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David L. Elliott collection

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Identifier: L051

Scope and Contents The collection contains U.S. Civil War materials of David L. Elliott. Included are family correspondence, discharge papers, family photographs, bible, receipts, distribution rolls, certificates, ribbons of reunions, political campaign badges, and a Civil War diary (1864–1865). The collection also contains a history of the Battle of Chickamauga by Captain J.C. McElroy. There is also an 1865 muster-out roll for the 75th Regiment and Warren County postmaster appointment certificates from 1898 and...

Dates: 1845-1910

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

David McNabney letter and receipt

Collection — Folder: S2127

Identifier: S2127

Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter and receipt sent to David McNabney of Terre Haute, Indiana from the Office of the Sinking Fund at Indianapolis, Indiana. Both items are dated December 2, 1861, and they are in regard to interest payments on money McNabney borrowed from the fund. The collection also includes the envelope addressed to Mr. McNabney and postmarked December 2 from Indianapolis, June 1 at Terre Haute and then June 12 with a "Dead Letter Office" stamp.

Dates: 1861/12/02

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Della Lindley collection

Collection — Folder: S1893

Identifier: S1893

Scope and Contents This collection is divided evenly between two families, the Denny family of LaGrange County and the McConnell family of Noble County. Materials related to the Denny family date from 1858-1939 and include a teacher's license, academic admission slips, a license to practice medicine issued by the United States Internal Revenue, and receipts. Items relating to the McConnell family date from 1849-1932 and include the diagram of a plat for a graveyard, a teacher's license, a notice of acceptance...

Dates: 1849-1939

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Drinkwater family collection

Collection — Folder: S3119

Identifier: S3119

Scope and Contents This collection includes a plat for property in Perry County surveyed by Frederick Connor for Peter Drinkwater (June 4, 1851); Thomas Drinkwater's account book (1852-1856); eight bills and receipts for potatoes, meal, coffee, and other food items from the brothers' business as steamboat pilots (1855-1879); and a recipe for "Chinese Grip or Diamond Cement" (undated).

Dates: 1851-1879

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Edna Conduitt papers

Collection — Folder: S2131

Identifier: S2131

Scope and Contents This collection includes a June 16, 1933 letter, two depositor's bank orders valued at one dollar and five dollars and marked paid on June 15, 1933, and two unused depositors bank order receipts from the Citizens State Bank of New Castle, Indiana and sent to Edna Cunduitt at the State Capitol in Indianapolis. Miss Conduitt was the secretary of the Indiana Securities and Exchange Commission and had requested samples of script that the bank used during the bank holiday of March, 1933.

Dates: 1933

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Effa Danner collection

Collection — Folder: S2602

Identifier: S2602

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, receipts, and a clipping from Effa Danner in Indiana, ranging from 1849 to 1927 regarding steamboats. The letters were written by Danner circa 1927 concerning various steamboats, while the clipping concerns the Jacob Strader. The bulk of the collection comprises a series of receipts from various steamboat companies from 1849 to 1857. Generally, each receipt includes the ship name, ports that it picked up and dropped...

Dates: 1849-1927

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Elisha and Lucinda Cox family papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S2052

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of tax receipts and promissory notes of Elisha and Lucinda Cox ranging from 1819 to 1850. The collection also includes a poem about a January 10, 1820 dual in Lawrenceburg, Indiana; a September 3, 1824 indenture between Cox and David Shook for property in Lawrenceburg; a January 9, 1847 Probate Court document appointing Lucinda guardian of her children John A.J., Malinda, and Elisha William, the heirs of Elisha; and pages from a October 1860 pattern book. The...

Dates: 1819-1860; circa 1888

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Elizabeth J. Roby papers

Collection — Folder: S625

Identifier: S0625

Scope and Contents This collection consists of family letters primarily written to Elizabeth J. Roby, a resident of Salem, Washington County, Indiana from her cousins, William and Agnes Scott, of Smyrna, Iowa and from other family living in Xenia, Illinois ranging from 1855 to 1868 regarding farm life and family news. Also included in the collection are some of the original envelopes with postage stamps, two receipts, and an envelope with scraps of dress goods.

Dates: 1855-1868

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Etta L. Keely collection

Collection — Folder: S3468

Identifier: S3468

Scope and Contents This collection includes two receipts made out to Etta L. Keely for a Bible History and Literature course at Butler College (now Butler University). Dated October 18, 1921 and February 14, 1922, each receipt was for an $8.00 fee and was signed by Professor W. C. Morro, the head of the School of Ministerial Education at the college.

Dates: 1921-1922

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Etta Wright collection

Collection — Folder: S2064

Identifier: S2064

Scope and Contents This collection contains indentures, receipts, and other legal documents created in Logansport, Indiana from 1836-1925, probably by Williamson Wright.

Dates: 1836-1925

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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David L. Elliott collection

David McNabney letter and receipt

Della Lindley collection

Drinkwater family collection

Edna Conduitt papers

Effa Danner collection

Elisha and Lucinda Cox family papers

Elizabeth J. Roby papers

Etta L. Keely collection

Etta Wright collection

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