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Farm life -- Indiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Carness and Ruth Owen collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3501
Content Description This collection includes 79 letters from Carness Elmer Owen and Ruth L. Mundy, his future wife, in Indiana ranging from 1920 to 1922 regarding their budding courtship andthe buildup for them to be married. The first 2 folders comprise Mundy's letters to Owen and the third are the replies from Owen to Mundy.
Dates: 1920-1922

George K. Marshall collection

 Collection — Folder S906
Identifier: S0906
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence from George Marshall in Cass County, Indiana ranging from 1888 to 1892.
Dates: 1888-1892

Hatfield family papers

 Collection — Folder OB007
Identifier: OB007
Scope and Contents This collection contains indentures for properties associated with the Hatfield family in the United States ranging from 1839 to 1847.
Dates: 1839-1847

Joseph Jenckes journal

 Collection — Folder OB178
Identifier: OB178
Scope and Contents This collection contains the journals of Joseph Jenckes, beginning in January of 1821 and continuing through October of 1822. Jenckes includes accounts of work accomplished by hired farm hands, weather conditions, and social life in Vigo County.
Dates: 1821-1822

L. B. Graves collection

 Collection
Identifier: L378
Scope and Contents The collection consists mostly of almanacs and diaries of L.B. Graves, which date from 1881 to 1961. With the exception of Barker’s Illustrated Almanac, L.B. Graves used almanacs as diaries. L.B. Graves kept all diaries, except for a student diary kept by his wife. The diaries include notations of farm chores or conditions and the social obligations of Mr. and Mrs. Graves, the latter related to such activities as church attendance, the Methodist Men’s Club, a...
Dates: 1881-1956

Myrtillus Satterthwaite collection

 Collection — Folder OBD003
Identifier: OBD003
Scope and Contents This collection contains the galley proof for Hoosier Courtships in the Buggy Days and related advertising materials by Myrtillus Satterthwaite circa 1943. Satterthwaite relates situations he has known (many are recollections of his family) or stories he has heard. The geographical setting of the book is southern Indiana, including Edinburg and Shelbyville, as well as Johnson County, Shelby County, and Jennings County. The book covers more than courtship,...
Dates: circa 1943

Orange County, Indiana diary

 Collection — Folder S2479
Identifier: S2479
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of a daily diary kept by a teenager living in Orange County, Indiana from June 1856 to February 1858. The author never identifies himself, but the diary may have been kept by Francis M. Morris, the son of Washington and Mary Catherine (Jackson) Morris. The diary entries are usually short and mention the weather, farm activities, going to town and the mill, going to "meeting," and his father's activities. Some names of relatives mentioned include his uncles...
Dates: 1856-1899

Pepper family photograph collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP138
Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs taken by Kate Reifel Pepper and others from Franklin County, Indiana in ranging from circa 1914 to circa 1915 regarding the Pepper and Reifel families, bridge building, farming, and Peppertown, Indiana.
Dates: circa 1914-circa 1915

Thomas W. Barnett papers

 Collection
Identifier: L571
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a photocopied diary of Thomas W. Barnett when he lived in Union Township, Fulton County, Indiana, from 1861 – 1870. Diary in folder 1, is written on pages from The Franklin Almanac and Diary for the Year 1861, which consists of 2 pages per month with a space for each date, the first page also showing sunrise, sunset, moon rise and moon setting time for each time zone in the United States, as well as the phases of the moon. This is a daily diary with...
Dates: 1861-1870

William Wilson diaries

 Collection
Identifier: V156
Scope and Contents This collection includes 16 volumes containing the diaries of William Wilson of Clinton County, Indiana. Ranging from 1880 to 1920, the diary entries include descriptions of farm life, social activities, and economic conditions along with personal finance notations and copies of affidavits regarding his disablity from his service in the Civil War. The first volume was originally a ledger used in 1859 and Wilson's first diary entry on December 29, 1880 mentions that he went to visit Sam Holiday...
Dates: 1859-1920