Wabash (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Cecil Beeson collection
Collection
Identifier: L566
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed, autographed and photocopied documents from various people, government and private organizations collected by local genealogist and historian Cecil Beeson in Blackford County, Indiana, ranging from 1838 to 1972 regarding family histories, biographies, U.S. Civil War documents, church histories and governmental records.There is an oversize document, "The Early History of the First Baptist Church of Montpelier, Indiana" by Rev. C. H. Kendall, circa 1908...
Dates:
1839-1972, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cecil Beeson collection
Charles Goodman discharge papers
Collection — Folder S2570
Identifier: S2570
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the original item, a military discharge signed July 28, 1864 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Also written over the print, in red ink, is the paid-in-full certification from a paymaster in Indianapolis, dated August 3rd, 1864. The document also bears a stamp in blue ink for bounty paid, dated May 8, 1867, by US paymaster E.L. Moore. In faded blue typescript is information about Goodman's burial in Indianapolis in 1918. On the reverse is stamped and signed the approval of a...
Dates:
1864/07/28
James Johnston papers
Collection — Folder S2731
Identifier: S2731
Scope and Contents
This collection includes receipts and correspondence from James Johnston in Wabash, Indiana ranging from 1850 to 1863 regarding District #5 of Wabash and Erie Canal Company.
Dates:
1850-1863
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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James Johnston papers
John V. Beamer collection
Collection
Identifier: L517
Scope and Contents
This collection principally consists of papers related to John V. Beamer's career in U.S. Congress from 1951 to 1959 and includes correspondence regarding legislation and political issues from constituents and colleagues, national associations, labor unions, Indiana newspapers, colleges and universities, and businesses in his district; speeches, newsletters, and press releases; copies of the Congressional Record; newspaper clippings; campaign records, printing...
Dates:
1910-1974
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John V. Beamer collection
Lowell Nussbaum postcard photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P002
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographic prints and negatives of postcards from Lowell Nussbaum in Indiana ranging from circa 1910 to 1930s regarding Indianapolis buildings, street scenes and surrounding Indiana cities.
Dates:
circa 1910-1930s
Spanish American War letters
Collection — Folder S837
Identifier: S0837
Scope and Contents
This collection includes five hand written letters from Ed Lind in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from April 26, 1898, to July 21, 1898, regarding the muster of Indiana troops for the Spanish American War.
Dates:
1898
Wabash Carnegie Public Library oral history transcripts
Collection
Identifier: OH033
Scope and Contents
This collection contains oral history transcripts of interviews with 45 individuals, conducted by George Dingledy for the Wabash Carnegie Public Library Oral History Project ranging from 1971 to 1986, regarding their lives and the history of Wabash, Indiana and the surrounding area.
Dates:
1971-1986
