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Nelson family papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S2600

Scope and Contents This collection contains genealogical records and correspondence for the Nelson family of Jennings and Jefferson Counties in Indiana. Most of the records are listings of marriages, births, and deaths of various members of the Nelson family and their children.Item Listing:1757-1800 - Family record of Moses Nelson1757-1868 - Births and deaths record1757-1878 - Births and deaths record1803-1863 - Family records of Daniel H. Nelson and...

Dates: 1857-circa 1960

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Nibarger family photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P058

Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs and an autograph album from the Nibarger family in Indiana ranging from circa 1880 to 1948 regarding family members, group photographs, and World War II soldiers. One photograph has a letter written on the back from Orville Nibarger to his sister and brother (possibly Ida and her husband Duke) on July 2, 1948 regarding sale of a house

Dates: circa 1880-1948

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Nina Pearl Gaskill Butzbach family papers

Collection — Folder: S2732

Identifier: S2732

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence and stock certificates from the Gaskill and Butzbach families in South Bend, Indiana ranging from 1852 to 1940 regarding everyday life, Monroe Baking Company, and travels.

Dates: 1852-1940

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Noah Davis collection

Collection — Folder: S0341

Identifier: S0340

Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of letters, articles, and photographs from the Davis family in Indiana ranging from 1851 to 1972 regarding famly life and business and the U.S. Civil War. There are also genealogical charts prepared by Julia Helen Davis Smith on October 31, 1972. Subjects of the photographs are family reunions and a G.A.R. convention. The articles contain information about medicines, women, temperance meetings, and a washing machine.

Dates: 1851-1972

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Noble Chase Butler collection

Collection

Identifier: L026

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of letters to Noah Chase Butler from the period of 1870-1933. There are a number of letters from Walter Q. Gresham, his law partner, on political and legal affairs. A large portion of the remaining correspondence is family letters, including letters from his son, Noble Butler, Jr. while a student at Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute (1898) and from his daughters in Oberlin, Ohio; Ithaca, New York; and Summit, New Jersey. There are also letters regarding...

Dates: 1820-1933

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Norris family photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P035

Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs from the Norris family in Whitely County, Indiana ranging from circa 1860 to circa 1950 and undated regarding several generations of the family as well as the Hower, Carns, and Smale families, and the Norris family homes and businesses. Box 2 contains a late 19th-century photograph album with tintypes and cartes de visite of members of the Carns, Smale, and Norris families

Dates: circa 1860-circa 1950

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Oliver P. Davis family correspondence

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S3478

Scope and Contents This collection contains photostats of correspondence of Oliver P. (O.P.) Davis and his family. The correspondence from 1846 to 1861 includes letters written by Davis to his wife Eliza during his travels for business and while he was in Indianapolis during the Indiana Constitution Convention and his service in the Indiana Senate; three letters from Congressman Edward W. McGaughey; and letters sent by Davis to the Oldridge family. The correspondence from 1864 to 1868 conisists of...

Dates: 1846-1899, circa 1927

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Oral history and audio collection

Collection

Identifier: L640

Scope and Contents This collection comprises the breadth of the oral history collection at the Indiana State Library, ranging from circa 1904 to 2019. The bulk of the collection contains oral histories created during the ISL Oral History Project during the 1960s-1980s and recordings of events, meetings, recitations, and radio interviews created and acquired by library staff during that period. The remainder are oral histories created by various outside institutions and organizations, such as universities, public...

Dates: circa 1904-2019

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Paul Herring diary

Collection — Folder: S0640

Identifier: S0640

Scope and Contents This collection includes 97 photocopied pages of Paul Herring's 1873 diary. Herring's entries are in both English and German and he refers to himself as "the writer". Most entries start with a description of the weather and they relate daily activities of his family and himself. Remarks about farming activities are a common theme, but he also describes special days such as Decoration Day (May 30), Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Also included are hymns in German, and poems by...

Dates: 1873

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Peddle family collection

Collection — Folder: S1048

Identifier: S1048

Scope and Contents The collection includes comprises an unbound volume titled, "Letters of the Peddle Family: Civil War Period," which contains transcribed letters from members of the Peddle family, ranging from 1834 to 1901. The volume includes genealogical charts, background information, and a foreword by the compiler, Juliet Peddle, in Terre Haute, Indiana on February 1, 1947. The letters were found in a trunk belonging to Sarah Peddle Burton (1852-1939). There are also two photographic prints of collages of...

Dates: 1834-1901, 1947

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Nelson family papers

Nibarger family photograph collection

Nina Pearl Gaskill Butzbach family papers

Noah Davis collection

Noble Chase Butler collection

Norris family photograph collection

Oliver P. Davis family correspondence

Oral history and audio collection

Paul Herring diary

Peddle family collection

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