Business enterprises -- Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Frank K. Sawyer Indianapolis businesses collection
Collection — Folder S2703
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
H. Lieber Company records
Collection — Folder S3089
Identifier: S3089
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises records from H. Lieber Company dated from 1868 to 1954 and undated, include three receipts, two advertisements for H. Lieber Company, a letter, an application for membership to the Better Business Bureau, a credit rating for H. Lieber Company, a photograph of the Lieber brothers and their father, and a sketch of the company's store facility in the year 1872. Other items included are a proclamation of appreciations to L. Strauss and Company for providing temporary...
Dates:
1868-1954, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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H. Lieber Company records
Indiana Historical Bureau correspondence and papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1569
Scope and Contents
Theis collection includes correspondence written to Dorothy Riker in 1949, containing information to include in a historical almanac of industries and manufacturers to be published by the Indiana Historical Bureau. There are also photostats and typed translations from the U.S. National Archives on Indian affairs in the Northwest Territory ranging from 1785 to 1786, including a deposition from William Doleman regarding contact of the British with Native Americans, a letter from Richard Butler...
Dates:
1785-1786, 1949
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
Indianapolis Brewing Company photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P033
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a loose photograph album of the Indianapolis Brewing Company, C.F. Schmidt Brewing Plant from Indianapolis, Indiana circa 1910-1920s. The album contains 64 photographs, 1 index, and 1 map. Photographs comprise the brewing plant facilities and equipment.
Dates:
circa 1910-circa 1920
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
Marion County, Indiana collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2365
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various items related to Marion County, Indiana ranging from 1867 to 1990. The collection is organized into several categories Folder 1 includes churches and religion, colleges and institutions, government buildings, Indianapolis buildings, and manufacturing. Folder 2 contains advertisements and letterheads, clubs and organizations, Foster Hall, Indianapolis homes, Indianapolis scenes, and miscellaneous. Much of the collection consists of prints, advertisements and...
Dates:
1867-1990
Polk Sanitary Milk Company collection
Collection
Identifier: L212
Scope and Contents
This collection includes company account books and microfilmed copies of drivers' route sheets from Polk Sanitary Milk Company in Indianapoolis, Indiana, as well as a scrapbook of records from the Mecca Realty Company and Citizens Brewery Company, ranging from 1904 to 1961, regarding the companies and their activities.
Dates:
1904-1961, undated
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
