Procedure for accessing the Tuttle Manuscript collection:
1. Access a computer and go to the Lilly Library website and online collection lists.
2. Click on Guide to the Collections, which will appear on the left side of the computer screen.
3. Click on the category History, America.
4. A bunch of subcategories will come up on the right hand side of the screen--click on U.S. Civil War related collections.
5. The authors are listed alphabetically, so scroll down until you reach Tuttle.
6. This will take you to an information page about the Tuttle mss. collection.
-this collection is dated from 1838-1912. It includes letters from and to Elizabeth E. Tuttle (1823?-1896), who was a nurse and teacher in Colebrook, Ohio. She volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War, and a few of her letters address her experiences on the battlefield of Antietam. She also wrote about establishing hospitals at Harper's Ferry and at Gettysburg. The only other author in this collection is Ira Norris Noland, a physician who married Tuttle's niece. Among the materials concerning Noland is his certificate of membership in Company K (the 196th regiment Ohio infantry), social letters, and his diary, which includes information about his Civil War experiences.
7. Look to see how big the collection list is (119 items).
8. There is no call number because the collection consists of manuscripts, so it is necessary to request a manuscript collection form, which is pink and will be provided by the reading room attendant.
9. On the pink slip, indicate the author's name you are interested in and the collection list. If the collection list includes more than a couple hundred items, specify the particular items of interest.
10. Turn this slip into the attendant and wait patiently for him/her to bring you the requested manuscript collection.
These are very helpful directions! They are very specific and easy to follow. If I ever needed to find these materials I would know just how to do it.
ReplyDeleteI found these instructions to be very helpful as well. I didn't realize that there were different slips you had to fill out depending on whether or not it was a book or manuscript. I think that this was a very descriptive.
ReplyDeleteI like the specificity of your directions. When requesting materials at the Lilly, I was not aware that one needed a different slip to request manuscripts. Personally I find these directions very helpful, considering I am not the best with computers, and finding materials at the Lilly can be quite intimidating.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your through description.
Cara and I originally tried (unsuccessfully) to do this phase for Nightingale, so I'm glad to see that someone actually did it! For some reason I was very confused on what to actually search. I find these directions helpful-- you obviously took steps that I didn't think to take. It's very interesting to see what you were able to do, and will definitely help with my searches in the future.
ReplyDelete--Merey
Did anyone find the actual certificate that Tuttle received on her discharge? Here's a link that might have some interesting visual ephemera: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/history/history6.html
ReplyDelete-Dr. Graban