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Oscar Lewis Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: OGLMC-1580
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: 1847-1899; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-1891; Other: Date acquired: 06/13/2010
Biographical Information
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: 1847-1899; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-1891; Other: Date acquired: 06/13/2010
Correspondence, Oscar to Ida, June 1889
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: June 1889
Correspondence, Oscar to Ida, July 1889
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: July 1889
Correspondence, Oscar to Ida, August 1889
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: August 1889
Correspondence, Oscar to Ida, September 1889
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: September 1889
Correspondence, Oscar to Ida, October 1889
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: October 1889
Correspondence, Oscar to Ida, November 1889
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: November 1889
Correspondence, Oscar to Ida, December 1889
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: December 1889
Correspondence, Oscar to Ida, December 1889
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: December 1889