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REEL 117-121 Series 8, Speeches, 1878-1901
Includes notes, drafts, reading copies, and printed copies of campaign speeches, special messages to Congress, and post presidential lectures and speeches.
Arranged chronologically.
REEL 117 1878, Aug. 9-1888, Sept. 29
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REEL 118 1888, Oct. 2-1892, Dec. 6
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REEL 119 1892, Dec. 6-1894, Mar. 12
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REEL 120 1894, Mar-1900, Dec.
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REEL 121 1900, Dec.-1901, Mar.
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REEL 121-122 Series 9, Writings, 1895-1897
Manuscripts of a series of articles written for the Ladies Home Journal (Dec. 1895-May 1897) entitled "This Country of Ours." Page proofs of the articles as they appeared in the magazine follow.
Arranged after the articles is the revised and supplemented text that formed a book entitled This Country of Ours (1897). Manuscripts for the book are succeeded by galley and page proofs with annotations.
REEL 121 1895-1897
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REEL 122 1895-1897
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REEL 122-123 Series 10, Legal Instruments, 1852-1898
Deeds, petitions, agreements, etc.
Arranged chronologically.
REEL 122 1852-1898
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REEL 123 Undated
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REEL 123-135 Series 11, Legal Cases and Firm Letter Press Copy Books, circa 1855-1900
The cases are arranged alphabetically by the first party named. Cases files include briefs, counter briefs, records of trials, notes and memoranda, and, in the Morrison will case, shorthand notebooks. The firm letter press copy books, to which consecutive numbers have been assigned, concern business of the firms [William] Wallace & Harrison and Harrison & [William P.] Fishback, and some individual business of Harrison and of Fishback as Pension Agent.
Volumes contain their own indexes and letters generally appear chronologically.
REEL 123 Cases 1-26
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1. Adams vs. Indiana Baking Co.
2. Amick vs. Hadley.
3. Ashbrook vs. I. P. & C. R. W. Co.
4. Aspen Consolidated Mining Co. vs. John R. Williams.
5. Harvey R. Barlow vs. Samuel W. Hollingsworth.
6. James G. Blaine vs. Indianapolis Sentinel Co. and John C. Shoemaker.
7. James S. Breckinridge vs. Lafayette Rail Road Co.
8. Brett vs. Geisendorf.
9. Polland S. Brown and wife vs. Fall Creek and Mud Creek Gravel Road Co.
10. Brown, Blair, & Co. vs. First National Bank of Indianapolis.
11. Brown et al vs. Walpole's Administrator.
12. California Irrigation cases.
13. Campbell Wild & Co. vs. Board of School Commissioners.
14. Caylor vs. Cansuse.
15. Chicago Street Railway.
16. Claypool [railroad wreck case].
17. Continental Trust Co. vs. P. D. & E. R. R. Co.
18. Crane & Wesson vs. Aetna Life Insurance Co. et al.
19. Cunningham vs. Evansville & Terre Haute R. R. Co.
20. De Pauw will case.
21. Carlos Dickson et al vs. Indianapolis Cotton Manufacturing Co.
22. Duke v. King.
23. Eel River Railroad Co. vs. State of Indiana.
24. Eureka Mower Co.
25. Frederick Fairbirn (C. C. Heizer, Trustee).
26. Caroline M. Forsyth vs. City of Hammond.
REEL 124 Cases 27-57
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27. Forsythe vs. Smale.
28. Gambole vs. Vandalia R. R. Co.
29. Goodall & Strickland vs. Wood & Boyd.
30. Gravel Road Co. cases.
31. Gray vs. Clippinger's Estate.
32. John S. Hall et al vs. Elisha Kise.
33. Hancing vs. Hartman.
34. Catherine A. Higgs vs. John M. Higgs.
35. Holmes vs. Pierce.
36. Huff vs. Kimball.
37. Hughey vs. May.
38. Illinois inheritance tax cases.
39. Indiana vs. Jon Cline.
40. Indiana National Bank vs. John P. Meikel et al.
41. Indianapolis: Street Railway Cases.
42. Jameson vs. City of Indianapolis.
43. Johnson & Johnson vs. Bauer & Black.
44. Johnson et al vs. Indianapolis & Oakland Gravel Road Co.
45. Henry C. King vs. Altizer et al.
46. Langsdale vs. Clem.
47. Lewis vs. City of Indianapolis.
48. Logansport, Crawfordsville, & South Western R. R. Co.
49. Garrett J. Lydecker courts-martial case.
50. McCool vs. Lyon et al.
51. Ronald T. McDonald vs. Fort Wayne Electric Co.
52. Martindale vs. Rosengarten et al.
53. Meyers vs. Universaw.
54. Meyers vs. Manhattan Life Insurance Co.
55. Milligan vs. Rand
56. Miller vs. Talbot.
57. Morrison will case.
REEL 125 Case 57
57. Morrison will case.
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REEL 125 Shorthand notebooks
1-6
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REEL 126 7-14
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REEL 127 15-22
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REEL 128 22-30
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REEL 129 30-38
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REEL 130 38 (cont.)-46
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REEL 131 46-53
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REEL 132 54-61
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REEL 133 62, 1858-1859
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REEL 133 Cases 58-83
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58. Musser vs. Mooney.
59. National Gas Co.
60. Parrott et al vs. Harter.
61. Raymond vs. Royal Baking Powder Co.
62. Roberts vs. Ryan.
63. Rybalt vs. Free.
64. Santa Cruz case.
65. Saunders vs. Loy.
66. Seidensticker vs. Essman.
67. Slingart vs. Wm. R. Miles.
68. Simmons vs. Brown.
69. Sny Levee case.
70. State ex rel Bowers vs. Wiley et al.
71. Standard Elevator Co. vs. Crane Elevator Co.
72. Standard vs. Nofsinger.
73. Stowe vs. Kingsley.
74. Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R. Co.
75. Turner vs. Hocker.
76. U. S. vs. Southern Pacific Company.
77. U. S. vs. Stanford Estate.
78. Wallace vs. Fall Creek and Warren Township Gravel Road Co.
79. Wands vs. City of Indianapolis.
80. Western Contract & Construction Co. vs. New Albany & Eastern Ry. Co.
81. Westling vs. Pleasant Run Gravel Road Co.
82. Worthington Co. vs. Indianapolis Gas Co.
83. Wright vs. McGinnis.
REEL 133 Letterbooks
1-2, 1858-1859
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REEL 134 2 (cont.)-5, 1859-1862
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REEL 135 5, 1862-1864
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REEL 135-140 Series 12, Financial, 1836-1900
REEL 135 Record Book, Wallace & Harrison, 1856-1862
REEL 135 Record book, 1856-1862
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REEL 135-136 Cash and Account Books, Wallace & Harrison, 1854-1862
REEL 135 Cash and account books, 1854-1862
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REEL 136 Cash and account books, 1854-1862 (cont.)
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REEL 136 Account Book, Harrison & Fishback, 1861-1865
REEL 136 Account book, 1861-1865
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REEL 136 Record Book, Harrison & Fishback, 1862-1867
REEL 136 Record book, 1862-1867
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REEL 136 Cash Book, Indiana Reports, 1865-1870
REEL 136 Cash book, 1865-1870
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REEL 136 Pocket-book Diaries Containing Occasional Notes and Accounts, 1858-1872
REEL 136 Pocket-book diaries, 1858-1872
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REEL 136 Bank Books, Personal, 1867-1884
REEL 136 Bank books, 1867-1884
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REEL 136-140 Personal Business and Legal Practice Finances, 1836-1900
Checks, notes, bills, receipts, and accounts deriving from personal business and legal practice.
Arranged chronologically; within date, alphabetically by signer.
REEL 136 1836, Sept.-1860, Nov. 8
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REEL 137 1860, Nov. 24-1867
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REEL 138 1868, Jan. 1-1871, Nov. 3
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REEL 139 1871, Dec. 1-1891, Mar.
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REEL 140 1891, Apr.-1900
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REEL 140-143 Series 13, Venezuela Boundary Dispute, 1895-1899
Contains notes and information compiled for the Venezuelan case before the Arbitration Tribunal in Paris, France, May-September 1899, especially notes Harrison compiled for his argument before the tribunal; printed copies of the argument, first in printed form, followed by the manuscript; the typed and printed materials compiled for the case; and descriptions of the meetings extracted from letters and newspapers.
Arrangement is by type of material with overlapping dates.
REEL 140 Part 1, 1895-1899
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REEL 141 Part 2, 1895-1899
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REEL 142 Part 3, 1895-1899
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REEL 143 Part 4, 1895-1899
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BOX 13:31 Bound copies of the proceedings, 1898
BOX 13:31 The counter-case of the United States of Venezuela before the tribunal of arbitration, vol. 1
BOX 13:32 The counter-case of the United States of Venezuela before the tribunal of arbitration, vol. 2
BOX 13:33 The counter-case of the United States of Venezuela before the tribunal of arbitration, vol. 3
BOX 13:34 Atlas See Oversize
BOX 13:35 Printed argument on behalf of the United States of Venezuela before the tribunal of arbitration, vol. 1
BOX 13:36 Printed argument on behalf of the United States of Venezuela before the tribunal of arbitration, vol. 2
BOX 13:37 The case of the United States of Venezuela before the tribunal of arbitration, vol. 1
BOX 13:38 The case of the United States of Venezuela before the tribunal of arbitration, vol. 2
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