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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