4 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935.

  1. William L. Daley collection relating to Billy Sunday, 1914-1925

    300 items. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Evangelist, born William Ashley Sunday. Chiefly newspaper clippings compiled by Sunday's press agent concerning revivals held by Sunday. Also includes miscellaneous correspondence, sermon notes, brochures, and other printed matter.

  2. A.B. MacDonald papers, 1878-1976

    2,100 items. 8 containers plus 31 oversize. 8.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Journalist. Scrapbooks, diaries, clippings, correspondence, photographs, legal reports, ephemera, and other papers relating to A. B. MacDonald’s career at the Kansas City Star and other publications, his family life and history, and his personal interests. Includes material concerning his coverage of the Leo Frank lynching of 1915, diaries documenting MacDonald’s time with Billy Sunday’s evangelical campaigns from 1917 to 1918, and his coverage of the A. D. Payne murder case that won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1931.

  3. Ruth Page correspondence on Billy Sunday, 1944-1960

    148 items. 1 container. 0.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    This collection consists primarily of the correspondence between American dancer-choreographer and company director Ruth Page or her first husband attorney Thomas Hart Fisher and composer Remi Gassmann, who was contracted to create the music score for Page’s ballet Billy Sunday (1948). Other letters to Gassmann from this period and a small number of programs and press clippings related to Page's or Gassmann's careers round out the collection.

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  4. William Jennings Bryan papers, 1877-1940

    18,000 items. 59 containers and 7 oversize. 24.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Author, lawyer, orator, United States representative from Nebraska, and secretary of state. Correspondence, military papers and other material relating mainly to the presidential campaign of 1896, the Spanish-American War, Bryan's efforts to preserve world peace during World War I, his career as a lecturer for the Chautauqua Institution and its affiliates, and his interest in prohibition, political and monetary reform, and religious issues.