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Found 200 resultsOliver 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
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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
Pepper family photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP138
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs taken by Kate Reifel Pepper and others from Franklin County, Indiana in ranging from circa 1914 to circa 1915 regarding the Pepper and Reifel families, bridge building, farming, and Peppertown, Indiana.
Dates:
circa 1914-circa 1915
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Perkins and Vert family papers
Collection — Folder: S0795
Identifier: S0795
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an inventory of the personal estate of William Perkins of Lawrence County, Indiana (January 31, 1853); an indenture from James Hall of Indianapolis to John F. Vert of Marion County, Indiana regarding a lease of a sawmill in Lawrence Township in Marion County (June 27, 1853); a discharge paper for William H. Vert after completing his one year service with Company B, 150th Illinois Infantry Regiment (January 16, 1866); and a letter written by Lurania Goodman from Grayson...
Dates:
1853-1895
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Porter family letters
Collection — Folder: S3142
Identifier: S3142
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of autographed and signed and printed and signed legal documents and personal correspondence between the Holman and Porter families in Indiana from 1830 to 1881.
Dates:
1830-1881
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Porter-Griffin family papers
Collection
Identifier: L535
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises correspondence, papers, accounts, school and organizational papers, pamphlets, periodicals, publications, broadsides, ephemera, and business records from the Porter and Griffin families, as well as their business enterprises, in Corydon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1813 to 1983, regarding their lives and businesses, as well as related family and friends, and the history of Harrison County and Indiana. The collection is organized in eight...
Dates:
1813-1983
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pressey family papers
Collection — Folder: S1078
Identifier: S1078
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters from brothers Peter and Charles Pressey of Carlisle, Indiana, to Daniel Pressey of Rockingham, New Hampshire, and later, West Newbury, Massachusetts, ranging from 1812 to 1826, regarding family life and finance. The collection also includes a probate record for Daniel Pressey, dated June 8, 1832, naming Anna Pressey as executrix.
Dates:
1812-1832
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Raymond and Vesta Kepfer photographic slides
Collection — Folder: SP043
Identifier: SP043
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 35mm photographic slides from Raymond and Vesta Kepfer in California in 1975 regarding people, possibly the Kepfers and their family and friends, arid locales in California, and a rose parade, probably the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. There is also one slide of Koenigstuhl in Heidelberg, Germany.
Dates:
1975
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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