Museum exhibits

Scope and Contents This collection has newsletters, memos, a membership form, and a list of people who loaned material to the Indiana State Museum. The first newsletter by President John G. Biel tells about a collection of Indian artifacts donated to the Illinois State Museum because Indiana did not have a state museum. A document dated July 25, 1966, by the Indiana State Parks, gives a summary of collections donated to the state, beginning with David Dale Owen's rock collection about 1859. Civil War flags,...

Scope and Contents Items in this collection consist largely of photocopies of original articles, catalogs, and photographs used in the research and creation of the exhibit, Wooton Patent Desks: A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place at the Indiana State Museum in 1983. Included are articles, advertisements, catalogs, and other historical information regarding the Wooton Desk Company and other contemporary furniture makers in Indiana. There is background information on...

Scope and Contents This collection contains a copy of Turner in Indiana, a book published in 1963 by Kurt F. Pantzer, Sr. about his collection of Joseph Mallord William Turner pencil sketches, watercolor drawings, oils, and engraved works that were exhibited at the University of Notre Dame Art Gallery in February 1963. Of 150 bound copies printed, the volume in this collection is No. 96 and was inscribed to Lord and Lady MacDermott by Kurt and Kitty Pantzer on July 13, 1963. The...