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Lilly Library

Lilly Library

1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
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The Lilly Library is the rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library of the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. Its collections represent a diversity of subjects, including literature; children’s literature; history; folklore; science; radio, film and television; book collecting and bookselling; journalism; and translation.

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Start Over You searched for: Names Lilly Library Remove constraint Names: Lilly Library Names Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Remove constraint Names: Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Repository Lilly Library Remove constraint Repository: Lilly Library Year 1840 to 1859 Remove constraint Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1840">1840</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1859">1859</span>

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The Colfax mss., 1853-1884, consists of the papers of South Bend, Indiana, newspaperman, speaker of the House of Representatives, and vice-president of the United States Schuyler Colfax, 1823-1885.
 
Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren), 1852-1918.
Consists of letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1852-1918, U.S. senator from Indiana and vice president (1905-1909), and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks, 1878-1938, newspaper publisher. The Charles Warren Fairbanks material, which comprises the bulk of the collection, consists of correspondence with prominent political figures, businessmen, bankers, friends, relatives and constituents; manuscript and printed speeches of Fairbanks; law office papers; bills and receipts; miscellaneous papers; newspaper clippings; invitations; calling cards; pictures; slides of Fairbanks's trip around the world, 1909-1910; and miscellaneous printed matter. The Warren Charles Fairbanks papers, 1918-1938, relate to the settlement of the estate of his father, Charles Warren Fairbanks; the Indianapolis News; the Fairbanks Blue ridge farms in Piatt County, Illinois; and the Fairbanks Valley farms in Greene County, Illinois.