Cumberland Road
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin S. Parker papers
Collection
Identifier: L123
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Benjamin S. Parker’s correspondence and writings, including correspondence E. B. Heiney and publishers about Poets and Poetry of Indiana; correspondence regarding Parker’s poetry, his newspaper work, and requests for advice on writing. Also included is correspondence regarding Republican Party politics, James Whitcomb Riley, and family matters. The collections also contains Parker’s writings including the subjects of the National Road,...
Dates:
1790-1923
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Benjamin S. Parker papers
Bernhard Knollenberg collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1330
Scope and Contents
This collection includes "The National Road across Wayne County" by Thomas B. Searight, 1894, 2 copies; a letter to Dr. Bernhard Knollenberg dated April 22, 1942, from the Library of Congress; maps of Whitewater Valley Country by Harry O. Garman, 1942; a note from Mr. Hill to Bernhardt dated August 6, 1942; an article entitled "Letter Written by Mr. Johann Wolfgang Schreyer" edited by Donald F. Carmony, pp. 283-306, Indiana Magazine of History, September 1944; a photostat of a map showing...
Dates:
1796, 1894-1942
Christian Schrader collection
Collection
Identifier: L573
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, pencil drawings, negatives, 35mm slides, and family photographs from Christian Schrader in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1842 to 1987, regarding Schrader’s family, friends, and early Indianapolis. Schrader includes rough dates for the subjects he depicts in the drawings, but many of them were created from his recollections later in life. There are also oversize drawings (OBE017).Negatives are available for most of the drawings. In...
Dates:
1842-1987
Cumberland Road collection
Collection
Identifier: S1243
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostats of receipts for services rendered for Cumberland
Road in Indiana.
Dates:
1838
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Cumberland Road collection
Cumberland Road papers
Collection — Folder B075
Identifier: B075
Scope and Contents
This collection includes receipts for services on August 31, 1838 and throughout 1838.
Dates:
1838
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cumberland Road papers
Nancy Johnson collection
Collection
Identifier: L764
Scope and Contents
This collection includes programs, pamphlets, and other items collected by Nancy Johnson from events she attended and from the Indiana Statehouse Tour Office where her husband Jim volunteered, ranging from 1983 to 2020 and undated. Most of the events, which included government swearing-in and award ceremonies, services, conferences, meetings, and celebrations for historic events and holidays, took place at the Indiana Statehouse. There are also materials about the Indiana Supreme Court and...
Dates:
1983-2020, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Nancy Johnson collection
National Road Association collection
Collection — Folder S3342
Identifier: S3342
Scope and Contents
This collection includes minutes from the Board of Directors' meetings, brochures about the National Road, agendas of annual meetings, a letter from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to the Indiana Department of Commerce, and biographies of new Association Board nominees in 2008.
Dates:
2001-2008
National Road legislation collection
Collection — Folder S3007
Identifier: S3007
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Indiana General Assembly documentation from the 27th Congress in 1842 and the 28th Congress in 1844 regarding the financing of the National Road (also known as the Cumbersland Road). Each document requests money for the National Road. The three items are: (1) January 7, 1842, Doc. No. 35, Cumberland Road Memorial from the Legislature of Indiana; (2) February 19, 1844, Doc. No. 129, Bridges on the Cumberland Road, Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of Indiana; and...
Dates:
1842 & 1844
Richmond, Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S3108
Identifier: S3108
Scope and Contents
The collection is an assortment of documents dated from 1888 and 1962 to 1967, relating to Richmond, Indiana community and cultural organizations. Organizations represented include the Richmond Civic Theatre, the Art Association of Richmond, Richmond Parks Club, the Tax Research Bureau of the Richmond Board of Realtors, Jaycees of Richmond, Old Settlers, American Friends Service Committee, Hayes Regional Arboretum, Society for the Preservation and Use of Resources, and Richmond's Committee of...
Dates:
1888, 1962-1967
