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Daguerreotype photographs

 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 correspondence, legal and financial documents, papers, photographs, maps, indentures, and ephemera from the Hasselman and Blood families and Eagle Machine Works in Indianapolis and other places in Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1829 to 1936 and undated, regarding the family, land ownership, and Eagle machine Works. Notable items include correspondence from May Wright Sewall and a wedding invitation for Benjamin Harrison's daughter, Mary Scott Harrison...
Dates: 1829-1936, undated
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Hasselman and Blood family papers

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 / 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
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Indiana Civil War and pioneer photograph collection

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
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Lasselle family photographs

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 / William Campbell letters

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