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New Harmony (Ind.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Harry D. Hartley collection

 Collection
Identifier: L273
Scope and Contents The collection includes Harry D. Hartley’s correspondence and papers regarding his family’s property (1925–1940), particularly property in Kokomo, Howard County, Indianak, which was leased for an A and P grocery store in 1930. Also included is correspondence pertaining to his proposed book on the contributions of Hoosiers to the development of the United States and western civilization (1939–1951), and letters relating to an Indianapolis talk given by Arthur E. Morgan on his investigations into...
Dates: 1925-1951

Historic documents and sites lantern slides

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P017
Scope and Contents This collection includes glass lantern slides mostly created by W. H. Bass Photo Company in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1897 to circa 1916 regarding early Indiana history, including historic sites at Vincennes, New Harmony, and the state capitols, as well as the Indiana centennial. Many of the slides depict historical documents relating to early European settlement of the Northwest Territory and portraits of prominent Hoosier individuals. It is possible these slides were used for...
Dates: circa 1897-circa 1916

Homer Fauntleroy home photograph collection

 Collection — Folder SP027
Identifier: SP027
Scope and Contents This collection includes 6 photographs taken by Homer Fauntleroy in New Harmony, Indiana ranging from circa 1910 to 1923 regarding the interior of the Fauntleroy home. One photograph shows his sister, Mary Emily Fauntleroy reading.
Dates: circa 1910-1923

Indiana Department of Natural Resources photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P038
Scope and Contents This collection includes the photographs from Indiana Department of Natural Resources in Indiana from 1967 and undated regarding state parks, nature sites and recreation areas, historic sites, landmarks, memorials, museums, and buildings around Indiana.
Dates: 1967, undated

Josiah Warren collection

 Collection — Folder S1365
Identifier: S1365
Scope and Contents This collection comprises photostats of handwritten letters from the Warren family in Indiana and Ohio and a marriage certificate for Caroline and Josiah Warren, ranging from 1817 to 1853 regarding family life and news.
Dates: 1817-1853

Lucas Weber, "New Harmony on the Wabash" lithographs

 Collection — Folder OBD054
Identifier: OBD054
Scope and Contents This collection contains various versions of the lithograph "New Harmony on the Wabash" by Lucas Weber and Karl Bodden from 1843 to 1844.
Dates: 1843-1844

Matthew Ritchie Southard collection

 Collection — Folder S1223
Identifier: S1223
Scope and Contents There are six items in this collection which make reference to New Harmony, Indiana; Robert Dale Owen; and I. W. Swift. (1) Letter to Hon. M.R. Southard, Indianapolis, dated December 12, 1838, from R. D. Owen in New Harmony. He mentions that Mrs. Southard, who "has not been well, is, as I hear, much better today." (2) Letter to M. R. Southard, Member of the legislature (he was a Representative), Indianapolis, dated December 26, 1839, from I. W. Swift in New Harmony. This letter requests that...
Dates: 1839-1929

Oscar Schmidt manuscript

 Collection — Folder S1141
Identifier: S1141
Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed manuscript, with handwritten edits, entitled "Echoes" by Oscar Schmidt in Spencer, Indiana regarding a story about narrator Dick Wheeler, who along with several friends, visits the estate home of Mrs. Ellen Gilbert in southern Indiana, presumably in New Harmony. The story provides a detailed narrative of the immigration of George Rapp and his followers from Germany to western Pennsylvania in 1803, and their move to Harmony, Indiana in 1814.
Dates: undated

Phillip Price collection

 Collection — Folder S1083
Identifier: S1083
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence written in 1850 and 1859. The four-page letter was written from Philadelphia on September 10, 1850 to "My Dear Brother" from Phillip Price, who was a Quaker. The second letter was written to "My Dear Mother," on February 28, 1859, from William Price, in Cincinnati. He wrote: "Poor Fanny [last name illegible] -- whom thee may recollect as the forlorn old woman residing in the cottage on the hills -- was killed yesterday on the Hamilton and...
Dates: 1850-1859

Posey County collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1687
Scope and Contents The collection contains materials related to Posey County, Indiana, comprising copies of handwritten minutes and constitution of the Society of New Harmony Community of Equality, New Harmony, Indiana (1825-1826); a typed, translated copy of a February 1, 1837 letter from Prince Maximilian von Wied to Charles Lesueur of New Harmony, Indiana regarding a visit to New Harmon y in 1832-1833 (original at Indiana Historical Society); a handwritten letter from W.H. Watkins in New Harmony to A.M....
Dates: 1825-1959