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Christian H. Tharp collection

Collection — Folder: S1299

Identifier: S1299

Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopied letters from Christian H. Tharp ranging from 1867-1901 regarding family news and community events.

Dates: 1867-1901

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, pencil drawings, negatives, 35mm slides, and family photographs from Christian Schrader in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1842 to 1987, regarding Schrader’s family, friends, and early Indianapolis. Schrader includes rough dates for the subjects he depicts in the drawings, but many of them were created from his recollections later in life. There are also oversize drawings (OBE017).Negatives are available for most of the drawings. In...

Dates: 1842-1987

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Claude Mason photograph album

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: P028

Scope and Contents This collection includes a photograph album with snapshots from Claude Mason in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1901 to 1914 and undated regarding his day-to-day life, family, friends, holidays, recreational activities, and various sites concerning his work as a civil engineer. There is also an envelope with loose photographs from the album.

Dates: 1901-1914, undated

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Clore and Garr family letters

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S0503

Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of letters written by the Clore and Garr families ranging from 1844-1879. The correspondence contains discussions about the weather, crops, family news, and the Civil War. Many of the letters were sent to John and Ann Garr by Ann's parents and siblings. They also received letters from their daughter, Mary; John's brother, Franklin; and his sister, Priscilla (1844-1866). The collection also contains family correspondence to and from James O. Garr (1868-1879).

Dates: 1844-1879

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Coleman family photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P019

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs and a couple postcards and dinner menus from the Coleman family taken in Indianapolis, Indiana, New York, California and other parts of the United States; Paris, France; Japan; United Kingdom; and Chile ranging from 1876 to 1935 and undated regarding family life and travel. Many of the photographs are individual portraits of unidentified family members and friends, while others are snapshots of the Colemans and others on vacation and going...

Dates: 1803-1935, undated

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Connie Beck papers

Collection

Identifier: L436

Scope and Contents This collection includes war ration books, genealogies, correspondence, guest and funeral books, greeting cards, photographs from the Rock, Beck and Sherrer families in Indiana, Missouri and elsewhere ranging from 1908 to 1962 regarding family genealogy, finances and business, correspondence with friends, World War II life, the Philippines, and Stephens College.

Dates: 1908-1962

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Cornelius Mayer papers

Collection

Identifier: L402

Scope and Contents This collection includes letters, official and legal documents, photographs and family papers, articles about Cornelius Mayer, and other materials belonging to Mayer ranging from 1628 to 1944 regarding Cornelius Mayer's family, his life and work, including drawing, and family business. There is also heraldic information, complete issues of the publication, Gewerbehalle, a German decorative arts periodical, a German rifle care manual, and a confectioners' recipe...

Dates: 1628-1944

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Crawford family photograph collection

Collection — Folder: SP023

Identifier: SP023

Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs from the Crawford and Dawson families in Indiana ranging from circa 1890s to 1910s, depicting portraits of children, young adults, and family groups, and snapsnots of family members, which include a couple of American soliders, probably around World War I.

Dates: circa 1890-circa 1910

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

David C. Turnbull collection

Collection

Identifier: L163

Scope and Contents The collection contains Civil War letters (1861–1865), business and legal documents relating to Kosciusko County (1836–1849), St. Joseph County (1847–1916), and other counties from David C. Turnbull. Also included are the correspondence of Alexander Grant of Cass County, Michigan (1871–1875), the Bidwell family of Niles, Michigan and Brownsville, Texas (1937–1940), and the Ackerman family of Niles (1940–1947). There are also documents relating to the Studebaker Company of South Bend, St. Joseph...

Dates: 1836-1966

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Denkichi Shindo collection

Collection — Folder: S3255

Identifier: S3255

Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of photographs taken circa 1909 at the Staughton A. Fletcher home in Southport, Indiana. Most of the photographs are of Juanita and Vivian Lee and were taken in various outdoor locations on the Fletcher property. Denkichi Shindo stands with the Lee sisters in one of the photographs. The collection also includes "Blind Old Horse Ruben", a reminiscence written by Shindo in 1946 about his time at the Fletcher home from 1908 to 1909, most notably his memories of...

Dates: circa 1909, 1946

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Christian H. Tharp collection

Christian Schrader collection

Claude Mason photograph album

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Coleman family photograph collection

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Denkichi Shindo collection

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