Irvington (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Agnes McCulloch Hanna photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP019
Identifier: SP019
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from Agnes McCulloch Hanna in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1929 to 1930, regarding houses of prominent residents, club houses, and architcure constructed in the mid- and late 19th century in present-day Indianapolis neighborhoods, including the Old Northside, Near North, St. Joseph, Irvington, Fletcher Place, and Bates-Hendricks.
Dates:
1929-1930, undated
C. E. Hollenbeck papers
Collection — Folder S669
Identifier: S0669
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an autographed, signed letter from C.E. Hollenbeck in Irvington, Indiana on 1877/11/30 regarding bond information with a response from Jhimas [?].
Dates:
1877/11/20
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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C. E. Hollenbeck papers
Claude Mason photograph album
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P028
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photograph album with snapshots from Claude Mason in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1901 to 1914 and undated regarding his day-to-day life, family, friends, holidays, recreational activities, and various sites concerning his work as a civil engineer. There is also an envelope with loose photographs from the album.
Dates:
1901-1914, undated
Donald D. Dick architectural collection
Collection
Identifier: L723
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 52 architectural drawings from Donald D. Dick in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1961-1987.
Dates:
1961-1987
Edgar C. Leisure collection
Collection
Identifier: L561
Scope and Contents
This collection largely contains letters from Captain Edgar C. Leisure to his wife, Elsie. It also has letters from Calvin Kummer to his sister, Elsie. A few letters from and to other individuals are also included. This collection also has newspaper clippings, telegrams, cards, and other various papers that were mailed between Edgar and Elsie.
Dates:
1942-1945
Elias N. Shimer collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0815
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several legal documents of Elias N. Shimer ranging from 1831 to 1844. The documents include Shimer's deed for the purchase of one and a half acres south of the Brookville Road from Joshua Stevens (December 24, 1831); his Marion County Justice of the Peace commission certificate signed by Governor Noah Noble (December 6, 1837); a deed between Edward White and Abraham Jones for eighty acres in Marion County (October 30, 1833), and the indenture transferring the eighty...
Dates:
1831-1876
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Elias N. Shimer collection
Evans W. Cottman manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: L038
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three autobiographical typescripts of Evans W. Cottman, two of which were later published. Cottman's "Green Cross Doctuh" was published in 1963 as "Out Island Doctor", and his work, "Early Twentieth Century Irvington" was published as "Oh Little Town of Irvington" in 1990.
Dates:
1963-1973
Florence Lupton Smith collection
Collection — Folder S1202
Identifier: S1202
Scope and Contents
This 19-page typed article is about Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard (1868-1930), creator of Abe Martin, by Florence Lupton Smith, whose parents bought the Hubbard house in 1928. That house was located on a high hill bounded by Pleasant Run Parkway, New York Street, and Emerson Avenue. Kin and his wife Josephine Jackson moved there in 1909 with son Tom (born 1907) and baby daughter Virginia. Two other sons died in 1919 in a car accident at age one, and in 1921 at birth. Florence wrote about Kin's...
Dates:
1974
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
George W. Julian collection
Collection
Identifier: L081
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the correspondence is that of George W. Julian and his wife, Laura Giddings Julian, and with his children, Grace and Paul, while he was serving in Congress, working as an attorney in Washington, D.C., and on speaking tours. In his letters with Laura, he discusses questions before Congress. Additional correspondence includes letters to Laura from her father, Joshua R. Giddings, written while he was serving in Congress or as U.S. consul general to Canada in Montreal (1861-1864);...
Dates:
1789-1940, bulk 1789-1902
