Medals
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Bill Ingalls Hoese collection
Collection
Identifier: L420
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from Bill Ingalls Hoese, in England and Canada ranging from 1938 to 1941 regarding flying and world experiences. Also included are sympathy cards and letters, newspapers from the Hoese family and their friends regarding Bill Ingalls Hoese's death, Worthington, Indiana, and World War II. Notable items include a memorial card of Bill Ingalls Hoese's death from the Canadian government, a sympathy card from the Queen at...
Dates:
1929-1944
Claude M. Gray papers
Collection
Identifier: L540
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, military documents, a diary, photographs and postcards, realia, and other papers from Claude M. Gray in Indiana, the United States, and France, ranging from 1910 to 1948, regarding his education at Rose Polytechnic Institute, his service during World War I, and daily life.Military records include telegrams, transport orders, and bulletins, pay record book, tickets, and identification cards, as well as Gray's World War I diary, World War I...
Dates:
1910-1948
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Claude M. Gray papers
George W. Roberts collection
Collection
Identifier: L579
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two Civil War diaries, correspondence, papers, a coffee can, and a spoon belonging to George W. Roberts in Indiana and the United States ranging from circa 1861 to 1944. There are also numerous ribbons, buttons, and badges from Roberts, most from Grand Army of the Republic encampments or posts, as well as numerous 69th Indiana Regiment reunion ribbons (1889-1917, undated); an 1895 Indiana Trustees Association annual meeting ribbon; a 19th Indiana Veteran Volunteers...
Dates:
circa 1861-1944, undated
Henry Ransford medal
Collection — Folder S1736
Identifier: S1736
Scope and Contents
This collection includes official documents and badges from various governmental units in the United
States ranging from 1864/06/12 to 1911/07/1911 regarding war service and pension.
Dates:
1864-1911
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry Ransford medal
Indiana sesquicentennial medal
Collection — Folder S1020
Identifier: S1020
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a medal from 1966 regarding Indiana's sesquicentennial.
Dates:
1966
James J. Crozier collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2060
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various materials pertaining to James J. Crozier's military service in World War II. The items are primarily from 1944 and 1945, including amended material after his death in 1971 and 1972. There are military orders, photographs, medals, and a list of men in the Second Engineer Special Brigade.
Dates:
1944-1972
Johnston family collection
Collection — Folder S3102
Identifier: S3102
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided between items relating to L.S. Ayres and Company and items relating to the Johnston family (1898-1908). The materials relating to the Johnston family (1876-1908) includes a pocket edition of the New Testament (distributed by The Pocket Testament League of Philadelphia), a Cradle Roll certificate from the Sixth Presbyterian Sunday School of Indianapolis, one dedal, two pins, and two commemorative crosses. The medal and the crosses commemorate service in the Spanish...
Dates:
1898-1957
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Johnston family collection
Kenneth Riddle collection
Collection
Identifier: L743
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence sent by Kenneth Riddle from April 1943 to April 1944 to his family in Marion, Indiana while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II; a circa 1943 souvenir postcard packet from Camp Blanding, Florida; telegrams from the War Department regarding Riddle's serious wounding on April 4, 1944 and details related to the return of his remains in 1948; letters sent by family in the spring of 1944 that were returned following his death; a May 1944 letter from...
Dates:
1943-1948, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Kenneth Riddle collection
World War I collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1535
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a variety of items from World War I ranging from 1917 to 1919 and includes typewritten copies of letters sent to Oscar and Rosa Watkins of Indianapolis, Indiana from their son Osric while he served with the 94th Aero Squadron in France; two letters sent to Miss Ida Anderson of the Indianapolis News from Marie M. Burke, a nurse from Vincennes, Indiana who was serving with the Roosevelt Base Hospital Unit No. 15 in France; a letter and the...
Dates:
1917-1919, 1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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World War I collection
