Business enterprises
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Indiana Handle Company collection
Collection
Identifier: L162
Content Description
This collection includes photographs, posters, ephemera, and artifacts, including a full-size wooden baseball bat, a small American flag made of baseball bats, a wooden finial, and a croquet mallet and ball from the Indiana Handle Company in Paoli, Indiana, ranging from 1988 to 2005, regarding the activities of the company, its products, and the organizaiton's connection to Don Mattingly, Major League Baseball player and coach.
Dates:
1932-2005
Indiana Mirror Manufacturing Company collection
Collection
Identifier: L473
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records of the Indiana Mirror Manufacturing Company from Indianapolis, Indiana, including inventories (1935-1953), trial balance/accounts receivable reports (1941-1954), and profit/loss statements (1935-1954). Also included are the biannual "Census of Manufacturers" (1927-1947) and reports related to the shipment of alcohol (1920-1947). There are also payroll records (1948-1952) which include information about the company’s employees, including birth dates and job...
Dates:
1911-1954
Indiana scenes photographic slides
Collection — Folder SP041
Identifier: SP041
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographic slides from different cities in Indiana ranging from circa 1950s to 1960s regarding buildings, monuments, businesses, other structures, and urban and rural scenes.
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1960
Indianapolis businesses collection
Collection — Folder S1795
Identifier: S1795
Scope and Contents
The collection includes items created by four Indianapolis businesses: one piece of stationery for notes, an invoice form, two letterheads clipped off larger pieces of stationery, and a price list, ranging from 1887 to 1915. Dates for the materials extend from 1887 to 1915. The businesses are Frank B. Ainsworth & Co., Condersaar & Co., When Clothing Co., and Hanson, Van Camp Co.
Dates:
1889-1915
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
Kuhn, Loeb & Company collection
Collection — Folder S1487
Identifier: S1487
Scope and Contents
This collection contains six letters sent between February 16, 1931 and August 4, 1931 regarding the question of whether the founders of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb, had lived in Indiana before establishing their company in New York. The correspondence includes letters from the Kuhn, Loeb and Co.; Ethel Cleland of the Business Branch of the Public Library (Indianapolis, IN); Cyril E. Kissane of the Wall Street Journal; James A. Stuart of...
Dates:
1931
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
Lincolniana Publishers photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP171
Identifier: SP171
Scope and Contents
This collection contains reproductions of images related to Abraham Lincoln from Lincolniana Publishers in Fort Wayne, Indiana used in 1934 and ranging from circa 1860 to 1934, regarding Lincoln, his family, career, pets, residences in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., and memorials in Spencer County, Indiana, as well as illustrations and political cartoons. There are also grave sites of Lincoln's family and others.
Dates:
1934
