Brown County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
309th Observation Squad, United States Air Corps Reserve, Indiana aerial photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P069
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white aerial photogrographs from 309th Observation Squadron of the United States Air Corps Reserve in Indiana ranging from 1931 to 1936 regarding counties and Civilian Conservation Corps company sites around the state. Photographs are stamped with the squadron's information and include the pilot's name and the date.
Dates:
1931-1936
Alice "Allie" Ferguson collection
Collection — Folder S2990
Identifier: S2990
Scope and Contents
This 13-page paper entitled "Allie Ferguson of Brown County" was written by Katharine McAfee Parker (Mrs. Albert G. Parker, Jr.) of Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana. She wrote a biography of Alice "Allie" Lucas as well as her sister Malissa, called "Aunt Mollie." Their father was a farmer and "a hauler of loads" in Brown County, where the sisters lived all their lives. Malissa never married. Allie married William Ferguson and had five children. Twins died as infants. In 1900, the census taker...
Dates:
1856-1931
Brown County collection
Collection — Folder S1650
Identifier: S1650
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a note card with Lottie Lyons Grow's etching of Grassy Creek in Brown County, Indiana printed on the front and a note written inside by Grow to a Mrs. Macdonald dated October 10, 1977. The collection also includes several undated items related to Brown County: a promotional card printed by the Community Club of Nashville with a picture of the "Old Log Jail"; a pamphlet with the poem "In Brown County" by Maude Elizabeth Pate, photographs by Frank M. Hohenberger, and...
Dates:
1977, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Brown County collection
Camp Atterbury World War II photograph collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P003
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 291 black and white, 3 x 5-inch photographic prints depicting life at Camp Atterbury, Indiana in the midst of World War II. Three of the images have copies. The photographs were taken by William J. Moriarty, Sr., a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, as part of his duties for the U.S. Signal Corps while he was stationed there in 1943. The images demonstrate the daily activities of camp life and training, as well as social events, and depict racial...
Dates:
1943
Christmas cards collection
Collection — Folder 2100
Identifier: S2100
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Christmas cards from various people in Indiana ranging from 1886 to 1939 regarding the Christmas season, New Year, Christianity, as well as "General Jackson's Holiday Season 1814-1815," and "General Washington's Christmas 1776" regarding their wartime accounts.
Dates:
1886-1939
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Christmas cards collection
Edgar J. Thickstun collection
Collection — Folder S2253
Identifier: S2253
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of an April 23, 1892 letter sent to E. (Edgar) J. Thickstun of Belmont, Indiana from The Patentees' Union of Indianapolis, Indiana in response to a letter they received from Thickstun about selling his patent; a handwritten advertisement for the sale of his patent from circa 1893; and an unused supplementary agreement from the American Patent Agency of Cincinnati, Ohio from January 1894 that includes the signature of the manager, O.J. Bailey. ...
Dates:
1857-1894
Garry Petersen, Irvington Urban Forestry collection
Collection
Identifier: L503
Scope and Contents
This collection includes posters from artists and collected by Garry Petersen in Indiana and elsewhere ranging from 1984 to 1992 regarding Arbor Day, history in Franklin, Indiana, and trees. There is also a plaque for the collection with a quote (circa 2017).
Dates:
circa 1984-1992, undated
Georgetown Presbyterian Church and Logansport Presbyterian collection
Collection
Identifier: L192
Scope and Contents
The collection includes four volumes, two each from the Georgetown Presbyterian Church and the Logansport Presbyterian Church, dated from 1829 to 1930. The volumes provide information on memberships, administrative activities, and related events. The Logansport record book (1829-1881) also provides some financial information about the church. Miscellaneous items in the collection include a receipt, letters, research notes, and a primary memory verse, dating from 1924 to 1935 and undated.
Dates:
1829-1935
Indiana Department of Natural Resources photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P038
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the photographs from Indiana Department of Natural Resources in Indiana from 1967 and undated regarding state parks, nature sites and recreation areas, historic sites, landmarks, memorials, museums, and buildings around Indiana.
Dates:
1967, undated
Indiana nature photographic slides
Collection — Folder SP039
Identifier: SP039
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 35mm slides of nature scenes in Indiana circa 1950s, including rivers, waterfalls, caves, and state parks. These slides are dupllicates of the collection Indiana nature scenes lantern slides (P021).
Dates:
circa 1950
