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Jean de La Fontaine Les Fables Prints
Collection
Identifier: PRI004
Scope and Contents
A set of seven engravings with accompanying text leaves from the 1783 edition of the famous French verse tales, Les Fables, by Jean de la Fontaine, in which animals behave like human beings.
Dates:
1783
Etheridge Knight collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS011
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal and literary papers in Etheridge Knight’s possession at the time his death in 1991. Some items date as far back as 1965, but most fall into the period from 1982 to 1991. A collection of Knight’s earlier literary and personal papers is housed at the Ward M. Canaday Center at the University of Toledo. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, which has been subdivided into two categories: personal and professional. The personal...
Dates:
1965 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1991
Beldon Leonard Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS008
Scope and Contents
This collection is made up of reproductions of original musical works, many unpublished, by Butler University music professor Beldon Leonard. Leonard, who passed away in 1985, also conducted the Jordan Symphony Orchestra at Butler. The collection includes original works for full and string orchestras, transcriptions and arrangements for string orchestra, originals and arrangements for string quartet, and works for violin and piano and piano solo.
Dates:
circa 1948 - circa 1977
Lloyd Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS009
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials from the Lloyd, Dawson, and Collins families pertaining to their early lives in Indianapolis and surrounding areas.This collection is primarily composed of family photographs as well as documents pertaining to significant personal moments (such as weddings, funerals) and autobiographical or manuscript writings. Some of the more notable parts of this collection include an autobiography written by Edward H. Collins and additional writing by...
Dates:
1814 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1930
Manuscripts collection
Collection
Identifier: PRI003
Abstract
Artificial collection of mostly manuscripts, with a few printed items, spanning from the 13th to the 20th Centuries. Items were gifted to Butler or acquired from various sources.
Dates:
1260 - 1927
Adele Piel Meyer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS010
Abstract
This collection consists of documents from Adele Pier Meyer, who graduated from Butler in 1935. It reflects her time at Butler, her professional hospital work, and her interests, including travel.
Dates:
1907 - 1950
Fred Offutt Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS007
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of Fred Offutt, who attended the Jordan College of Music at Butler University as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, although he later transferred to the Indiana University School of Music. The papers primarily contain sheet music, programs, and a limited number of personal papers. This collection consists of music composed by Fred Offutt for vocals, instrumentals, and piano. Also included are various programs from the Jordan College of...
Dates:
1943 - 2013
Jeanette Siron Pelton botanical print collection
Collection
Identifier: PRI001
Scope and Contents
This collection of botanical prints contains original plates from herbals, plant histories, and botanical books and magazines from the 15th through the 19th centuries. The prints provide primary source materials illustrating the technological developments of early modern botanical, pharmacological , and medical sciences as well as the history and development of botanical illustration from woodcuts, to copperplate engravings, to chromolithographs. A few engraved portraits of botanists are...
Dates:
1491 - 1853
John E. Potzger collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS001
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, papers, publications, photographs, and ephemera that provide insight into John E. Potzger’s pioneering work in pollen studies and postglacial forest succession and his career with Butler’s Botany Department. The collection also contributes to an understanding of Potzger’s career as a teacher in a Lutheran day school, his music studies, his membership in such organizations as the Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, Phi Kappa Phi, the...
Dates:
1886 - 1975
Sigma Gamma Rho Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS084
Scope and Contents
The Sigma Gamma Rho Collection contains materials documenting nearly a century of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.’s history, predominately from 1946 through 2014 but including some historical information dating back to the Sorority’s founding in 1922. These materials were collected by the Sorority from the Sorority’s Grand Basilei (Sorority’s Presidents) for the purpose of documenting the history of Sigma Gamma Rho in preparation for the 100th anniversary. The collection contains many...
Dates:
1922 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1946 - 2014