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Calling cards

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Albert H. Vestal collection

 Collection
Identifier: L352
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection comprises invitations, programs, and announcements for social events in Washington, D.C. Other items include clippings related to Albert H. Vestal’s work in the U.S. Congress; his diary and other materials from his trip to California and Alaska (1927); speeches; a record of assistance given to World War I veterans and their families in his congressional district; and a transcript of headlines made by Vestal during 1917.
Dates: 1899-1932, bulk 1917-1932

Aurelius M. Willoughby collection

 Collection
Identifier: L303
Scope and Contents The collection consists of Civil War diaries from Aurelius Willoughby in the United States ranging from 1861 to 1865, regarding his military service. Also included are discharge papers, memorabilia, and personal business papers dating from 1864 to 1917 and a manuscript history of Company H, 39th Indiana with photographs, circa 1910. The collection also includes 2 tintypes of Aurelius Willoughby and 32 cartes-de-visite depicting landmarks in Washington D.C., Georgia, and Niagra Falls, as well as...
Dates: 1861-1950

Calling cards collection

 Collection
Identifier: S2099
Scope and Contents This collection includes calling cards from Chas. A. Wilder, Charles Levi, Gen. John Morton, Will F. Hasson, Tom L. Yandes, and Mrs. J.H. McKerman in Indiana ranging from 1873 to 1882 regarding New Years.
Dates: 1873-1882

Flora Gardiner Kling collection

 Collection
Identifier: L344
Scope and Contents The collection includes letters, postcards, photographs, bookplates, ephemera, and scrapbooks received, collected, and compiled by Flora Gardiner Kling in Mount Vernon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1881 to 1938, undated, regarding her hobby collecting bookplates, which included soliciting bookplates from various universities, libraries, authors, poets, illustrators, actors, inventors, scientists, politicans, musicians, performers, and private citizens, as well as corresponding...
Dates: 1881-1938

Harriet Greathouse Frenzel photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P051
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photograph album containing photographs with a few clippings, children's drawings, and cards, as well four folders of loose photographs, papers, photograph album pages, and pages from a scrapbook from Harriet Stanhope Frenzel and her family in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1908 to 1947, regarding baby and childhood pictures of Frenzel, her children, Suzanne Rebeyre, Joan Greathouse, and John Peter III, alone and with family members. There are also snapshots of...
Dates: 1908-1947

Hibben family papers

 Collection
Identifier: L069
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, invitations and calling cards, accounts, stamps, newspaper clippings, membership cards, legal documents, and other papers, as well as photographs, negatives, lantern slides, artwork, textiles, and realia from members of the Hibben and Ketcham families in Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, and Europe ranging from circa 1840 to 1937 regarding family, military, legal, and social matters. Much of the early correspondence belonged to Sarah...
Dates: circa 1840-1937

Indianapolis Bar Association collection

 Collection — Folder S1596
Identifier: S1596
Scope and Contents There are two cards in this collection. One is a calling card for the Indianapolis Bar Association, Citizens National Bank, 11-13 East Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1878-1879. The officers printed on the card are: Napoleon B. Taylor, President; John T. Dye, Vice President; and John A. Henry, Secretary.

The second item is larger and is a blank application for membership card. The annual dues printed on the card were $5.00.
Dates: 1878

Lola Elmore collection

 Collection — Folder S3242
Identifier: S3242
Scope and Contents This collection consists of early childhood material from the life of Lola Elmore.
Dates: 1915-1921

Mary Adaline Denny collection

 Collection — Folder S2567
Identifier: S2567
Scope and Contents This collection includes Sunday School cards, picture advertisement cards, Victorian calling cards and calling cards from 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (circa 1855 to 1900). The cards were originally glued in a scrapbook and the collection includes the front cover of the book with a note written by Miss Denny: "The Sunday School Cards in this book were saved by me, beginning with the first one I ever received, when about 6 years, 1855." Most of the picture advertisement cards are glued...
Dates: circa 1855-1900

May Wright Sewall collection

 Collection — Folder S1759
Identifier: S1759
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, clippings, and a calling card from May Wright Sewall in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1902 to 1931 regarding speaking engagements and the Propylaeum.
Dates: 1902-1931