Businesspeople -- Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Ewing family collection
Collection
Identifier: L323
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and...
Dates:
1818-1889
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ewing family collection
Frank K. Sawyer Indianapolis businesses collection
Collection — Folder S2703
Identifier: S2703
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an assortment of approximately 415 items collected by Frank K. Sawyer in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1854 to 1905, including correspondence, advertisements, flyers, brochures, bills, accounts, receipts, financial statements, invoices, and notes. Some receipts are handwritten on scraps of paper, while others are making use of printed business forms which display distinctive letterheads. Most of these receipts are mounted to the pages of a scrapbook and are often...
Dates:
1854-1905
Frank Pusey collection
Collection — Folder S3126
Identifier: S3126
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters, inter-office memos, a business card, a brochure of introduction of a newly appointed employee, a map of sales districts, photographs, clippings, part of a trade magazine, a good luck card, and place mat with signatures from Frank Pusey in Indianapolis ranging from 1943 to 1967, concerning his employment at the Allison Division of General Motors, the Pure Oil Company in Indianapolis, and E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company Incorporated.
Dates:
1943-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Frank Pusey collection
Frank W. Olin collection
Collection
Identifier: L301
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, circulars, reports, papers, and diaries from Frank W. Olin in Indianapolis and Peru, Indiana ranging from 1833 to 1941, and undated regarding his life, business, and activities. Included in the documents are insurance and other business papers, including papers related to the Indiana Association of Life Underwriters (1908). There are also political papers, many relating to the Republican Party in Indianapolis (1900s-1910s) and the Citizen's Non-Partisan...
Dates:
1833-1941, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Frank W. Olin collection
George W. Ewing letters
Collection — Folder S1825
Identifier: S1825
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence sent by George Washington Ewing to Byrum D. Miner of Fort Wayne, Indiana regarding the sale of furs and skins, William G. Ewing's estate, and other legal matters (1855-1856). The collection also includes a November 29, 1849 bill from Brown's Hotel in Washington, D.C. and three letters sent by Lucinda Smith of Evansville, Indiana to Ewing and Miner regarding the collection of rent from the government for cattle and stables kept on property presumably owned...
Dates:
1849-1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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George W. Ewing letters
George Washington Cross collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0324
Scope and Contents
The majority of the items in this collection are small pieces of paper regarding receipts and other financial matters from 1831 to 1857. There are also two small account books of a laundress from 1851 to 1860. The oldest document is a survey of land belonging to Addison Cross in Ross County, Ohio, in 1821. Two documents relate to business matters of a man named Sharon Case.
Dates:
1821-1868
Gibson Teas account book
Collection — Folder S1290
Identifier: S1290
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a transcription of an account book from Gibson Teas in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana rainging from 1853 to 1856, regarding the activities and correspondence of his business of broom and wood tool manufacturing. The account book was transcribed by R. A. Stubbs of Long Lake, Minnesota.
Dates:
1853-1856
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Gibson Teas account book
H. F. C. early Vincennes, Indiana letter
Collection — Folder S3160
Identifier: S3160
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one handwritten, undated letter from a person named H.F.C. to a Mr. Chandlery, both from Vincennes, Indiana regarding a request for a business loan. Among the closing remarks is a statement about the steeple of the Catholic church in Vincennes being nearly completed, meaning the letter can probably be dated to the 1830s.
Dates:
circa 1830
H. H. Woolley collection
Collection — Folder S1861
Identifier: S1861
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a one-page handwritten list of "Names and P.O. address of persons who authorize H.H. Woolley to refer to for Business, Character and Integrity." The men listed include George W. Bender and R.P. Buchanan of the Big 4 Railway, former Indiana Lieutenant Governor Will Cumback, former circuit judge D.A. Myers, former appellate judge Frank E. Gavin, and the following Greensburg businessmen and local politicians: Charles Zoller, W.W. Bonner, L.E. Lathrop, W.W. Hamilton,...
Dates:
circa 1900
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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H. H. Woolley collection
Harry D. Hartley collection
Collection
Identifier: L273
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, papers, pamphlets, clippings, photographs, publications, meeting transcripts, a master's thesis, and a scrapbook from Harry D. Hartley in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1921 to 1951, regarding Hartley's life and interests, including his family property, especially in Kokomo, his proposed book on the contriubtion of Hoosiers to the development of United States history and Western civilization; Arthur E. Morgon and his investigations into the Tennesee...
Dates:
1921-1951
