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Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Elizabeth Moody collection
Collection
Identifier: L713
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 6 photograph albums and 3 scrapbooks, containing photographs, papers, pamphlets, postcards, souvenirs, currency, and ephemera, created by Betty Goodale Moody in Indiana, Florida, around the United States, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt, ranging from circa 1936 to 2015, regarding her personal and family life, friends, and travels within the United States and the Middle East. There are also miscellaneous photographs whose subjects were identified by Moody and her...
Dates:
circa 1936-2015
Myrtie Barker collection
Collection
Identifier: L583
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, newspaper articles, clippings, manuscripts, books, family papers, awards, and other materials from Myrtie Barker and the Barker family in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1907 to 1985 regarding her career as a writer and family life. There is also an oversize folder with a Sagamore of the Wabash award certificate, 1981/01/07; signed card from Indianapolis News staff, undated, and I Am...
Dates:
1907-1985
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Myrtie Barker collection
Noah Davis collection
Collection — Folder S0341
Identifier: S0340
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of letters, articles, and photographs from the Davis family in Indiana ranging from 1851 to 1972 regarding famly life and business and the U.S. Civil War. There are also genealogical charts prepared by Julia Helen Davis Smith on October 31, 1972. Subjects of the photographs are family reunions and a G.A.R. convention. The articles contain information about medicines, women, temperance meetings, and a washing machine.
Dates:
1851-1972
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Noah Davis collection
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Posey County collection
Richmond mastodon dig photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP001
Identifier: SP001
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs, a postcard, and an unpublished article written by journalist Jack Cejnar from Indiana ranging from 1930 to 1933 regarding the archaeological discovery of a 10,000-year old mastodon skeleton known as the "Richmond mastodon". The photographs depict the bones, dig site, visitors, the head paleontologist, John T. Sanford, and Donovan Harper. Cejnar originally submitted the materials to the Young Catholic...
Dates:
1930-1933
Robert R. Engels collection
Collection — Folder S2883
Identifier: S2883
Scope and Contents
This collection includes newspaper articles, articles from periodicals, personal correspondence, poetry, and photographs ranging from 1922 to 1946 regarding the Izaak Walton League and its desire to return unproductive agricultural land within the Kankakee Marsh back to marshland.
Dates:
1922-1946
Roscoe B. Fleming collection
Collection — Folder S0472
Identifier: S0472
Scope and Contents
This collection has one folder containing "The Story of Indiana" by Roscoe B. Fleming. This is a six-part article about the Ku Klux Klan and prohibition in Indiana politics in the 1920s. He gives a brief biography of D.C. Stephenson, the Grand Dragon of Indiana’s Ku Klux Klan, and his stakes amongst the political elite of the city and state including Governor Ed Jackson, and Indianapolis Mayor John L. Duvall. Fleming discusses Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League...
Dates:
1927 October
Samuel Craig papers
Collection — Folder S310
Identifier: S0310
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, two official government forms and a newspaper article from Anita Stempel and Dieter Michels in Germany and France ranging from 1947-1948 regarding post-World War II life and World War II service.
Dates:
1947-48
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Samuel Craig papers
Springfield Township, Franklin County, Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S1113
Identifier: S1113
Scope and Contents
This article explains how Springfield Township was set off from Brookville Township in Franklin County, Indiana, on May 12, 1817. There were two published sources used for this article, plus nine individuals. Mr. Ridenour gives the history of the first settlers, the churches, schools, organizations, and families. On page three, he wrote: "The metropolis of Springfield Township is Mount Carmel... founded in 1832." Of the nine schools in the township in 1882, five were still standing in 1966....
Dates:
1817-1966
Sylvia C. Hendricks articles
Collection — Folder S2819
Identifier: S2819
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two articles by Sylvia C. Hendricks on the center of population (COP) of the United States during the sixty years it was located in Indiana. The first article, clipped from Indianapolis Star Magazine for March 7, 1982, entitled "Indiana: 60 Years on Center," traces the COP as it moved from south of Greensburg (1890), to east of Columbus (1900), to Bloomington (1910), to Whitehall (1920), to Linton (1930), and finally to Carlisle (1940). The typed article,...
Dates:
1982/03/07
