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Vivid account, in the form of a letter to the mayor of Indianapolis dated Oct. 19, 1937, of underclass life in Indianapolis, Indiana, 1910-1920, including murder, prostitution, and robbery.

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Correspondence, legal papers, and newspaper clippings relating to the experiences, 1949-1953, of Edwin E. White, as a conscientious objector.

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Letters written by relatives in Indiana, Kansas, and Iowa to John P. and Ellen (Cook) Ratcliff of Henry County, Indiana; photographs of scenes and events around Spiceland, Indiana.

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Discharge certificate for Daniel Cline of Scioto County, Ohio, from Company C, 91st Ohio Infantry, 1865

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Damascus Academy, Ohio, Autograph Books for George and Alice (Wood) Pim.

Content Description 2 items relating to Abel Thomas (ca 1736-1816), a Friends minister of Exeter, Pennsylvania. The first is a photocopy of the 1824 "Brief Memoir of Abel Thomas." The second is a facsimile of a manuscript, "The Defence of Abel Thomas Accompanied by His Friend James Thomas on a Religious Visit to Friends of New Jersey and New York Governments, Wxamined and Acquitted by the Governor and Council for Their Having Crossed the British Lines without a Pasport Etc in the Year 1778. Transcribed from a...

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Relate to the family of William Heald (1767-1868), an Orthodox Friend of Columbiana County, Ohio, and his descendants; and to the Minthorn family of West Branch, Iowa, and Newberg, Oregon.

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Autobiographical writings

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Deed, Feb. 12, 1835, from Gardner and Phebe Mendenhall to William Hart for a lot in the town of [West] Milton, Miami County, Ohio.

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Pen and ink tree, probably nineteenth century, of descendants of David and Mary (Lefevre) Deshler, convinced Friends of Philadelphia, married 1739