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Business enterprises

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Crown Potteries Company employee photograph collection

 Collection — Folder SP045
Identifier: SP045
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photograph, small photograph album, and two copies of an advertisement from Crown Potteries Company in Evansville, Indiana and Mammoth Cave in Kentucky ranging from 1935 to 1952 regarding the company, its employees, and the city of Evansville. The single photograph shows a large group of men, women, and children, probably Crown Potteries Co. employees and their families, at the entrance sign for Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, around the 1930s. The album appears to be from... Dates: circa 1930

Daniel H. Prunk papers

 Collection — Folder S1921
Identifier: S1921
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of correspondence ranging from 1866 to 1869 regarding the settling of accounts between Dr. Daniel H. Prunk and his supplier of coffins, caskets, coffin tops, and funeral accessories. Correspondence includes letters sent by Parish & Wood (later Hooke & Wood) Wholesale and Retail Furniture Dealers and Hon. T.R. Stanley of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The collection also includes photocopies of Dr. Prunk's day book that he used to record orders to be filled,... Dates: 1864-1883

Elizabeth Harper and Meta Murray oral history

 Collection
Identifier: OH069
Scope and Contents This collection comprises an audio cassette tape from an oral history interview with Elizabeth Harper and Meta Murray in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 11, 1981, regarding their childhood, family, and friendship, as well as Lockerbie Square neighborhood in Indianapolis, James Whitcomb Riley, and the local Jewish community. Harper and Murray were interviewed by F. Gerald Handfield as part of the Indiana State Library Oral History Project.The transcripts were initially generated on... Dates: 1981/05/11

Emrich Furniture Company collection

 Collection — Folder S2831
Identifier: S2831
Scope and Contents This collection includes financial statements, account records, and correspondence from the Emrich Furniture Company in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1887 to 1941 regarding the company's activities. There is also an illustrated catalog of sideboards and buffets manufactured by the company from 1903. Dates: 1887-1941

Ewing family collection

 Collection
Identifier: L323
Scope and Contents This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and... Dates: 1818-1889

F. Gerald Handfield collection

 Collection
Identifier: L731
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, papers, pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, periodicals, photographs, postcards, ephemera, notes, and oral history papers, transcripts, and audio cassette tapes from F. Gerald Handfield in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Washington, ranging from 1815 to 2004 and undated, regarding Handfield's career and work in the history and archives fields, including at the Indiana State Library, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Archives, and Washington State... Dates: 1815-2004, undated

Francis D. Warner collection

 Collection — Folder S1362
Identifier: S1362
Scope and Contents This collection includes certificates, accounts, deeds, and pamphlets from Francis D. Warner ranging from 1856 to 1885 and undated, related to business concerns and membership to organizations such as the Masonic Mutual Benefit Society of Indiana, Norther Indiana Agricultural Society, and the New Carlisle and Farmers Union Fair Association.There are also undated certificates for F. D. Warner and Mrs. D. E. Warner from the Imperishable Burial Vault Company; the 1870 constitution and bylaws of... Dates: 1856-1889

Frank K. Sawyer Indianapolis businesses collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2703
Scope and Contents This collection contains an assortment of approximately 415 items collected by Frank K. Sawyer in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1854 to 1905, including correspondence, advertisements, flyers, brochures, bills, accounts, receipts, financial statements, invoices, and notes. Some receipts are handwritten on scraps of paper, while others are making use of printed business forms which display distinctive letterheads. Most of these receipts are mounted to the pages of a scrapbook and are often... Dates: 1854-1905

George W. Ewing letters

 Collection — Folder S1825
Identifier: S1825
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence sent by George Washington Ewing to Byrum D. Miner of Fort Wayne, Indiana regarding the sale of furs and skins, William G. Ewing's estate, and other legal matters (1855-1856). The collection also includes a November 29, 1849 bill from Brown's Hotel in Washington, D.C. and three letters sent by Lucinda Smith of Evansville, Indiana to Ewing and Miner regarding the collection of rent from the government for cattle and stables kept on property presumably owned... Dates: 1849-1865

Gibson Teas account book

 Collection — Folder S1290
Identifier: S1290
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a transcription of an account book from Gibson Teas in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana rainging from 1853 to 1856, regarding the activities and correspondence of his business of broom and wood tool manufacturing. The account book was transcribed by R. A. Stubbs of Long Lake, Minnesota. Dates: 1853-1856