Indiana -- Social life and customs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Cordes letters
Collection — Folder S2055
Identifier: S2055
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of letters sent to Albert Cordes from 1893-1896 by family members in southern Indiana and other cities nearby. Correspondents primarily wrote about family and daily life.
Dates:
1893-1896
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Albert Cordes letters
Albert Gall papers
Collection
Identifier: L272
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from Albert Gall in California, Indiana, and elsewhere in the U.S.; legal, insurance and patent documents, financial papers; photographs; freemason materials and a biographical sketch of Alois D. Gall ranging from 1861 to 1905 regarding family and business matters and social organizations.
Dates:
1865-1905, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Albert Gall papers
Amos Clark Wilkinson diary
Collection — Folder S3034
Identifier: S3034
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed transcript of a diary written by Amos Clark Wilkinson in Posey County, Indiana ranging from 1861 to 1871 regarding daily life as a farmer. The diary was transcribed out by Gloria M. Cox in 1985.
Dates:
1861-1871
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Amos Clark Wilkinson diary
Anna Dean Taylor album
Collection — Volume V164
Identifier: V164
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one "forget-me-not" album created from 1861-1872 around Richmond, Indiana. It contains autographs, notes, and poems.
Dates:
1861-1872
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Anna Dean Taylor album
Caddie Dodson collection
Collection — Folder S2803
Identifier: S2803
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, announcements, calling cards, clippings, and other ephemeral materials dating from 1864 to 1898; some items are undated.
Dates:
1864-1898
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Caddie Dodson collection
Chamness family letters
Collection — Folder S2622
Identifier: S2622
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two letters written by members of the Chamness family in Indiana to the Dixon family in North Carolina dated 1847 and 1850. One letter has a typewritten transcription.
Dates:
1847-1850
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Chamness family letters
Cora Mack Brown family papers
Collection
Identifier: L446
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, hair, postcards, programs, and invitations from Cora Mack Brown, her family and friends, and organizations such as the Order of the Eastern Star, the Methodist Church, and the Masonic Lodge in Milton, Indiana as well as in Illinois and Ohio ranging from 1860 to 1927 regarding local activities in Milton, Indiana, the organizations mentioned, and the Mack and Brown families.
Dates:
1860-1927
Earla Eggert memory book
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: V470
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a scrapbook created by Earla Eggert in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1923. It contains signatures, notes, and poems from her classmates at Manual Technical High School and photographs of herself and friends.
Dates:
1923
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Earla Eggert memory book
Elmer E. Elliott personal narrative
Collection — Folder S2419
Identifier: S2419
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a mimographed copy of "A Hog Drive to Evansville, 1879," a narrative by Elmer E. Elliott of his experience helping drive a herd of 140 hogs from New Harmony, Indiana to Evansville when he was fourteen years old. Elliott's account was transcribed from a magnetic tape recording of an interview conducted at his home in New Harmony on December 28, 1959. The typewritten transcription was completed in 1960 by Elliott A. Riggs for the Ohio Valley Folk Research Project of the...
Dates:
1959-1960
Florence Heywood collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2476
Scope and Contents
This collection includes four journals used by Florence Heywood to record her daily activities from March 1893 to November 1895 while attending the Classical School for Girls in Indianapolis, her composition book from circa 1894, the undated poem, "O'er the Sea," and the undated composition, "The Visit of an Unsophisticated Traveller to Sicily and Egypt."This collection also includes catalogs from the Classical School for Girls for the years 1883/84, 1885/86, 1886/87, 1888/89,...
Dates:
1883-1903, undated
