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Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Jones Hardware Company advertising ink blotter

 Collection — Folder S2268
Identifier: S2268
Scope and Contents This collection includes one unused advertising ink blotter from the Jones Hardware Company of Richmond, Indiana. Printed on the front of the blotter are calendars for June-August 1924 and lists various items sold by the company. On the reverse side is absorbent blotting paper.
Dates: 1924

Kosciusko County collection

 Collection — Folder S1682-01
Identifier: S1682
Scope and Contents The collection contains two items from Kosciusko County, Indiana, comprising a small advertising card for an attorney and land agent, James H. Carpenter, in Warsaw, Indiana and a two-page, typed letter from George A. Nye, a math teacher from Warsaw, Indiana to Christopher Coleman, the Indiana State Library director, circa 1917-1918, regarding the position offerred to Nye. The letter also lists the articles he wrote, mostly regarding Warsaw, in the preceding 25 years and makes mention of the...
Dates: circa 1870s-1918

LaGrange County collection

 Collection — Folder S1683-01
Identifier: S1683
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three items from LaGrange County, Indiana, including an undated advertising card for the Lima Manufacturing Company's Queen windmill in Lima, Indiana (currently Howe); a short, typed history of the LaGrange courthouse of 1843 and an account of a gavel made of the wood from the 1843 courthouse, which the LaGrange de Lafayette chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) returned to LaGrange County, after 1923; and a seven-page, typed narrative by Dan Wisel...
Dates: 1843-1934

Lincoln National Life Insurance Company collection

 Collection — Folder B004
Identifier: B004
Scope and Contents This collection contains reproductions of Lincoln's Gettysburg address and image used for advertising in the 1930s.
Dates: circa 1930

M. and W. Drugs advertisement card

 Collection — Folder S1643
Identifier: S1643
Scope and Contents This collection contains an advertising card for M. and W. Drugs in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1959 to 1960.
Dates: 1959-1960

Marion County, Indiana collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2365
Scope and Contents This collection contains various items related to Marion County, Indiana ranging from 1867 to 1990. The collection is organized into several categories Folder 1 includes churches and religion, colleges and institutions, government buildings, Indianapolis buildings, and manufacturing. Folder 2 contains advertisements and letterheads, clubs and organizations, Foster Hall, Indianapolis homes, Indianapolis scenes, and miscellaneous. Much of the collection consists of prints, advertisements and...
Dates: 1867-1990

Mildred Dixon Harrod collection

 Collection — Folder S2901
Identifier: S2901
Scope and Contents The collection includes 30 items, including original patent medicine advertisements, including catarrhal symptoms, for miscellaneous health care issues (circa 1884-1926), miscellaneous correspondence to Mildred Dixon Harrod, and one advertisement for Epworth Concert Grand pianos (undated).
Dates: 1884-1926

Nancy Hovarter papers

 Collection
Identifier: S0685
Scope and Contents This collection includes a postcard and a letter sent to Nancy Hovarter in Angola, Indiana from her daughter Hattie Weirich in Toledo, Ohio on August 12, 1924, and from her granddaughter Ruth and family in Glenwood, Iowa on Augutst 24, 1931, respectively concerning travel, unemployment, farming, drought, and the swarm of grasshoppers which devastated Midwestern crops in 1931. There is also a letter to Hattie Weirich in Kendallville, Indiana from her sister Lydia in Orland, Indiana on July 15,...
Dates: 1884-1931

Orange County, Indiana collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2095
Scope and Contents This collection contains a variety of items related to Orange County, Indiana. Folder 1 includes a circa 1887 French Lick Springs Hotel advertisement card; two copies of a paper on the hills and waters of Orange County given by Anna Maris at the Indiana Library Association convention at French Lick in October 1923; two 1926 letters sent to Mrs. Noble Cox of Indianapolis and written by Jesse M. Trinkle of Paoli regarding a postcard depicting a stagecoach at the old turnpike toll gate and a copy...
Dates: circa 1887-1974

Putnam County collection

 Collection — Folder S1688
Identifier: S1688
Scope and Contents The collection includes miscellaneous historical papers and documents of Putnam County, Indiana, including advertising cards from Russelville and Greencastle, Indiana; manuscripts and narratives about courthouses, African-American citizens in Greencastle, and various county personalities; handwritten legal documents, including land records, indentures, warrants, and estate papers (1831-1886); and a January 27, 1963 letter from Mrs. John R. Stevens to Mr. Guthrie regarding an article about a...
Dates: 1831-1886