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Pioneers -- Indiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Julia Ainsworth letter

 Collection — Folder S009
Identifier: S0009
Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter written by Julia [Ainsworth] to Desire Gallup on April 4, 1838, regarding the difficulties she is having, living on the frontier in City West, Indiana.
Dates: 1838

L. C. Smith letter

 Collection
Identifier: S1209
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter from L. C. Smith to Simeon Chase in Wayne County, Indiana on December 2, 1818 regarding the county, health of the people, and his salary as a teacher.
Dates: 1818

Lasselle family photographs

 Collection — Folder SP080
Identifier: SP080
Scope and Contents This collection includes carte-de-visite and daguerreotype portrait photographs of the Lasselle family from Fort Wayne, Indiana and New Orleans, as well as unknown places, ranging from circa 1841 to 1876, depicting three of Hyacinth Lasselle's children, Charles, Stanislaus, and Marie Louise, and several descendants--Francis J. Lasselle, Sophia A. (Lasselle) Nettlehurst DeWald, Hannah Nettlehurst, Apolline Julie (possibly Blanc, b. 1860), Joseph Wilfrid Sidney Blanc (b. 1862), Mary Frances...
Dates: circa 1841-1876

Lucy Morerod Detraz collection

 Collection — Folder S0357
Identifier: S0357
Scope and Contents This collection includes an undated 11-page handwritten biography about Lucy Morerod Detraz by her niece or nephew in Indiana regarding Detraz and the history of Vevay, Switzerland Couny, Indiana.
Dates: circa 1903-1916

Mace family letters

 Collection — Folder S1406
Identifier: S1406
Scope and Contents This collection includes eight letters written to and from Macy family members ranging from 1816 to 1826. Mary Hardy Mace wrote five of the letters, including one sent from Ontario (New York?) to Benjamin’s brother Ely at Tewksbury, Massachusetts on November 10, 1816 and four letters sent from Washington (Clark County), Indiana to Benjamin’s parents in Tewksbury (November 3, 1817 and September 10, 1820), Benjamin’s brother Isaac (September 9, 1818), and to her "parents, brothers & sisters"...
Dates: 1816-1826

Marion County, Indiana history drawing prints

 Collection — Folder S2571
Identifier: S2571
Scope and Contents This collection includes 35 undated prints of drawings put from an unknown artist depicting scenes and places in the Indianapolis and Marion County history, which are as follows:1. Two pioneer hunters where Fall Creek meets White River (1800s) 2. Four riders on horses with covered wagon on trail (mid-1800s) 3. Surveying the new state capitol (1820) 4. Four men meeting about planning of Indianapolis (1820-1821) 5. Governor Jennings and wife on horseback going to Washington, D.C....
Dates: undated

Mary J. Aborn collection

 Collection
Identifier: L001
Scope and Contents The largest part of the collection consists of papers of Ebenezer F. Lucas (1807-1871), which include his correspondence regarding the operation of the Wabash and Erie Canal; correspondence, surveys, and legal documents relating to his business and land interests in Warren County, Indiana; and papers relating to the 1860 census. The collection also includes Mary J. Aborn’s correspondence and writings in relation to early Warren County history and the removal of Native Americans from...
Dates: 1815-1907

Patterson Fletcher Luark biographical sketch

 Collection — Folder S0809
Identifier: S0809
Scope and Contents This collection includes an undated, typewritten copy of Patterson Fletcher Luark's autobiographical preface to his journal transcribed from the Northwest collection microfilm owned by the University of Washington, Seattle.
Dates: circa 1814-1901

Peter Shaffer letter

 Collection — Folder S1761
Identifier: S1761
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter written by Peter Shaffer on January 17, 1858 and sent to John and Mary Smith of Vandalia, Owen County, Indiana. In the letter he mentions that their "dear sister Eve Ann departed this life and died last October 13th."
Dates: 1858/01/17

Powell A. Moore photograph collection

 Collection — Folder SP142
Identifier: SP142
Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs from historian Powell A. Moore in Lake County, Indiana ranging from 1883 to 1946 and undated, regarding the cities of Gary and Hammond and other places in Lake County, as well as local industries, such as meat packing and oil refining.
Dates: 1883-1946, undated