Indiana. State Board of Agriculture
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Advertising cards and ephemera collection
Collection — Folder: S3117
Identifier: S3117
Scope and Contents
This collection includes advertising cards, tickets, calling cards, a postcard, and pamphlets from various businesse enterprises and organizations in Indianapolis, Indiana and New York, New York, ranging from circa 1860 to 1935 regarding products such as tonics and curatives, soap, coffee, and tickets to fairs and sporting, club, and public speaking events. Many of the cards appear to have been removed from a scrapbook.Later addition includes advertising cards from The Voice of Good...
Dates:
circa 1860-1935
Alexander Heron collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0860
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and complimentary fair tickets from across Indiana sent to the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, Alexander Heron. Ranging from 1885 to 1890, the collection includes tickets from community, county, and district fairs; Trotting and Pace Horse Breeders' Association fairs; Agricultural Association, Agricultural Society, and Agricultural and Mechanical Society fairs; Joint Stock Association and Joint Stock Society fairs; Farmers' Union Association...
Dates:
1885-1890
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alexander Heron collection
Alexander Heron correspondence
Collection — Folder: S0641
Identifier: S0641
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from and received by Alexander Heron in Brookville, Indiana, and Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1870 to 1900 regarding the Indiana State Board of Agriculture as well as personal correspondence.
Dates:
1870-1900
Indiana Sanitary Commission, Civil War collection
Collection — Folder: S2575
Identifier: S2575
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two letters, both dated 1864. The first, signed by the members of the Committee, which included Eric Locke, the superintendent of the Indiana Sanitary Fair, suggests that women of the county to which the letter was addressed might have a county department in the bazaar building.A second letter, dated September 2, 1864, reports a resolution of the Grand Lodge for Indiana Masons, which called for Masonic lodges throughout Indiana to show their benevolence to...
Dates:
1864/08/02-1864/09/02
Indianapolis businesses collection
Collection — Folder: S1978
Identifier: S1978
Scope and Contents
This collection includes commercially printed brochures, business forms, post cards envelopes and typed and autographed, signed letters and post cards from businesses in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1880 to 1885 and undated regarding business services and contracts.
Dates:
1880-1885, undated
John Brown Dillon collection
Collection
Identifier: L377
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of John B. Dillon’s historical notes on people and events relating to the early exploration and settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest. Also included is a scrapbook of Dillon’s letters published in newspapers on the U.S. Civil War, the Republican Party, and Indiana history (1861–1876); letters to Dillon regarding the Historical Society, the Indiana Sanitary Fair (1864), and Dillon’s historical work; and a memorial by John Coburn on the life of John Brown...
Dates:
1859-1886
Mrs. Robert Denny diploma
Collection — Folder: OB146
Identifier: OB146
Scope and Contents
The collection contains one diploma created by the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, issued to Mrs. Robert Denny in 1868 for amaranths or amaranthus.
Dates:
1868
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mrs. Robert Denny diploma
Murray's Pills collection
Collection — Folder: S1553
Identifier: S1553
Scope and Contents
An envelope and a tiny advertising card are in this collection. The envelope has pencil notations but not an address. The return address is imprinted thus: Indiana State Board of Agricult, Secretary's Office. The envelope advertises the 18th Annual Fair, October 3, 1870.The second item is small (2 1/4 inches wide and one inch high) cardboard advertisement for trademark M.I.S.T., "Murray's Infallible Scrofula, Blood, Liver and Kidney Pills, 34 Circle Street, Indianapolis, Price One...
Dates:
1870
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Murray's Pills collection
