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Business enterprises -- Indiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Porter-Griffin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: L535
Scope and Contents This is a collection of 46 manuscript boxes, 1 clamshell box, 118 ledgers, and 3 oversized folders, arranged in 8 series. The collection consists of papers of William A. Porter and his heirs from 1813 to 1979, as well papers from the Griffin and McGrain Company. Materials include personal correspondence, business and legal correspondence, political publications and letters, business ledgers, school and local entertainment programs, programs form various churches and their activities in Corydon...
Dates: 1813-1979

Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, Allison Branch collection

 Collection — Folder S2307
Identifier: S2307
Scope and Contents This collection contains several items ranging from 1946 to 2011 from the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust/Allison Branch archives of Indianapolis, Indiana. The items include a "Fact Sheet" about the Allison Gas Turbine Division, General Motors Corporation, a copy of "History of Allison Engine School Locations," and a copy of "Allison - The Man, the Name, the Tradition," a history of the Indianapolis operations, all from the 1980s; a copy of "James A. Allison Story," an undated two-page biography; a...
Dates: 1946-2011

Samuel Merrill papers

 Collection
Identifier: L106
Scope and Contents The collection consists principally of Samuel Merrill’s Civil War papers, including his letters to his wife and sister in Indianapolis from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina (1862-1865). Also included are his war diary (1863), orders, clothing and equipment records, as well as other official military papers (1862-1865). The collection also contains business papers of Merrill and his family (1850-circa 1900), including papers of his father, essays on Indiana’s state capitals, and...
Dates: 1850-1924

Schofield family account book

 Collection — Volume V386
Identifier: V386
Scope and Contents This collection includes an account book kept by members of the Schofield family of Marion County, Indiana containing entries dating from 1836 to 1868. The accounts kept in the book indicate the operation of a general store dealing primarily in groceries, dry goods, clothing, and occasional sales of hardware. It appears to have been a frequent practice for customers to work off their bills and when this occured, the hourly wage and hours worked were recorded. The account book also includes...
Dates: 1836-1868

The Indiana Manufacturing Company letter

 Collection — Folder S2345
Identifier: S2345
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter sent by the Indiana Manufacturing Company of Peru, Indiana to Alexander and Howell, a hardware store located in Dixon, Illinois. Dated May 20, 1876, the letter promotes the company's "Champion Corn Sheller" and is signed by Indiana Manufacturing Company treasurer B. E. Stockwell.
Dates: 1876/05/20

The Sampler furniture store advertisements

 Collection — Folder S2421
Identifier: S2421
Scope and Contents This collection includes two picture postcard advertisements for The Sampler furniture showroom in Homer, Indiana. Dating from the 1950s to 1960s, each postcard has information about the store and a map showing its location on the address side, and pictures from the store's dining room displays on the reverse side.
Dates: circa 1950-1960

"The Standard Vehicle Company of Lawrenceburg, Indiana" historical sketch

 Collection — Folder S2401
Identifier: S2401
Scope and Contents This collection contains a copy of "The Standard Vehicle Company of Lawrenceburg, Indiana," a historical sketch written circa 1960 about the buggy manufacturer that once operated in Dearborn County. The 9-page history includes a title page with Harriet Fox's signature at the bottom, presumably the author of the sketch; a bibliography page titled "Biography"; and photographs and clippings.
Dates: circa 1960

Up-to-Date Manufacturing Company price list and letter

 Collection — Folder S2777
Identifier: S2777
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter of business correspondence and two different price lists for the Up-to-Date Manufacturing Company of Terre Haute, Indiana, in October 1911. The Up-to-Date M.F.G. Co., as it is also called, was a creator of ornamental and iron fencing.
Dates: 1911/10/25

Vanderburgh County collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1701
Scope and Contents This collection contains a variety of documents related to Vanderburgh County, Indiana, including an indenture of apprenticeship binding James Alexander Robinson to Moses P. Morgan dated June 6, 1853; a circa 1860 clipping of illustrations of Evansville and Indianapolis sites with the caption "City of Evansville - The Commercial Metropolis of Indiana"; documents related to the local precinct activities of Republicans in 1876-1877; correspondence of James H. McNeely from 1877; and a letterhead...
Dates: 1853-1951, undated

Vesper Cook, "The Brownell Block and Senger Dry Goods Company" paper

 Collection — Folder S2885
Identifier: S2885
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a typed history of the Brownell block of Peru, Indiana written by Vesper Cook, dated 1982, with a focus on the Senger Dry Goods Company. Senger was responsible for the last major transformation of the block. The first three pages of this history describe initial construction of the two commercial buildings of the Brownell block under C.H. Brownell, President of Citizens’ National Bank, and Charles Spencer, who let out the contract on the adjoining building. The...
Dates: 1982