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Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 33 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

Mary Jane Lilly Flaningam papers

 Collection — Folder S469
Identifier: S0469
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of autographed, signed letters from James Lilly ranging from 1848 to 1851 regarding family matters and daily life; a stock certificate of the Tipton-Cicero Township School Building Corporation; correspondence and programs concerning the 49th and 50th annual meetings of the 325th Field Artillery Association, including a roster of the members of the unit; and biographies of charter members of the Plum Grove Extension Homemakers Club charter members as of...
Dates: 1848-1999

Midwest Cherokee Alliance Talking Leaves newsletters

 Collection — Folder S1607
Identifier: S1607
Scope and Contents This collection includes the Midwest Cherokee Allliance Talking Leaves newsletter ranging from 1983 to 1997. The newsletters share information about upcoming meetings, Cherokee history, and news regarding Alliance members.
Dates: 1983-1997

Nancy and Joseph Hayes personal narratives

 Collection — Folder S615
Identifier: S0615
Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal narratives of Nancy Billingsley Hayes and Joseph Hayes, which cover the period from 1786 to 1824. The collection consists of photocopies of the original Hayes writings and typewritten transcripts of these writings. Nancy Hayes relates her experiences traveling west with her family and the first years of her marriage to Joseph. She describes the earthquake of December 1811 and local experiences during the War of 1812. Joseph Hayes relates his experiences and...
Dates: mid-1800s

Overton Johnson papers

 Collection — Folder S736
Identifier: S0736
Scope and Contents This collection includes photostats of autographed, signed official documents and letters from the Society of Friends in Ohio on 1820/12/06; Anne O'Neall in Crawfordsville, Indiana on February 15, 1842; and from John McCullough in Concord, Indiana ranging from 1848/03/01 to 1848/05/23 regarding marriage, friendship poetry and everyday life.
Dates: 1820-1848

Roy Conrad oral history

 Collection
Identifier: OH061
Scope and Contents This collection contains a transcript, a reel-to-reel audiotape and an audio cassette tape of an oral interview with Roy Conrad, conducted by Jerry Handfield for the Indiana State Library in Monticello, Indiana on October 5, 1977 and December 6, 1978. Topics include: farming methods, rural society, and early family life.
Dates: 1977/10/04; 1978/12/06

S.A. Brown letter

 Collection — Folder S3124
Identifier: S3124
Scope and Contents Collection S3124 includes one letter, written November 17, 1851 by S.A. Brown and sent to a cousin, Eleanor Green of Bono, Indiana. In the letter, Brown reports on his mother’s health, the lack of rain, and the delay in travel for visitors Lusana Coots and John Cunningham to New Orleans. Brown inquires about the completion of the railroad and the well-being of Cousin Clark, who was living in the gold region.
Dates: 1851/11/17

T. J. Charlton papers

 Collection — Folder S0252
Identifier: S0252
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a poem written by Charlton about his school days in the 1850s and 1860s in Pleasant Township, Switzerland County, Indiana.
Dates: 1887

Vincennes University oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: OH058
Scope and Contents This collection contains 23 transcripts from oral history interviews with various residents of Vincennes, Indiana conducted by Thomas Krasean for Vinncennes University. Topics covered include family lineage, early Vincennes, childhood, teaching methods and policies in Indiana, the local African American community, and Prohibition.

Note: Page 21 of the Mabel Purcell Clark transcript is missing.
Dates: 1971-1973

Wabash Carnegie Public Library oral history transcripts

 Collection
Identifier: OH033
Scope and Contents This collection contains oral history transcripts of interviews with 45 individuals, conducted by George Dingledy for the Wabash Carnegie Public Library Oral History Project ranging from 1971 to 1986, regarding their lives and the history of Wabash, Indiana and the surrounding area.
Dates: 1971-1986