Education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:
Blanche Stillson papers
Collection — Folder S2443
Identifier: S2443
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten copy of an article published in the February 25, 1930 Indianapolis News that was written by Blanche Stillson about two portraits of Dr. and Mrs. C. G. McLean that were given to the Herron Art Institute. The article relates Dr. McLean's background and the history of the McLean Female Institute, a seminary for women in Indianapolis that operated for about 15 years before closing shortly after the U.S. Civil War. The article...
Dates:
circa 1930
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Blanche Stillson papers
Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S1709
Identifier: S1709
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of the records of School District No. 1, Township 26, N Range 12 East located in Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana. The records include meeting minutes from February 1844 to June 1851, lists of the number of children between the ages of 5 and 21 in the school district in 1844, 1849, 1850 and 1851, and a list of voters in the district in 1849. The record book was later used to record the sale of stamps, paper, and envelopes in October 1865.
Dates:
1844-1865
Carl E. Austin collection
Collection
Identifier: L275
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents related to the Austin family. Items include a school journal, songs and poems written by Carl Austin, Sr. A miscellaneous folder also contains a card from the Progressive Spiritualist Church, his work done during elementary school and a memo listing the owners of 340 W. 30th Street from 1930 to 1961.This collection also contains information about his son, Carl E. Austin, Jr. This includes his military service records, notes taken while a student at...
Dates:
1913-1961
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Carl E. Austin collection
Carroll and Mima Johnson collection
Collection — Folder S2271
Identifier: S2271
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several items from Carroll and Mima Johnson of Bedford, Indiana, including two essays written by Mary Francis Glover regarding the Jamestown Settlement (April 10, 1871) and Mammoth Cave (May 30, 1873); a circular advertisement for "Object-Lessons in Physiology," a book written by Dr. Hamilton Stillson of Bedford to help common school teachers teach physiology to beginners without a textbook (circa 1884); an envelope addressed to J. M. Johnson (May 16, 1884); a receipt...
Dates:
1871-circa 1909
Cass County collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1653
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a November 3, 1869 letter certifying that Rev. H. F. Miller was appointed fianancial secretary of Smithson College and was authorized to solicit funds for the Logansport institution; accounts, receipts and other documents ranging from 1869 to 1871 regarding the construction of the county jail and sheriff's residence; a May 29, 1889 application for natural gas to be used by D. D. (David Darwin) Dyeman; a circa 1888 document of the Dykeman, Wilson and Taber law office;...
Dates:
1846-1983
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cass County collection
Center Township, Rush County, Indiana collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2248
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of items related to Center Township, Rush County, Indiana, including docket entry records of the justice of the peace from November 1830 to September 1831; school attendance records for District No. 3, Township 15, Range 10 from November 1845 to February 1846, certified and signed on March 27, 1846 by the teacher, Gabriel F. Sutton; the treasurer's book of the Shiloh United Presbyterian Church Sabbath School containing entries ranging from 1884 to 1892; and...
Dates:
1830-1892
Cleason C. and Florence M. Brady certificates
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OBC139
Scope and Contents
This collection contains certificates from Cleason C. and Florence M. Moore in Indiana ranging from 1878 to 1897, including a marriage certificate for Cleason C. Brady and Florence M. Moore, both of Wabash County, Indiana, dated June 25, 1884 and signed by Rev. L. W. Monson. Also included is a certificate received by Florence Moore from the Chautauqua Literary and Science Circle (CLSC) of Chautauqua, New York for her completion of the CLSC four year course of reading dated August 18, 1886...
Dates:
1878-1897
Clinton County schools collection
Collection — Folder S1293
Identifier: S1293
Scope and Contents
This collection includes report cards, souvenir booklets, and examination questions from Clinton County schools in Clinton County, Indiana, ranging from 1904 to 1914. There are three report cards for Mary Stephenson (1904-1907); a certificate of credits for Mila Bolt from the Frankfort City Schools high school (1905-1906); a card for admitting Ruth Lee to Frankfort City Schools high school (June 7, 1907); two public school souvenir booklets and a souvenir card from Farmer Chapel Public School...
Dates:
1904-1914
Daniel D. Pratt papers
Collection — Folder S1846
Identifier: S1846
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence received by Daniel D. Pratt, including a January 27, 1862 letter from John Turley of Galveston, Cass County, Indiana, a January 1870 subscription notice from the Logansport Presbyterial Academy, and a November 10, 1870 letter sent by Schulyer Colfax along with an unused student attendance sheet of the Rising Sun Seminary from the time Pratt was principal of the school (1832-1833) that Colfax found in his old files. The collection also includes a two-page,...
Dates:
circa 1832- circa 1930
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Daniel D. Pratt papers
DePauw University photograph souvenir books
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: V447
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 2 photograph souvenir books, one from 1882 when the university was still known as Indiana Asbury University, the second from 1898. The books contain images of students, professors, and buildings on campus. The 1882 volume either belonged to, or was created by, T. O. Cunningham of Goshen, Indiana.
Dates:
1882, 1898
