil Rights of Men and Women
in the United States. USGPO, 1936
(1 folder)
Miscellaneous unbound clippings
(6 folders)
Series:
Scrapbooks
Subseries:
Numbered scrapbooks
Box 8
1901, Nov.
18 - 1902, Nov. 1
1902, Nov.
21 - 1903, Mar. 27
1913, Jan.
4 - 1913, July 31
Oversize Box 10
ca. 1924 - 1926
Oversize Box 11
1927 - 1928
Subseries:
War referendum scrapbooks
(Oversized items)
Oversize Box 1
1924 - 1937,
Feb.
Oversize Box 2
1937, Jan.
5 - Nov. 26
Oversize Box 3
1937, Nov.
26 - Dec. 22
Oversize Box 4
1937, Dec.
22 - 1938, Jan. 10
Oversize Box 5
1938, Jan.
10 - 16
Oversize Box 6
1938, Jan.
16 - Sept. 25
Oversize Box 7
1938, Oct.
3 - 1939, May 24
Oversize Box 8
1939, June -
1948, July
Oversize Box 9
Index
Subseries:
Scrapbook card indexes
Box 16
Subject index
A - Ludlow, office help
Box 17
Ludlow, Patronage - Politics, 2nd campaign,
1930
Box 18
Prohibition - Z
Title index
A - Ce
Box 19
Ch - Ludlow attacks
Box 20
Ludlow opens - Sp
Box 21
Sp - Z
Newspaper name index
A - E
Box 22
F - Indianapolis Star
Box 23
Indianapolis West Side Messenger -Z
Series:
Oversize
Box
12
Writings
In the Heart of the Hoosier Land. 1924.
Bound typescript, with corrections.
Hell or Heaven. 1936.
Bound typescript, 2 vols., with corrections
