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Addison C. Harris papers

Collection — Folder: S0596

Identifier: S0596

Scope and Contents The collection contains three items ranging from 1880 to 1894, including a manuscript of Addison C. Harris’ account of the Quakers in the community where he was raised. He talks about their prosperity and his experiences attending the Quaker Meeting House and the Quaker school. He proceeds to discuss the founding and early history of the Quaker Church as well as Quaker beliefs. Also included are a pamphlet titled “Indiana” that also includes a map of the state and a memorandum brief submitted...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Albert J. Beveridge collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: L016

Scope and Contents The collection consists largely of Beveridge’s correspondence with John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chicago Evening Post and the Indianapolis Star and president of a syndicate owning the Indianapolis street railways. Included are letters from Beveridge as Shaffer’s lawyer handling the dissolution of the Indianapolis street railways syndicate (1893) and letters on personal and political matters (1897-1914). The collection also includes Beveridge’s manuscript for his Senate speech on the...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Austin H. Brown papers

Collection

Identifier: L019

Scope and Contents This collection contains Brown’s personal and business correspondence, as well as documents of political appointments, indentures, checks, receipts, clippings, and compositions, programs and other ephemera from social and political activities such as membership to the Democratic Party and Masons organizations. The correspondence includes letters from his father, William J. Brown, his brother, George, and cousin, John Ferguson. Other correspondents include Thomas A. Hendricks, James Whitcomb,...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Brown family collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: L020

Scope and Contents This collection contains Lyndsay Brown’s papers from the Indianapolis High School Alumni Association, his account of the Ohio River flood in 1937, and information from The Old Seminary Boys Group. Also included are papers of Ignatius Brown regarding road construction in the Pleasant Run area of Indianapolis circa 1898; and Hiram Brown's papers on water wheels and mills in Indianapolis.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Caleb Anderson papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S0022

Scope and Contents This collection contains three diaries of Caleb Anderson (1875, 1881, 1884-1885), in which he recorded the weather, prices, and his accounts. It also includes family letters and business papers; the correspondence of John T. Anderson regarding his work as an agent of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad in Ladoga (1864-1865); and John T. Anderson's record book of goods woven at the Ladoga mills (1882-1887).

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Cincinnati and Fort Wayne Railroad annual reports

Collection — Folder: S2023

Identifier: S2023

Scope and Contents This collection includes handwritten annual reports dating from 1856-1866.

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

David F. Allen biography

Collection — Folder: S637

Identifier: S0637

Scope and Contents This collection contains a copy of an eleven page typewritten biography of David F. Allen of Frankfort, Indiana. Ranging from 1808 to 1911, the biography includes Allen's family history, detailed information about his military service with Company C, Indiana 10th Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, his service with Company C, 150th Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War, and his service with Company 1 of the 38th Regiment U.S. Volunteers during the the...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Earl E. Fitch railroad receipts

Collection — Folder: S1803

Identifier: S1803

Scope and Contents This collection is made up of 8 way-bills from the 1850s, most for merchandise shipped from Richmond to New Castle, Indiana. These way-bills show transactions for: the Eaton and Hamilton and Richmond and Miami Railroads; the Cincinnati, Logansport and Chicago Railroad; the Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Line; and hauling for which shipping point and destination are handwritten without designation of a railroad line. Basic information on each way-bill consists of shipper,...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Earl F. Landgrebe papers

Collection

Identifier: L625

Scope and Contents The collection includes Landgrebe's Congressional papers, including correspondence, reports, and legislation regarding the Consumer Protection Act (1974), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1973), the Food and Drug Administration, the Tax Reform Act (1969), the Pollution Control Act (1971), farm bills (1969-1974), Watergate, the War in Vietnam, defense spending, abortion, the draft, foreign aid, railroads, public land use, poverty programs, the Pueblo Incident, and other issues before...

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

Ellsworth Walls collection

Collection — Folder: S1353

Identifier: S1353

Scope and Contents This collection comprises a 35-page autobiographical manuscript from Ellsworth Walls on December 14, 1936 covering his life from May 21, 1865 (his birth) to September 15, 1936 (the date of his wife Sarah's death).

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Addison C. Harris papers

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Cincinnati and Fort Wayne Railroad annual reports

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