Hunting -- Indiana

Scope and Contents This collection contains a cartoon created by Al Lindop regarding hunting from the 1940s. There is also an oversize cartoon from the same period on fishing (OB131).

Scope and Contents This collection includes a May 1, 1822 document drawn up for a proposed squirrel hunt that was to take place on May 11th in Dearborn County, Indiana. Around 30 men signed the document and the subscribers promised to pay "Jacob Blasdel or bearer two bushels of corn" by December first. The corn was to be used as a prize award for the three hunters who turned in the most squirrel scalps at the home of John Dawson of Cambridge. Some of the signed signatures include Charles Dawson, Nathaniel Daly,...

Scope and Contents This collection includes one free permit to hunt, fish, and trap without a license issued to David J. McCormick, dated July 21, 1928, by the Indiana Department of Conservation, Division of Fish and Game. This special free permit, "issued only to honorably discharged ex-service men residents of Indiana" was issued to the 79-year-old McCormick as a discharged veteran of the Spanish-American War.

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs from the English family in Lexington and Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1900 to 1910 regarding William E. English and his family and friends engaged in activities such as hunting, golf, driving, and vacationing; the family estate, Englishton Park, near Lexington and local subjects such as farming, dogs, gardens, cemeteries; and an event, most likely the unveiling of the William H. English monument, which took place on September 28,...

Scope and Contents This collection includes an Indiana resident hunter's license, issued to Guy Montgomery on February 18, 1907 by the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game. The hunting license includes Commissioner Z.T. [Zachary Taylor] Sweeney's signature and a photograph of Montgomery.

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and its predecessor, the Department of Conservation, in Indiana ranging from 1921 to circa 1970 and undated, regarding the activities of the state agency, its personnel, and the resources under its oversight. Some of the photographs appear to have been used in a publication, possibly the department's periodical, Outdoor Indiana, with a few images featuring...

Scope and Contents This collection includes a nine-page typed manuscript from Robert and Alexander Miller in Jefferson County, Indiana dated October 22, 1915, regarding pioneer life in Indiana.