Business enterprises -- Indiana -- Indianapolis
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Indianapolis Chain and Stamping Company ledgers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: V191
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three ledgers from the Indianapolis Chain and Stamping Company. The first ledger includes invoices from September 1898-June 1899, the second from July 1899-December 1900, the third from November 1904-March 1905. Supply invoices from Clemens Vonnegut Hardware, Machinery and Tools, Tanner and Sullivan Tinner Suppliers, William B. Binford Engravers, Zaiser-Cathcart Company Seals and Rubber Stamps, as well as Crescent Steel Company can be found within the ledgers among...
Dates:
1898-1904
Indianapolis Public Library Hilton U. Brown Branch oral history transcripts
Collection
Identifier: OH008
Scope and Contents
This collection contains transcripts of oral history interviews with residents of Irvington, once a town in Marion County, and now a neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1978 to 1987. The interviews were conducted primarily by Lois Leamon and others for Indianapolis Public Library, Hilton U. Brown Branch's Irvington Oral History Project. The transcripts include historical information about the town-cum-neighborhood and the people who lived there.
Dates:
1978-1987
James L. Keach papers
Collection — Folder S2312
Identifier: S2312
Scope and Contents
This collection contains legal documents from 1885 related to a lawsuit filed against James L. Keach in the Marion County (Ind.) Superior Court by Ebenezer Edwards and Frederick H. Guhl of Chicago who were seeking payment for two carloads of potatoes ordered by Keach. Keach had paid $50.00 as a down payment, but when the produce arrived in Indianapolis, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad only allowed a partial unloading of one car due to a lack of proper paperwork. By the time...
Dates:
1885-1888
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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James L. Keach papers
John Guedelhoefer Wagon Company advertisements
Collection — Folder OBD047
Identifier: OBD047
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two large advertisements from the John Guedelhoefer Wagon Company in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1880 to 1960 regarding their wagon models.
Dates:
circa 1880-1960
John H. Vajen papers
Collection — Folder S1334
Identifier: S1334
Scope and Contents
There are five items in this collection, including a Quarter Master General account book from April 29, 1861-October 9, 1861; an envelope containing three business cards, one for J. H. Vajen, Hardware Merchant, and two alike for Joseph Curzon, Architect; letter dated July 15, 1961, to "My dear Vajen" from Oliver P. Morton, written from Washington, in which he enclosed "contracts and specifications from the quarter master for horses, wagons, ambulances, too"; a letter dated March 17, 1862, to...
Dates:
1861-1862
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John H. Vajen papers
John Ott papers
Collection — Folder S1034
Identifier: S1034
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal business papers of the Ott family, receipts, price lists and inventories of furniture for the L.W. Ott Manufacturing Company, and a clipping from a German language newspaper ranging from 1864 to 1905. Related materials to this collection include three account books for Ott's furniture company, with one volume also containing his daybook of personal accounts ranging from 1858 to 1907.
Dates:
1864-1905
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Ott papers
John S. Spann and Company collection
Collection — Folder S1588
Identifier: S1588
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a number of receipts issued to the John S. Spann and Company from various Indianapolis service and supply companies ranging from 1880 to 1993. Also included are several receipts made out to H. J. Spann (1893 to 1894) and an Indiana Bicycle Company warranty certificate (circa 1890s).
Dates:
1880-1894
June Cox collection
Collection — Folder S2026
Identifier: S2027
Scope and Contents
This collection is an assortment of items, dated from 1883-1926, possibly used for a speech on oral and family history. The items relate to the Cox and Clark families. Included is a French post card; Professor Paul Sebring of Vincennes University song recital program; two tickets for the 1924 Indiana Democratic State Convention at Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana; a Paramount Artists Service business card; Jeffersonville, Indiana, First Christian Church bulletin; Vincennes University...
Dates:
1883-1926
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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June Cox collection
Leonard Neuerburg collection
Collection — Folder S3121
Identifier: S3121
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises undated items about Leonard Neuerburg’s Indianapolis brickyard including two business cards for Leonard Neuerburg, brick manufacturer; a four-page handwritten description of how brick is made (describing the equipment used, the physical plant with its circular pit, and how the brick was cut from mud and fired); a one-paragraph statement about the organization or brick manufacturers headed by Leonard Neuerburg; and a one-page biographical statement on Leonard Neuerburg...
Dates:
circa 1880-1910
M. and W. Drugs advertisement card
Collection — Folder S1643
Identifier: S1643
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an advertising card for M. and W. Drugs in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1959 to 1960.
Dates:
1959-1960
