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Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:
Irvin Warner Neher diary
Collection — Folder S2619
Identifier: S2619
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten transcription of a diary kept by Irvin Warner Neher while he worked for the Ohio Oil Company in the gas and oil fields of northeastern Indiana in 1909. Along with brief entries regarding field activities, Neher's diary also includes information about the Irwin and Neher families. His son, Leslie I. Neher, transcribed the diary and added a list of short identification statements about the people and places mentioned in the diary and a one-page introduction...
Dates:
1909, 1986
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Irvin Warner Neher diary
James C. Vanderbilt collection
Collection
Identifier: L547
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Civil War letters from James C. Vanderbilt to his mother and aunt in New Albany, Indiana, ranging from 1861 to 1868, written while serving in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
Dates:
1861-1868
James Cunningham oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH072
Scope and Contents
In an oral history interview conducted by Jerry Handfield for the Indiana State Library on February 9, 1977, James Cunningham discusses his parents and their Irish heritage, his father’s work at the Pennsylvania railroad and move to the near South Side. He talks about attending St. John’s Catholic school, the brothers of the Holy Cross and school life in the early twentieth century. He talks about growing up in the near south side, the sports he participated in as a child and part time jobs he...
Dates:
1977/02/09
James H. Montgomery Civil War diary
Collection — Folder S2264
Identifier: S2264
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of a transcription of a diary kept by James H. Montgomery from February 10, 1864 to January 25, 1865, while he served with the United States Army Signal Corps during the Civil War. His diary includes entries regarding the weather and his daily activities, a list of the members of the Signal Corps, the song "My Birthday Song," acrostics, and poems. The collection also includes a photocopy of a one-page document regarding the origin of the coat of...
Dates:
1864-1865; 1967
James H. St John diary
Collection — Folder S1235
Identifier: S1235
Scope and Contents
This colleciton comprises a transcribed and typed diary from James H. St. John in 1863, concerning his service with the 83rd Indiana Regiment during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1863
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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James H. St John diary
James Miller oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH201
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a transcript and audiotape reel from an oral history interview with Reverend James Miller, conducted by Thomas Krasean for the Indiana State Library on October 2, 1968, at Waugh, Boone County, Indiana. The interview covers his experiences in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War, life following the war, conversion and life as a preacher, and discusses the Ku Klux Klan and its effects on his ministry.
Dates:
1968/10/02
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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James Miller oral history
James W. Daniels diary
Collection — Folder S2601
Identifier: S2601
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten transcription of a diary kept by James W. Daniels when he served with the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War. Ranging from September 1861 to December 1862, his entries are narratives of the movements and actions of his regiment.
Dates:
1861-1862
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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James W. Daniels diary
James Whitcomb Riley Boyhood Home hostess oral histories
Collection
Identifier: OH029
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 6 audio cassette tapes and transcripts of interviews with hostesses at the James Whitcomb Riley Home in Greenfield, Indiana, including Lucinda Jean Arthur, Charlotte Barnett, Elizabeth Gappen, Edna Jacobs, Dorothy June WIlliams, and Ruth Williamson. Interviews were conducted by local teacher Carol Cummings during June-July 1987.
Dates:
1987 June-July
James Wilson biographical sketch
Collection — Folder S1850
Identifier: S1850
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a one-page typewritten transcription made from page 174 of the book, Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol 6 that was published in 1824. Transcribed on November 5, 1949 by H.P. (Homer Philip) Rogers of Pendleton, Oregon, the biographical sketch provides information about James Wilson's first wife, Rachel Bird, his second wife, Hannah Gray, and his seven children.
Dates:
1824, 1949
Jane Frazier diary
Collection — Folder S2988
Identifier: S2988
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a typed transcription of a portion of a diary with the title "Great-Grandmother of Goods and Hildebradt Tells of Her Capture and Release by Indians 2 Centuries Ago." The diary from which this 5-page typed transcription is taken was in the possession of John Good and his brothers near Lockport, a few miles west of Logansport, Indiana. The diary recounts Jane Frazier's captrue by Miami Indians, her treatment by those Indians, her adoption into the tribe, her escape...
Dates:
1755-1815, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Jane Frazier diary
