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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.
Dates:
circa 1860-1935
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
Balloon ascension circular
Collection — Folder: S3429
Identifier: S3429
Dates:
1873
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Craig A. Martindale photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P054
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 35mm slides, film, and papers most likely from Craig A. Martindale in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1983 to 1996, undated regarding family, county fairs, a 1992 fountain dedication at Butler University, vacations, agriculture, business, presentations, astronomy and astronautics, and 1996 finalists for the Ernst and Young LLP (EY) Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Some of the images seem to be guide and stock images used in business slide presentations.
Dates:
1983-1996, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crosstown Merchants Association collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3494
Content Description
This collection includes correspondence, photographs, and a minute book from the Crosstown Merchants Association in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1946 to 1957 regarding the annual street fair that the association heldfor charity and the operations of the association.
Dates:
1949-1957
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Edinburg Union Agricultural Society collection
Collection — Folder: S1970
Identifier: S1970
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a commercially printed ticket from Edinburg Union Agricultural Society in Johnson County, Indiana during 1882 regarding free admission to fair.
Dates:
1882
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indiana Democratic ticket and Indiana State Fair advertisement
Collection — Folder: S3500
Identifier: S3500
Content Description
This collection includes a straight-party voting flyer from the Indiana Democratic Party dated 1880 and an Indiana State Fair advertisement dated 1900 showing older attendees going to the fair would turn them into children again.
Dates:
1880, 1900
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indiana Department of Natural Resources conservation photograph collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: P076
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and its predecessor, the Department of Conservation, in Indiana ranging from 1921 to circa 1970 and undated, regarding the activities of the state agency, its personnel, and the resources under its oversight. Some of the photographs appear to have been used in a publication, possibly the department's periodical, Outdoor Indiana, with a few images featuring...
Dates:
1921-circa 1970, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indiana State Department of Agriculture, Indiana State Fair photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP076
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from the Indiana State Department of Agriculture in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1900 to 1927 regarding the Indiana State Fair and its various exhibits, venues, shows, buildings, and grounds.
Dates:
circa 1900-1927
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indiana State Fair calendars
Collection — Folder: OB138
Identifier: OB138
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 2 Indiana State Fair calendars for the year 1966.
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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