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Henry J. Shombre collection

Collection — Folder: S1180

Identifier: S1180

Scope and Contents This collection contains photostatic copies made in 1947 of a diary kept by Henry J. Shombre while traveling to the gold fields of California in 1849. The diary entries range from March 29 to June 17th and relate Shombre's experiences traveling from Hagerstown, Indiana to Fort Laramie in Wyoming Territory by canal boat, steamboat, and wagon train. The copies were made from the original diary housed at the Kansas Historical Society. The collection also includes two photostatic copies...

Dates: 1849-1934

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Henry M. Dowling journal

Collection — Folder: S2415

Identifier: S2415

Scope and Contents This collection includes Henry McCabe Dowling's pocket-size journal containing entries ranging from 1822 to 1824. The journal has a few personal entries including one that mentions the death of a Rev. George W. Snyder on January 3, 1824, but the bulk of the volume contains notes regarding the writings of Horace, Dr. Johnson, John Locke, Milton, Virgil, and others. Several entries are in Latin with accompanying English translations and there is a list of months of the year and days of the week...

Dates: 1822-1823, 1849

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Henry Martyn Cist papers

Collection — Folder: S0257

Identifier: S0257

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence to Henry Martyn Cist and others, clippings, and photographs from several prominent military figures ranging from 1863 to 1891 regarding their military career, personal life, and political and war strategies during and after the Civil War.

Dates: 1863-1891

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Henry Ward Beecher collection

Collection

Identifier: L600

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, postcards, advertisements, and realia from a personal collector in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1830 to 1887 regarding Henry Ward Beecher's life and career in Brooklyn, New York and Indianapolis, Indiana.

There is also an oversize folder containing a portrait engraving of Beecher and newspaper clippings about him ranging from circa 1813 to 1887 (OBC122).

Dates: circa 1830-1887

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Herbert Heller collection

Collection

Identifier: L220

Scope and Contents This collection largely contains research notes, clippings, and transcriptions of original material compiled by Herbert Heller in Indiana for his historical research, ranging from 1831 to 1951 and undated, regarding local history of churches, schools, and people, including notes for his dissertation on the education of African Americans in Indiana during the 19th century.The typed transcripts include the diary of Lenna L. Hadley of Mooresville, Indiana (1890-1891); the personal...

Dates: circa 1940-1983

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Hermann and Lotte Termeer collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S3272

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials regarding Hermann and Lotte Termeer ranging from 1911 to 1945. Included in this collection is timeline of personal data about Hermann Termeer, a letter and postcard to Klara Riesterer of the Lebensmittelamt from Erich Riesterer, a service award won by Hermann Termeer from the Sinclair Corp. There are also several photographs, including several portraits of the Termeers, the workers of the German Sinclair Group, and 1 photograph of soldiers in the field....

Dates: 1911-1945

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Hibben family papers

Collection

Identifier: L069

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, invitations and calling cards, accounts, stamps, newspaper clippings, membership cards, legal documents, and other papers, as well as photographs, negatives, lantern slides, artwork, textiles, and realia from members of the Hibben and Ketcham families in Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, and Europe ranging from circa 1840 to 1937 regarding family, military, legal, and social matters. Much of the early correspondence belonged to Sarah...

Dates: circa 1840-1937

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Homer C. Dell collection

Collection — Folder: S2237

Identifier: S2237

Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopies of items from Homer C. Dell that are related to Spencer Township and North Vernon of Jennings County, Indiana. Items included are a January 28, 1922 letter, written on John C. Cope’s letterhead, that was sent to Jennings County librarian Mrs. Isaac C. Caldwell in response to a request for early history of North Vernon; the 8-page "History of Spencer Township" by Alice Jane (Bruner) Wohrer from circa 1927; and a clipping of the article, "Pioneer Woman...

Dates: 1922-circa 1960

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Homer J. Walt clippings

Collection — Folder: S1354

Identifier: S1354

Scope and Contents There are five items in this collection as follows: (1) Indianapolis News article dated September 3, 1966, titled "It Goes Like This" with photo of Homer J. Walt presenting Gov. Roger Branigin with a copy of his song, "In Hoosierland," written in 1949; (2) an article from The Plain Dealer, North Vernon, Indiana, dated October 13,1966, with photo, entitled "Tunnel Mill Should Be Restored Now"; (3) a...

Dates: 1966-1967

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Horne family collection

Collection

Identifier: L327

Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs, glass plate negatives, correspondence, papers, clippings, certificates, and an unbound scrapbook from Edwin Fletcher Horne and Cora Calhoun Horne and their family in New York and elsewhere in the United States, ranging from circa 1865 to 1941, concerning the family, African-American civil rights, slavery, politics, travel abroad to Europe, and civic engagement. The correspondence includes a handwritten letter from Benjamin Harrison denying any intention to...

Dates: circa 1865-1941

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Henry J. Shombre collection

Henry M. Dowling journal

Henry Martyn Cist papers

Henry Ward Beecher collection

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Hermann and Lotte Termeer collection

Hibben family papers

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