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Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 189 Collections and/or Records:

Riley Hospital collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3306
Scope and Contents This collection contains program booklets, invitations, periodicals, photographs, and other materials related to Riley Hospital in Indianapolis dating from 1926 to 1936.

There is also an oversize collection (OBC108) and 5 scrapbooks (V433).
Dates: 1926-1936

Robert C. Baltzell collection

 Collection
Identifier: L008
Scope and Contents The collection includes the contents of four scrapbooks documenting Baltzell’s career, particularly as a federal judge presiding over murder, bootlegging, and other cases, including the murder trial of George W. Barrett for killing an FBI agent (1935-1936). Also included is a notebook listing his cases with names of jurors and trial outcomes (1932-1935).
Dates: 1888-1930; bulk 1925-1936

Robert C. Enos scrapbook

 Collection — Folder S2445
Identifier: S2445
Scope and Contents This collection contains a scrapbook kept by Robert C. Enos while living at the Indiana State Soldiers’ Home in Lafayette, Indiana. The scrapbook has newspaper clipping ranging from 1898 to 1907 and undated regarding a variety of topics, including the population growth of Indiana and the United States, the origin of place names, the business center of Indianapolis during the 1850s and 1860s, and the Soldiers' Home. A number of the clippings are related to the Civil War and the 11th Indiana...
Dates: 1864-1907, undated

Robert C. Hubbard collection

 Collection
Identifier: L078
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter, certificate, programs, and scrapbook of Robert C. Hubbard regarding Culver Military Academy, ranging from 1916 to 1919. The scrapbook contains photographs, school grade books, school newspapers, and Hubbard's grade reports.
Dates: 1916-1919

Robert J. Elvin scrapbook on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad

 Collection — Box L715
Identifier: L715
Scope and Contents This collection includes Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad passenger and freight totals from June 1840-May 1841 and expenditures from March 30, 1842-September 1842. Notably, plats of a proposed railroad depot in Indianapolis, Indiana by engineers A.W. Morris and T.A. Morris dating from March 25, 1825 are included as well as an 1846 survey of railroad approaches to Indianapolis. A Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad broadside with route information, circulars,...
Dates: 1842-1893

Robert M. Taylor, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: L469
Scope and Contents The collection contains personal correspondence of various family members, receipts related to properties the Y.W.C.A. owned and operated; a genealogical sketch of the Taylor family’s history, minutes of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society meetings, various broadsides, a single poll book from 1930 that lists voters and their political affiliation, and papers and scrapbooks of the Indianapolis branch of the Y.W.C.A.
Dates: 1868-1971

Ruth M. Stine collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2355
Scope and Contents This collection contains several items donated by Ruth Stine, including the ferry book of John Bell of Fountain County, Indiana from 1830; a partial ferry book of Benjamin Freeman from 1830; James M. Howard's cash book for his Perrysville, Indiana shoe store with entries from 1884 to 1887; and a ciphering book containing questions and answers for various mathematical calculations, including for reduction of currencies, interest, the rule of three, and compound proportion. The ciphering book was...
Dates: 1830-1899

Samuel J. Keller papers

 Collection
Identifier: L285
Scope and Contents This collection includes letters from Samuel J. Keller in Bluffton, Indiana, California, and Minnesota; Mexican War and Civil War army camps, as well as business, legal and financial papers; a diary; newspaper clippings; business advertising; postcards; and miscellaneous ranging from 1848 to 1911, regarding family matters, army life and wars.

There is also an appointment for Keller to the 47th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Militia on October 10, 1861.
Dates: 1848-1911

Sarah Carmichael Harrell collection

 Collection
Identifier: L398
Scope and Contents This collection includes newspaper clippings and scrapbooks from Sarah Carmichael Harrell in Indiana ranging from 1825 to 1927 regarding the Columbian Exposition (or otherwise known as the Chicago World's Fair), Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana history, poetry and stories.

There is also a World's Columbian Exposition Commission appointment certificate and letter to Sarah Carmichael Harrell dated March 18, 1891 (OBC147).
Dates: 1825-1927

Shock family scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1179
Scope and Contents This collection contains pages from a scrapbook kept by the Shock family of Henry County, Indiana ranging from 1921 to circa 1970s. The scrapbook pages include photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, and mementos of trips that Lorene Shock's mother, Stella Pierce, collected while traveling during the 1920s. She and a group of friends traveled to a number of cities and historic sites including Washington D.C., New York City, Gettysburg, Philadelphia, and several communities in Indiana. The...
Dates: 1921- circa 1970