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This collection of personal papers reflects his work for the college and activities in the community, especially his role in the restoration and opening to the public of the Levi Coffin House in Fountain City. The Robert N. Huff Papers consists of letters written by Robert N. Huff to his wife, Elizabeth (Bell) Huff, while he was traveling on college business as well as material concerning the Levi Coffin House in Fountain City.

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The collection includes correspondence, business papers, genealogical material, and photographs relating to Richmond and Carthage.

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Correspondence, essays, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, publications, and ephemera of the family of Jonah M. Davis (1824-1899) and his wife Ella (Jenkins) Davis (1848-1900) and their children Royal J. Davis (1878-1934), Ruby (1880-1975), and Ellen (Nellie) Davis (1883-1974) of Richmond, Indiana, and New York.

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Correspondence, essays, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, publications, and ephemera of the family of John F. Stanton (1841-1925) and his wife Emily (Hadley) Stanton (1843-1910) of Indiana and Ohio.

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The Thomas E. and Esther B. Jones Collection consists of personal papers of Thomas E. Jones, the president of Fisk University from 1926 to 1946 and Earlham College from 1946 to 1958, and his wife Esther (Balderston) Jones, a missionary teacher in Japan.  It contains significant material on Quaker work in Japan, race relations, Earlham College, and Quaker affairs in the twentieth century.

Scope and Contents The Timothy Nicholson Papers document aspects of the career of one of the most influential Indiana Friends of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Consisting of correspondence, essays, printed materials, and a sound recording, the collection, although relatively small, is a rich resource for American Quaker history, especially for the period 1880-1900. Nicholson's correspondents between 1880 and 1900 included some of the most prominent Quakers in America, and his papers are a rich...

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The Vernon Family Papers consist of correspondence, business documents, and genealogical material relating to the family of Richard Vernon (1789-1877) of Stokes County, NC and Jefferson County, IN. The correspondence includes letters from relatives in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina with comments on farming, slavery, business, and the coming of the Civil War.

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The collection consists of materials collected by Virgil H. Kruel (1918-2003) concerning pacifism during World War II. The collection contains primarily pacifist literature and a few items of war propaganda. The correspondence includes information on Kruel's efforts to obtain conscientious objector status. it also includes a letter from someone named Chuck written from a Federal Correction Institute in Ashland KY regarding his experience in prison.

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The collection consists of correspondence on Quaker affairs, especially relating to the Five Years Meeting. It apparently is a fragment of Woodward's papers, most of which are still in the hands of family.

Scope and Contents The Warner-Winder-Calvert Papers consist of account books, diaries, letters, photographs, and other manuscripts of six generations of Quaker families in Ross and Clark counties, Ohio. The most significant materials reflect farm life in the Midwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest document in the collection is the account book of John Winder (1736-1819), a Friend born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who married Margaret Briggs (1740-1812). In 1795 he led a party...