Frontier and pioneer life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
John Tipton collection
Collection
Identifier: L160
Scope and Contents
The collection consists principally of Tipton’s correspondence and business papers from the period 1810-1839 in Indiana. His correspondence, including retained copies of his outgoing letters, includes letters relating to the operations of the Indiana Militia in the 1810s; and political correspondence regarding the work of the state legislature (1820s-1830s), his senatorial elections (1831, 1832), his appointments to federal office (1831-1839), and local, state, and national issues, particularly...
Dates:
1806-1858
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Tipton collection
Josiah Warren collection
Collection — Folder S1365
Identifier: S1365
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises photostats of handwritten letters from the Warren family in Indiana and Ohio and a marriage certificate for Caroline and Josiah Warren, ranging from 1817 to 1853 regarding family life and news.
Dates:
1817-1853
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Josiah Warren collection
Julia Cooley Altrocchi collection
Collection
Identifier: L245
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers relating to Wolves Against the Moon, including research correspondence and notes, a manuscript of the book, reviews and correspondence with Harold S. Latham and others at the Macmillan Company, the book's publisher, from the author, Julia Cooley Altrocchi, ranging from 1933 to 1958 and undated. Also included are notes and a manuscript on the Fort Dearborn massacre.
Dates:
1933-1958, undated
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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L. C. Smith letter
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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LeRoy L. Shutes collection
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
Mace family letters
Collection — Folder S1406
Identifier: S1406
Scope and Contents
This collection includes eight letters written to and from Macy family members ranging from 1816 to 1826. Mary Hardy Mace wrote five of the letters, including one sent from Ontario (New York?) to Benjamin’s brother Ely at Tewksbury, Massachusetts on November 10, 1816 and four letters sent from Washington (Clark County), Indiana to Benjamin’s parents in Tewksbury (November 3, 1817 and September 10, 1820), Benjamin’s brother Isaac (September 9, 1818), and to her "parents, brothers and sisters" in...
Dates:
1816-1826
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mace family letters
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
