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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

Albert Gall papers

 Collection
Identifier: L272
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, receipts, deeds, financial papers, photographs, advertising cards, ephemera, a diary, account books, speeches, and legal, insurance, and patent documents from Albert Gall in Indianapolis, Indiana, California, Indiana, and the United States, ranging from 1861 to 1905 and undated, regarding Gall's daily life, business, politics, family, and social life.
Dates: 1861-1905, undated

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

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

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

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

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

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