Daguerreotype
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Hasselman and Blood family papers
Collection
Identifier: L385
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of business papers regarding Eagle Machine Works and indentures, deeds, plans, and other financial documents associated with land ownership and subdivision development in Indianapolis, Indiana. Also included are some personal papers and photographs from Hasselman and Blood families in various locations throughout the Midwest and United States including Indiana, Minnesota, and Kansas. Notable items include correspondence from May Wright Sewall and a wedding invitation...
Dates:
1847-1933
Hibben family papers
Collection
Identifier: L069
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, invitations and calling cards, accounts, stamps, newspaper clippings, membership cards, legal documents, and other papers, as well as photographs, negatives, lantern slides, artwork, textiles, and realia from members of the Hibben and Ketcham families in Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, and Europe ranging from circa 1840 to 1937 regarding family, military, legal, and social matters. Much of the early correspondence belonged to Sarah...
Dates:
circa 1840-1937
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hibben family papers
Indiana Civil War and pioneer photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P056
Scope and Contents
This collection includes tintype, daguerreotype, ambrotype, and carte de visite portrait photographs of numerous individuals from Indiana ranging from circa 1840 to 1876 regarding Union soldiers who served during the U.S. Civil War and a few men and women who settled in the state during the mid-19th century. There is also a large indistinguishable daguerreotype photograph of a possible Sunday School celebration on July 4, 1850 at Col. James Blake's home on the northwest corner of Capitol Avenue...
Dates:
circa 1840-1876
Lasselle family photographs
Collection — Folder SP080
Identifier: SP080
Scope and Contents
This collection includes carte-de-visite and daguerreotype portrait photographs of the Lasselle family from Fort Wayne, Indiana and New Orleans, as well as unknown places, ranging from circa 1841 to 1876, depicting three of Hyacinth Lasselle's children, Charles, Stanislaus, and Marie Louise, and several descendants--Francis J. Lasselle, Sophia A. (Lasselle) Nettlehurst DeWald, Hannah Nettlehurst, Apolline Julie (possibly Blanc, b. 1860), Joseph Wilfrid Sidney Blanc (b. 1862), Mary Frances...
Dates:
circa 1841-1876
William Campbell letters
Collection — Folder S0215
Identifier: S0215
Scope and Contents
There are three letters in this collection, plus a daguerreotype of Nancy and William holding a book. The first letter is undated and is addressed to “Respected Wife.” He mentions the steam boat Wisconsin, and “our iron horse … roaring like he would tear things to pieces.”On November 1, 1849, William wrote to James F. Harney about the possibility of the two of them rooming together. He said his health was bad. He wrote: “My desire is that on these local matters we be united.”...
Dates:
1849
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William Campbell letters
