Indiana Girls’ School (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Anna W. Wright collection
Collection
Identifier: L550
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters to Governor Oliver P. Morton regarding the recruitment of Black troops for Indiana regiments during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1864) and letters from Oliver P. Morton to Jacob Wright concerning the 1868 Republican National Convention from 1866 to 1868. Also included are several family letters to Jacob Wright and correspondence from a variety of national politicians to Louis T. Michener responding to his requests for them to speak in Indiana during the 1890...
Dates:
1860-1911
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Anna W. Wright collection
Dana L. Blank oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH039
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a transcript and audiotape reel of an oral history interview with Dana L. Blank, conducted by Susan Bell for the Indiana State Library on October 19, 1973. Blank discusses her philosophy on recreation and corrections, the recreation programs she instituted at the Indiana Girls’ School, and the co-recreational activities with the Rockville Training Center and the Henryville Boy’s School.
Dates:
1973/10/19
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Dana L. Blank oral history
Indiana Industrial School for Girls photograph album
Collection — Box: P078
Identifier: P078
Scope and Contents
This collection comrpises a photograph album from the Indiana Industrial School for Girls in Indianapolis, Indiana circa 1907, regarding the institution, its inmates and staff, and the building and its various rooms.
Dates:
circa 1907
Rhoda M. Coffin, "Some Account of the Origin and Conduct of the Woman's Prison and Girls' Reformatory at Indianapolis, Indiana" account
Collection — Folder: S0278
Identifier: S0278
Scope and Contents
This collection includes six copies of an typed transcript of an essay titled, "Some Account of the Origin and Conduct of the Woman's Prison and Girls' Reformatory at Indianapolis, Indiana," written by Rhoda M. Coffin on February 14, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois. The article discusses Coffin and her husband's experience visiting jails, workhouses, and prisons thorughout the United States and her involvement with the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls, which became the Indiana...
Dates:
1902/02/14
