Ephemera
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Indianapolis Sesquicentennial Commission collection
Collection
Identifier: L575
Scope and Contents
The collection contains documents related to all elements of planning the 1971 Indianapolis sesquicentennial, which began several years in advance. Papers include correspondence between commissioners and contractors for the various events and merchandise, proposals and suggestions for events as well as general notes and memos. The bulk of correspondence involves Thomas Kibler, Executive Director of the commission. Additionally, the collection contains information related to...
Dates:
1966-1972
Inez M. Scholl collection
Collection
Identifier: L345
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, cards, invitations, flyers, ephemera, photographs, and news clippings collected or created by Inez M. Scholl in and around Indiana and the United States ranging from 1932 to 1972, regarding the Democratic party in Indiana, the Democratic National Committee, elections and political activity in Indiana. Notable material includes campaign materials for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor Paul V. McNutt, correspondence with Omer Stokes Jackson and...
Dates:
1931-1972
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Inez M. Scholl collection
International Dairy Exposition records
Collection
Identifier: L394
Scope and Contents
This collection includes administrative records, correspondence, financial records, publications, and realia from Chester Parker in Indianapolis ranging from 1947 to 1951 regarding International Dairy Exposition Inc. Notable items include a page listing Wendell L. Willkie's wife as the chairman of the Women's National Advisory Committee in 1950, catalogs of entries for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd annual exposition, ticket passes, stickers, and flags.
Dates:
1947-1951
Irvington collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2173
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a variety of materials, including transcriptions, personal notes, letters, a poll book, a tax table, financial statements, bonds covering public officials, legal agreements, a political platform, a map, and a newspaper clipping, ranging from 1873 to 1970, regarding the town of Irvington, Indiana.Generally, the materials all relate to the civic and political affairs of the town of Irvington, now a neighborhood of Indianapolis. Topics covered include early...
Dates:
1873-1970; 2008-2016
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Irvington collection
J. H. Goldman collection
Collection — Folder S0521
Identifier: S0521
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a certificate issued to Reverend J. H. Goldman on August 3, 1929 to certify that he was an approved “Quarterly Conference Preacher of the Gospel of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.” It also consists of “A Klansman’s Creed" from the Ku Klux Klan. There are notes from a sermon about the role of a “Klans-man.”
Dates:
1929
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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J. H. Goldman collection
Jeffrey L. Huntington collection
Collection
Identifier: L198
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, organization bylaws, announcements, publications, flyers, news-clippings, and pins collected by Jeffrey L. Huntington at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1984 to 1992 regarding the Ball State Gay and Lesbian Alliance, Justice, Inc., Madison/Delaware County AIDS task force, and statewide and national matters relating to gay and lesbian community and AIDS awareness.
Dates:
1984-1992
John M. Conyers ephemera
Collection — Folder S0292
Identifier: S0292
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one sheet of paper, 7” x 9”, with 14 locks of hair, braided and unbraided, tied with colored ribbons presented to John M. Conyers on the day of his induction into Company G, 11th Regiment, on March 29, 1865 during the U.S. Civil War. The names of the women who contributed locks of their hair are handwritten in pencil.
Dates:
1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John M. Conyers ephemera
John M. Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: L596
Scope and Contents
This collection includes booklets, letters, photographs, maps, tintypes, newspaper clippings and realia from John M. Smith's personal collection ranging from 1790 to 1997 regarding Indiana history.
Dates:
1804-1982
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John M. Smith collection
John Rugenstein collection
Collection
Identifier: L300
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials assembled by John Rugenstein regarding the presidential campaign of Wendell Willkie. Included in this collection is campaign memorabilia such as buttons, literature, poetry, postcards, music, stickers and phonograph records. Also included is the correspondence of the various state and local Willkie Clubs, founded in 1940 to promote and support Willkie in his campaign. These items are divided geographically. There is information on the national (Associated of...
Dates:
1879-1959
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Rugenstein collection
John S. Benham photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP055
Identifier: SP055
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs and ephemera of John S. Benham in Ripley County, Indiana ranging from 1906 to 1922 and undated regarding his teaching and political career, which include several group photographs of teachers and students, a group of workers with timber on two wagons, and a group of U.S. congressmen in Canada. There are also two cards promoting Benham for Congress.
Dates:
1906-1922, undated
