MsC
256
Manuscript Register
PAPERS
OF OTTO
EISENSCHIML
Collection
Dates: 1936 to 1963
7.6 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Posted to Internet: May 2002
Acquisition
Note: This collection
was donated by Ralph G. Newman in 1975.
Access
and Restrictions: This collection is open
for research.
Photographs: Series I: Box 6
Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but
does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this
collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections
Department.
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Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence and biographical
material, typescripts, galleys, and published versions of Eisenschiml's articles,
reviews, and other major works, chiefly about Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln
assassination, and the Civil War; reviews of Eisenschiml's works;
correspondence,
legal briefs, petitions, and other records relating to Eisenschiml's suit
against Fawcett Publications, Inc
.
; and research materials including 19th and 20th century newspaper clippings, Civil War related publications, illustrations and prints.
Box
List
Series
I: Magazine and Newspaper Clippings
Box 1
Scrapbooks 1 -- 3 (Newspaper clippings)
Box 2
Scrapbooks 4 -- 5 (Newspaper clippings)
Box 3
Scrapbooks 6 -- 8 (Newspaper clippings)
Box 4
Scrapbooks 9 -- 14 (Newspaper clippings)
Box 5
Scrapbooks 15 -- 17 (Newspaper clippings)
Box 6
Civil War newspapers, original and photostats.
Photographs, mummy x-rays
Box 7
Newspaper clippings concerning the Civil
War
Box 8
19th
century newspaper clippings
Box 9
19th century newspaper clippings
Box 10
McClures and The Century: selection of issues
Box 11
20th century magazine clippings
Box 12
20th century magazine clippings
Box 13
20th century magazine clippings
Oversized Box 1
19th century newspapers
Oversized Box 2
19th century newspapers
Series II:
Eisenschiml manuscripts
Box 1
Assassination ms. Notes and bibliography.
Assassination -- Superseded manuscript
Box
2
Somebody Murdered Lincoln (published
as Why Was Lincoln Murdered?), two copies, one incomplete. Typescript
Box 3
Why Was Lincoln Murdered? Two
copies. Typescript
Box 4
Why Was Lincoln Murdered? Printer's
copy, footnotes, illustrations
Box 5
Why Was Lincoln Murdered?
Proofs, unbound copy
Box 6
The Hidden Face of the Civil War.
Manuscript
Box 7
In the Shadows of April 14 .
Manuscript
Box
8
A Challenge to Historical Critics
-- Superseded
manuscript
Success Story -- Superseded manuscript --
Incomplete?
The Lincoln Room Affair -- Superseded
manuscript
--
Incomplete?
Box 9
Newspaper clippings -- reviews, interviews,
articles, etc.
Box 10
Autobiography -- Superseded
manuscript
Box 11
Music; some with lyrics or translations
by Otto Eisenschiml
Series III: Research material
Box 1
Civil
War
pamphlets and booklets
Box 2
Miscellaneous
Box 3
Miscellaneous
Series IV: Civil War Illustrations and Broadsides
Box 1
Battle scenes and maps
Box 2
Personalities and other Civil War subjects
Oversized Box 1 (oversized flat box)
Folder 1 -- images of Civil War personalities
Folder 2 -- broadsides
Folder 3 -- miscellaneous oversized publications
Folder 4 -- illustrated 19th century journals
Folder 5 -- Lincoln assassination and funeral prints
Folder 6 -- political cartoons (Jefferson Davis)
Folder 7 -- political cartoons (Lincoln)
Folder 8 -- political cartoons (Miscellaneous)
Folder 9 -- political cartoons (Miscellaneous)
Oversized Box 2
Civil War Newspapers
Oversized Box 3
Civil War Newspapers
Mapcase
Folder 1 -- Oversized prints
1. Gulltown in an Uproar, published by J.L. Magee, Philadelphia, 1865. Large political cartoon concerning the Munchausen and Gull Creek Grand Consolidated Oil Compan.
2. General Robert E. Lee, Kurz and Allison lithograph, Chicago. Full equestrian view
3. The Prayer at Valley Forge, engraved by John C. McRae after a painting by H. Brueckner, published by John McRae,
New York, 1866.
George Washington Praying in the woods
4. General Grant and Family Circle, chromolithograph published by Lyons Co., New York, 1867. Domestic interior with full seated view of Grant and family
Folder 2
-- Miscellaneous posters and broadsides
Folder 3 -- Miscellaneous oversized material
The Dearborn Independent --
February 7, 1925; bound copy. Various
numbers from 1925 bound together
Lloyd's New Political Chart, 1861, published by H.H. Lloyd and Co., New York
