Farmers -- Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Miller family store account book
Collection — Volume V229
Identifier: V229
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one account book created by the Miller family in Falmouth, Indiana ranging from 1891 to 1895. It includes sales and trades done between the family and famers in the town and childhood drawings and writing by Herschel E. Miller.
Dates:
1891-1895
Oliver P. Davis family correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3478
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostats of correspondence of Oliver P. (O.P.) Davis and his family. The correspondence from 1846 to 1861 includes letters written by Davis to his wife Eliza during his travels for business and while he was in Indianapolis during the Indiana Constitution Convention and his service in the Indiana Senate; three letters from Congressman Edward W. McGaughey; and letters sent by Davis to the Oldridge family. The correspondence from 1864 to 1868 conisists of...
Dates:
1846-1899, circa 1927
Pepper family photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP138
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs taken by Kate Reifel Pepper and others from Franklin County, Indiana in ranging from circa 1914 to circa 1915 regarding the Pepper and Reifel families, bridge building, farming, and Peppertown, Indiana.
Dates:
circa 1914-circa 1915
Richard D. Heller collection
Collection — Folder S629
Identifier: S0629
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of William Miesse's papers dating from 1842 to 1850 and includes letters written to Miesse, bills and receipts, and handwritten directions on a "cure for ague". There is also a sheriff's sale notification with regard to the case of Sarah Bell v. Benjamin Blossom from July of 1870. Also included are photocopies of Judge Vaughan's pocket ledger with entries dating from 1850 to 1856.
Dates:
1842-1870
Romena O. Elder collection
Collection
Identifier: L050
Scope and Contents
The collection consists principally of account books and financial records of the Indianapolis jewelry store she owned and the Greenwood property managed by Romena Elder. The collection also contains personal papers and family accounts. Included are papers and accounts of Alexander M. Hannah (1821–1895), a farmer who resided in Marion County, and letters of Ingram Fletcher regarding land speculation in the Orlando, Florida area (1884–1888).
Dates:
1857-1942
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Romena O. Elder collection
The Hoosier Farmer Indiana Sesquicentennial Farm collection
Collection — Folder S1518
Identifier: S1518
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of correspondence and completed forms received by the editors of The Hoosier Farmer regarding their 1966 request for information about Indiana farms that had been owned by a single family for at least 150 years.
Dates:
1966
Thomas H. Trueblood letters
Collection — Folder S1323
Identifier: S1323
Scope and Contents
This collection has five letters with three envelopes. The letters are addressed to Thomas H. Trueblood, who was a Quaker, living in Washington County, Indiana. The first letter from D. J. Banta, dated December 18, 1885, is about farming, economic conditions, the government, and the temperance movement. He mentions Thomas A. Hendricks and the Democratic administration. The next letter is typed on onion skin paper with the letterhead: Morrison, Plummber and Company, Wholesale Druggists, Chicago,...
Dates:
1885-1888
William Denise letter
Collection — Folder S2413
Identifier: S2413
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one letter from William H. Van Dor[en] of Laporte to William
Denise in Charleston, Montgomery County, New York. The letter, written on July 28,
1839, discusses a recent visit between the two in New York and Dor[en]’s good
prospects for the harvest.
Dates:
1839/07/28
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William Denise letter
William Marion Shearer account book
Collection — Volume V250
Identifier: V250
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an account book from WIlliam Marion Shearer in Indiana ranging from 1876 to 1909 regarding his work as a farmer and laborer.
Dates:
1876-1909
William Wilson diaries
Collection
Identifier: V156
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 16 volumes containing the diaries of William Wilson of Clinton County, Indiana. Ranging from 1880 to 1920, the diary entries include descriptions of farm life, social activities, and economic conditions along with personal finance notations and copies of affidavits regarding his disablity from his service in the Civil War. The first volume was originally a ledger used in 1859 and Wilson's first diary entry on December 29, 1880 mentions that he went to visit Sam Holiday...
Dates:
1859-1920
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William Wilson diaries
