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Frontier and pioneer life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

L. C. Smith letter

 Collection
Identifier: S1209
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter from L. C. Smith to Simeon Chase in Wayne County, Indiana on December 2, 1818 regarding the county, health of the people, and his salary as a teacher.
Dates: 1818

Lasselle family photographs

 Collection — Folder SP080
Identifier: SP080
Scope and Contents This collection includes carte-de-visite and daguerreotype portrait photographs of the Lasselle family from Fort Wayne, Indiana and New Orleans, as well as unknown places, ranging from circa 1841 to 1876, depicting three of Hyacinth Lasselle's children, Charles, Stanislaus, and Marie Louise, and several descendants--Francis J. Lasselle, Sophia A. (Lasselle) Nettlehurst DeWald, Hannah Nettlehurst, Apolline Julie (possibly Blanc, b. 1860), Joseph Wilfrid Sidney Blanc (b. 1862), Mary Frances...
Dates: circa 1841-1876

LeRoy L. Shutes collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1185
Scope and Contents This collection contains a typewritten copy of "Diary - Eight Hundred Miles -Twenty Six Days - Covered Wagon - 1862 - Wyandott County, Ohio - Carroll County, Iowa" by Mary Alice Shutes made and copyrighted in 1967 from a copy created by Julia Curtis, Mary Alice Shutes Mallory's daughter, under the supervision of her mother. Mary Alice Shutes Mallory kept the diary, along with her stepmother, Ann, while the family traveled from Ohio to Iowa in 1862. The collection also includes copies of "Stack...
Dates: 1967-1971

Lucy Morerod Detraz collection

 Collection — Folder S0357
Identifier: S0357
Scope and Contents This collection includes an undated 11-page handwritten biography about Lucy Morerod Detraz by her niece or nephew in Indiana regarding Detraz and the history of Vevay, Switzerland Couny, Indiana.
Dates: circa 1903-1916

Madison County Native American murders statement of expenditures

 Collection — Folder OB022
Identifier: OB022
Scope and Contents This collection includes a December 21, 1824 statement of expenditures written and signed by Indian Agent John Johnston regarding the costs "arising out of the murder of nine friendly Indians in Madison County Indiana by sundry Citizens of the United States in March 1823." This opening statement on the document uses the incorrect date of 1823 instead of 1824. The document is an itemization of a number of different expenses, including the coroner's inquest fees; the cost of guarding the...
Dates: 1824, 1873

Marion County, Indiana history drawing prints

 Collection — Folder S2571
Identifier: S2571
Scope and Contents This collection includes 35 undated prints of drawings put from an unknown artist depicting scenes and places in the Indianapolis and Marion County history, which are as follows:1. Two pioneer hunters where Fall Creek meets White River (1800s) 2. Four riders on horses with covered wagon on trail (mid-1800s) 3. Surveying the new state capitol (1820) 4. Four men meeting about planning of Indianapolis (1820-1821) 5. Governor Jennings and wife on horseback going to Washington, D.C....
Dates: undated

Mary J. Aborn collection

 Collection
Identifier: L001
Scope and Contents The largest part of the collection consists of papers of Ebenezer F. Lucas (1807-1871), which include his correspondence regarding the operation of the Wabash and Erie Canal; correspondence, surveys, and legal documents relating to his business and land interests in Warren County, Indiana; and papers relating to the 1860 census. The collection also includes Mary J. Aborn’s correspondence and writings in relation to early Warren County history and the removal of Native Americans from...
Dates: 1815-1907

Mary Louise Sator family collection

 Collection
Identifier: L488
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, papers, diaries, genealogical research materials, books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs--including cartes de visite, tintypes, and negatives--35mm slides, and realia from Mary Louise Sator, Mary Cleason O'Hair, and O'Hair, Brady, and Sator families in the Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the United States, ranging from 1827 to 1994, and undated, relating to family life and homes, interests, careers, and family history pertaining to the O'Hair,...
Dates: 1870-1995

Mrs. Emery G. Bounell papers

 Collection — Folder S144
Identifier: S0144
Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed, signed document from Mary Jane Bounell in Indiana, written during the war years, regarding pioneer life in Hillsboro and Cain Township, Fountain County, Indiana.
Dates: 1943?

Peter Shaffer letter

 Collection — Folder S1761
Identifier: S1761
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter written by Peter Shaffer on January 17, 1858 and sent to John and Mary Smith of Vandalia, Owen County, Indiana. In the letter he mentions that their "dear sister Eve Ann departed this life and died last October 13th."
Dates: 1858/01/17