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Indiana State Capitol (Indianapolis, Ind.)

 Organization

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Abraham Lincoln funeral train ivy

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: L616
Scope and Contents This collection includes a framed piece of ivy from Lincoln's casket while in Indianapolis, Indiana during the funeral train.
Dates: 1865/04/30

Early Indiana photographic slides

 Collection — Folder: SP038
Identifier: SP038
Scope and Contents This collection includes 35mm slides in Indiana circa 1950s regarding people, such as Father Pierre Gibault, Little Turtle, Tecumseh, William Henry Harrison, George Rapp, Robert Owen, Oliver P. Morton, James Whitcomb Riley, and Levi Cotton, and places like Vincennes, Corydon, New Harmony, and Indianapolis, significant to early history of Indiana.
Dates: circa 1950

Gettysburg Address Reenactment collection

 Collection — Folder: S1439
Identifier: S1439
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence pertaining to the Gettysburg Address Reenactment performed at the Indiana State Capitol in Indianapolis on November 19, 1980. The program entitled "A New Birth of Freedom," which includes pictures of the participants in costume, is also available in the collection.
Dates: 1980

Indiana scenes photographic slides

 Collection — Folder: SP041
Identifier: SP041
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographic slides from different cities in Indiana ranging from circa 1950s to 1960s regarding buildings, monuments, businesses, other structures, and urban and rural scenes.
Dates: circa 1950-circa 1960

Indiana State House collection

 Collection
Identifier: L574
Scope and Contents This collection includes autographed and typeset reports from the Board of State House Commissioners in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1881 to 1884 and a scrapbook of newspaper articles, state documents and autographed documents from 1878 to 1888 regarding the building of the Indiana State House/Capitol.
Dates: 1878-1888

Indiana Statehouse construction architectural drawings and newspaper clippings

 Collection — Folder: OBC185
Identifier: OBC185
Scope and Contents This collection contains images, drawings, and clippings regarding the construction of the third Indiana State House from 1831 to 1876.
Dates: circa 1831-1876

Susan M. Ketcham papers

 Collection — Folder: S0773
Identifier: S0773
Scope and Contents This collection contains a handwritten narrative by Susan M. Ketcham regarding her grandfather, Samuel Merrill, and her mother, Jane Merrill, circa March 15, 1925. Along with brief biographical information, Ketcham relates her mother's story about traveling with her father when he moved the state treasury from Corydon to Indianapolis and she also describes how Mr. Merrill traveled around the state as a bank examiner.
Dates: circa 1925/03/14

Yandes family papers

 Collection — Folder: S1479
Identifier: S1479
Scope and Contents This collection includes letters from the Yandes family in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, and Cuba ranging from 1833 to 1891 regarding local and family news, women's education, business, the Indiana State House, national and local politics, and the Civil War. Mary Yandes' letter to Ann Hampson on July 15, 1837 mentions Zerelda Gray Sanders' marriage to Governor David Wallace of Indiana (one year prior). There are also trade cards for Yandes family businesses in Indianapolis, Indiana, two blank greeting...
Dates: 1833-1891