Reminiscing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Faye Hite, "Dreams Do Happen" manuscript
Collection — Folder S2296
Identifier: S2296
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of "Dreams Do Happen," a manuscript containing a collection of essays written by Mary Faye Hite and compiled in circa 1980. The essays cover a variety of topics, including family history, country and pioneer living, nature, travel, and historic people, places, and events. Many essays have a patriotic theme and one essay, "Political Issues," relays her opinion regarding the Equal Rights Amendment, and how estates should be settled. Another essay, "Home Remedies,"...
Dates:
circa 1980
Maude Stines Crockett memoir
Collection — Folder S1844
Identifier: S1844
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two copies of a paper by Maude Stines Crockett in Indianapolis, Indiana regarding the founding of the Brightwood neighborhood and her experiences growing up in Indianapolis.
Dates:
undated
Mooresville, Indiana reminiscences
Collection — Folder S1901
Identifier: S1901
Scope and Contents
This collection includes handwritten reminiscences by an unknown author regarding experiences from his childhood in Mooresville, Indiana. His first story describes meeting a boy named "Hurshall" who was traveling with a group performing "The Last Days of Pompeii" when the author was about 6 years old. The second story with the faint title, "How I Got the Reward," is incomplete and involves the town's efforts to catch some thieves and his involvement with reporting some suspicious men to a...
Dates:
19th century-20th century
Nancy Maze personal narrative
Collection — Folder S2198
Identifier: S2198
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises a copy of a 20-page, typed manuscript, entitled "Looking Backward," with handwritten edits, by Nancy Catherine (Goar) Maze written late in her life, concerning her family history and recollections of growing up in Tiption County.
Dates:
circa 1900 to 1946
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Oscar Schmidt manuscript
P.J. Emmert papers
Collection — Folder S424
Identifier: S0424
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed carbon, mimeographed and autographed, signed document from P.J. Emmert in Lawrenceburg, Indiana ranging from 1850s to 1926 regarding personal reminiscences.
Dates:
1926
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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P.J. Emmert papers
Reverend Ezra Butler Newcomb "Reminiscences" manuscript
Collection — Folder S0253
Identifier: S0253
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Rev. Ezra Butler Newcomb's typewritten manuscript, "Reminiscences" (circa 1930's). Rev. Newcomb wrote the manuscript in reply to frequent requests from family members that he share family history and early life in Indianapolis. The information is shared under these subject headings: Our Family; Homes and Life in Indianapolis; Connections with Indianapolis Conditions; Indianapolis Churches; A Boy in Indianapolis; Seeing Abraham Lincoln; Later Years; and Documents...
Dates:
circa 1930s
Robert R. Fohl, Sr. reminiscences
Collection — Folder S2524
Identifier: S2524
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of the handwritten reminiscences that Robert R. Fohl, Sr. started on January 26, 1944 and continued writing over the years up to his final entry on December 25, 1974. Fohl’s memoir relates his experiences growing up on the north side of Indianapolis and provides information regarding family, neighbors, local businesses, and places of interest, including the Empire Theatre, Crown Hill Cemetery, and Fairview Park (now the grounds of Butler University.) He...
Dates:
1924-1977
Rollinson family reminiscences
Collection — Folder S2208
Identifier: S2208
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typewritten copies of "From Indiana to Arkansas by Flatboat, 1873 by Charles Perry Rollison and Party," a reminiscence by Thaddeus W. Rollison and dated March 19, 1937, and "Flatboat Trip from Indiana to Arkansas of William A. Rollison and Party Sunday, June 1, 1873," James Davis Rollison's recollections of his trip written down in the fall of 1906. Along with some family biographical information, the two reminiscences contain descriptions of the flatboats and how they...
Dates:
1906-1937
Rose Francis B. Howe papers
Collection — Folder S0691
Identifier: S0691
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed copy and a photostat copy of a letter from Rose Howe in Indiana or Illinois on January 1, 1869 regarding illness and the time she spent at school and friendships with the sisters.
Dates:
1869
