BUTLER MSS.
Inventory
Box 1
- Material relating to Butler family
- Correspondence, 1835-1897 (31 folders)
- Includes:
- Natural history notes, 1884-1892 (1 folder)
- Notes of visits-Eastern hospital, 1891 (1 folder)
- Notes of visits-Soldiers and sailors orphans home, 1891-1914 (1 folder)
- Natural history notes, 1893-1897 (1 folder, 1 notebook)
- Notes of visits-State prison, 1894-1916 (1 folder, 6 notebooks)
Box 2
- Correspondence, 1898-1909, Oct. 15 (31 folders)
- Includes:
- Notes of visits - Reformatory, 1902-1914 (1 folder)
- Notes of visits - School for Deaf, 1904 (1 folder)
- Notes of visits - Soldiers' Home, 1904 (1 folder)
Box 3
- Correspondence, 1909, Oct. 16-1913, Aug. (26 folders)
- Includes:
- R.S.V.P cards for Indiana Academy of Science banquet, Nov. 26, 1909 (1 envelope)
- Ticket stubs for Indiana Academy of Science banquet, Nov. 26, 1909 (1 envelope)
Box 4
- Correspondence, 1913, Sept.-1917, Dec. (25 folders)
- Includes:
- Mental Defectives in Indiana, 1916, Nov. 10; Indiana, A Century of Progress: A Study of the Development of Public Charities and Correction, 1790-1915, 1916; Survey of the Mentally Diseased and Defective in Indiana , for the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1917 (1 vol.)
Box 5
- Correspondence, 1917-1922 (20 folders)
Box 6
- Correspondence, 1922, July-1925, June (60 folders)
- Includes:
- Tributes to Amos William Butler, 1922 (1 folder)
Box 7
- Correspondence, 1925, July-1929, July (27 folders)
Box 8
- Correspondence, 1929, Aug-1937 (27 folders)
- Includes:
- Proceedings at Conference of Committee on Observance and Enforcement of Law, Apr. 26, 1930
- Indiana Committee on Observance and Enforcement of Law. Conference, July 26, 1930
- Report of the Advisory Committee on Penal Institutions, Probation and Parole, 1931
- Balance sheet, treasurer's report, and auditor's certificate for Hanover College, Apr.-May 1932
Box 9
- Charities (4 folders)
- Charities and corrections (4 folders)
- Photographs
- Amos William Butler
- Florida (3 folders)
- Miscellaneous (2 folders)
- Miscellaneous
- Brookville, Indiana - History
- Florida
- Indiana Academy of Science
- Mexico
- Miscellaneous
- Scientific Papers
- Prisons (5 folders)
Box 10
- Prisons (4 folders)
- Clippings, 1885-1934 (18 folders)
Box 11
- Clippings, 1935-1937 (4 folders)
- Printed
- Indiana Board of Charities and State Board of Control
- Charities and Corrections, Miscellaneous
- Child welfare. Eugenics
- Drug addiction
- Mental defectives
- Mental hygiene societies
- Poor relief in Indiana
- Psychiatry and the courts
- Statistics, surveys, and reports on prisons
- Senate and House bills
- Rules and forms pertaining to penal institutions
- Prison forms
- Probation material
- Prison associations
- Miscellaneous. Prison material
Box 12
- Printed
- Irvington Presbyterian Church
- Scientific societies
- Universities
- Miscellaneous
Oversize 1
- Scrapbook. 1907-1908
Oversize 2
- Scrapbook. 1910
Oversize 3
- Scrapbook. 1910
Oversize 4
- Scrapbook. 1922
Oversize 5
- Scrapbook. 1923-1927
Oversize 6
- Miscellaneous.
- Includes: bird sighting charts, 1895; prisoners' bill of fare, Indiana State Prison, Aug. 6 and 13, 1904; roll of the House of Representatives, Mar. 4 and 5, 1921; "Reception Committee," listed by Indiana county, undated
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