State parks
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
H. M. Flora, Jefferson County, Indiana photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P008
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs from H.M. Flora in Madison, Indiana ranging from 1926 to 1927 and undated, regarding houses, buildings, landscapes, and other scenes in Madison, Indiana and its surroundings in Jefferson County.
Dates:
1926-1927, undated
Hugh A. Barnhart photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP157
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs from Hugh A. Barnhart in Indiana, the United States, and Japan, ranging from circa 1880 to 1953, regarding his career with the Indiana Department of Conservation, his political and social life, people he knew, current events, such as a Depression-era bread line, Indiana participants in war criminal trials in Japan post-World War II, and historic sites, including the Nancy Hanks Lincoln State Memorial and Richard Lieber's memorial at Turkey...
Dates:
circa 1880-1953
Indiana Department of Conservation manuscript
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2046
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a manuscript about the early history of the area that became Turkey Run State Park in Parke County, Indiana (circa 1940s). Topics covered include the area's topography and geology; the history of the Native Americans who inhabited Indiana, both pre-historic and those that lived in the area prior to and during its conquest by the Spanish, French, English and Americans; Parke County pioneer history; and the story of Salmon Lusk and his family. There are also two earlier...
Dates:
circa 1940s
Indiana Department of Natural Resources conservation photograph collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P076
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and its predecessor, the Department of Conservation, in Indiana ranging from 1921 to circa 1970 and undated, regarding the activities of the state agency, its personnel, and the resources under its oversight. Some of the photographs appear to have been used in a publication, possibly the department's periodical, Outdoor Indiana, with a few images featuring...
Dates:
1921-circa 1970, undated
Indiana Department of Natural Resources photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P038
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the photographs from Indiana Department of Natural Resources in Indiana from 1967 and undated regarding state parks, nature sites and recreation areas, historic sites, landmarks, memorials, museums, and buildings around Indiana.
Dates:
1967, undated
Indiana nature photographic slides
Collection — Folder SP039
Identifier: SP039
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 35mm slides of nature scenes in Indiana circa 1950s, including rivers, waterfalls, caves, and state parks. These slides are dupllicates of the collection Indiana nature scenes lantern slides (P021).
Dates:
circa 1950
Indiana state parks photograph album pages
Collection — Folder SP167
Identifier: SP167
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two pages with 6 black-and-white photographs from three Indiana state parks--Brown County State Park in Nashville, Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton, and Spring Mill State Park in Mitchell--during the mid-20th century.
Dates:
circa 1930-circa 1950
Jack McCormick papers
Collection
Identifier: L095
Scope and Contents
This collection includes indexes, histories, photographs, pamphlets, maps and correspondence from Jack McCormick and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (formerly Indiana Department of Conservation) in Indiana ranging from 1883 to 1970 regarding Shades State Park, Pine Hills Nature Preserve, and other Indiana state parks.The oversize maps of the Alamo Quadrangle, Pine Hills, and Shades State Park and its surroundings range in dates from 1939 to 1950, though many are undated...
Dates:
1820-circa 1964
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Jack McCormick papers
Juliet V. Strauss, Turkey Run Commission document
Collection — Folder S3084
Identifier: S3084
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a document sent to Juiet V. Strauss in Rockville, Indiana from Governor Samuel Ralston of Indiana appointing her and two other individuals--William Watson Woollen and Vida Newsome--to the Turkey Run Commission on April 27, 1915, for the purpose of discovering the best way to preserve the area which included Turkey Run, Bloomingdale Glens, and the surrounding area.
Dates:
1915/04/27
Louise Wood, Highlands Hammock State Park collection
Collection — Folder S1918
Identifier: S1918
Scope and Contents
This collection has four letters related to Louise Wood's inquiry regarding the Richard Leiber Memorial Trail in the Highlands Hammock State Park (Sebring, Florida), including an April 12, 1969 letter from Captain R. G. Baylor, superintendent of Highlands Hammock; an April 18, 1969 letter from Allen Altvater, former superintendent of the park, and copies of Wood's response letters to Baylor and Alvater written on June 26, 1969. In Mr. Altvater's letter, he shares stories about Col. Lieber's...
Dates:
1966-1969
