Switzerland County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Annette Danglade "Early days in Switzerland County" manuscript
Collection — Folder S1526
Identifier: S1526
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the handwritten manuscript "Early Days in Switzerland County" by Annette Danglade of the Julia L. Dumont Club of Vevay, Indiana. The essay was published in the June 1917 edition of the Indiana Magazine of History and includes information regarding the first settlers and the establishment of townships, towns, and schools.
Dates:
1917
Corinne H. Dahmen photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP065
Identifier: SP065
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from Corinne H. Dahmen in Indiana from circa 1927-1928 regarding buildings in Switzerland County, including residences, churches, and a dilapidated ink factory. Many of the photographs have some connection to the Schenck family.
Dates:
1927-1928
DuFour family collection
Collection
Identifier: L046
Scope and Contents
The collection include John James DuFour’s daybook of expenses and travel notes (1796–1826), and his instructions and reports for his work in America (1796–1804); maps of the Swiss colony and Vevay (1802–1836); and 1810 description of New Switzerland; John Francis DuFour’s correspondence and appointments to public office; a 1917 transcript of David DuFour’s account of his 1801 voyage from Switzerland to America; and articles by Perret DuFour (1807–1884) on the early history of Switzerland...
Dates:
1762-1893
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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DuFour family collection
Elizabeth Shaw Smith papers
Collection — Folder S2261
Identifier: S2261
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of correspondence of Elizabeth Shaw Smith, including a July 2, 1862 letter sent by Frederick Thiebaud from Camp Morton, Indianapolis; an October 15, 1863 letter from her friend Mollie Peelman; a February 25, 1864 letter sent by J. (Jesse) D. Hall from Camp Carrington at Indianapolis; two letter sent by Hall from Fort Pulaski, Tennessee in May 1864 and on June 12, 1864 while serving with the 10th Indiana Cavalry; a June 25, 1865 letter sent by O. (Oliver) M....
Dates:
1862-1897
Frank M. Hohenberger, Indiana State Department of Geology photograph album
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P037
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a series of photographs from negatives made for the Indiana State Department of Geology during the months of September and October, 1918, in Monroe, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, Washington, Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Jefferson, Switzerland, Jennings, and Franklin counties, Indiana, by Frank W. Hohenberger, in Nashville, Indiana. The images largely depict natural sites, such as caves and rivers, but also mills, stone quarries, cemeteries, and other historic buildings.
Dates:
1918
Frederic L. Grisard, Jr. family letters
Collection — Folder S2321
Identifier: S2321
Scope and Contents
This collection contains typewritten transcriptions of letters sent to Frederic L. Grisard, Jr., his wife, Zelie, and his father, Frederic L. Gisard, Sr., all of whom lived in Vevay, Switzerland County, Indiana. The letters were translated from French to English by Nellie P. Waldenmaier, great-grandaughter of Frederic, Jr. The letters are organized into two sets, with the first set consisting of 16 letters sent from 1832 to 1848 to Frederic, Sr. and Frederic, Jr. and Zelie from the following...
Dates:
1832-1848
Harold Brown Adkinson papers
Collection
Identifier: L002
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs and negatives; Indianapolis Fire Department event programs; Indianapolis Fire Department records, procedures and scrapbooks; an index to Ohio and Mississippi River steamboat images; newspaper clippings and brochures about steamboats and flatboats, newspaper clippings from Indianapolis Fire Department collected by Harold Brown Adkinson in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1877 to 1943 regarding the Indianapolis Fire Department, steamboats and flatboats....
Dates:
1877-1943, undated
Hazel B. Warren collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2325
Scope and Contents
This collection includes items collected by Hazel Warren including a letter and wooden artist palette with wood inlays and poem from Placidus Kempf, O.S.B. in Saint Meinrad, Indiana, dated October 6, 1934, regarding his poem, "The Painter"; and a 6-page narrative entitled, "Index of the Pictures of the Swiss Colony at Vevay, Indiana" dated April 1924. There is also a letter from Bertha E. Dunham, from July 31, 1930, regarding the matter of a late order for dune prints that needed to be tinted...
Dates:
1924-1934
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hazel B. Warren collection
Isaac and David Leap photograph and envelope
Collection — Folder SP162
Identifier: SP162
Scope and Contents
This collection includes tintype photograph of Isaac and David Leap in Indiana circa 1860. There is also an accompanying envelope which carried the photograph from bookseller Raoul Renault in Quebec, Canada to museum curator Verne Patty in Carmel, Indiana.
Dates:
circa 1860
James F. Simpson family papers
Collection
Identifier: L355
Scope and Contents
This collection includes hand-written correspondence, newspaper clippings, real estate and insurance papers, photographs, family history, and account books from James F. Simpson ranging from 1810 to 1942, regarding life, business, Switzerland County, and Civil War veterans, pensions, battles, and reunions. Notable items include barbed wire from Fort Pompelle in France and 6th Indiana regiment flag fragments.
Dates:
1810-1942
