Collections

The Minnesota Review mss., 1973-1981, consist of the correspondence, printers manuscripts, and proofs of the New Series of the literary magazine published first in Madison, Wisconsin, and later in Bloomington, Indiana.

The Comic Art mss., 1906-1967, consists of original illustrations for comic books, newspaper comic sections, pulp magazines, and film animations.

The Shockley mss. consists of the notes and papers of historian Ernest Vivian Shockley, 1878-1924, relating to Indiana history.

The Ricketts mss., 9th-19th cent., are illuminated medieval and renaissance manuscripts assembled by Coella Lindsay Ricketts, 1859-1941, calligrapher, of Chicago, Illinois. Most of the material relates to religious matters.

The Fox mss., 1931-1969, consist of the papers of Fontaine Talbot Fox, 1884-1964, newspaper cartoonist of "The Toonerville Trolley."

The Hubbard mss., 1903-1968, consist of materials pertaining to the Abe Martin cartoons, created by Frank McKinney Hubbard, 1868-1930, humorist.

The Merrymount Press mss., circa 1904-1941, consist of in-house press printing order files relating to the production of Christmas cards, bookplates, and advertising ephemera.

The Forman mss., 1885-1887, are those cards and letters sent to Harry Buxton Forman, 1842-1917, editor, who at this time lived at 46 Marborough Hill, St. John's Wood, London. Written by Ford Madox Brown, 1821-1893, painter, and John Pollard Seddon, 1827-1906, art critic.

The Engel mss., 1862-1941, consists of letters to Harry Engel, 1901-1970, artist and professor dealing primarily with the murals in the Indiana University Auditorium, 1933-1941.

Form mss., 1915-1920, consist of drawings, etchings, and one letter related to the periodical Form: a quarterly of the Arts, edited by Austin O. Spare and Francis Marsden, published in London by John Lane (April, 1916) and Form: a monthly magazine of the Arts, edited by Austin O. Spare and W. H. Davies, published by The Morland Press, London (Oct.- Dec., 1921).