Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Rodney C. Perkins collection
Collection
Identifier: L307
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three typewritten drafts of "Camp and Community", an unpublished novel about the Civilian Conservation Corps written by Rodney C. Perkins in Indiana circa 1983. There are carbon copies of his first draft and final draft with corrections and a copy of the completed manuscript. An author's preface is also included with the final draft copies.
Dates:
circa 1983
Ross Franklin Lockridge collection
Collection
Identifier: L598
Scope and Contents
The collection includes papers regarding Ross Franklin Lockridge's duties as director of Hoosier Historic Memorial Activities, ranging from 1825 to 1950 and undated. The bulk of the collection concerns New Harmony, Indiana and members of the Owen community, as well as Indiana historical events and figures. Also included are speeches and papers written by Lockridge and his students on early Hoosiers, including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and other Indiana and United States history...
Dates:
1877-1952
Virginia Ellis Jenckes papers
Collection
Identifier: L374
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of correspondences, papers, speeches, clippings, pamphlets, ephemera, and photographs from Virginia Ellis Jenckes’s congressional and nonprofit work nonprofit work in Indiana, Washington, D.C., and France, ranging from 1930 to 1951, regarding her political career and work with the Red Cross, as well as the Agriculture Waste Recovery Project (1933–1943) and other efforts to help farmers during the Depression; flood control on the Wabash and White Rivers;...
Dates:
1918-1951
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
