Randolph County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
309th Observation Squad, United States Air Corps Reserve, Indiana aerial photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P069
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white aerial photogrographs from 309th Observation Squadron of the United States Air Corps Reserve in Indiana ranging from 1931 to 1936 regarding counties and Civilian Conservation Corps company sites around the state. Photographs are stamped with the squadron's information and include the pilot's name and the date.
Dates:
1931-1936
Adonijah P. Hulings diary
Collection — Folder S2244
Identifier: S2244
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of Adonijah P. Hulings's 1863 pocket diary. A note he entered at the beginning of the diary states that he purchased it on December 17, 1862 in Memphis, Tennessee during the time he was serving with the 69th Indiana Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He began his December 1862 entries in the memoranda section and then filled out the daily entries throughout 1863. The first page of the photocopies also includes the notation that the diary pages were sent...
Dates:
1862-1863, 1965
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Adonijah P. Hulings diary
Benjamin Davis receipt
Collection — Folder S3518
Identifier: S3518
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a single receipt acknowledging payment received from George Rust in Franklin Township, Randolph County, Indiana, on on October 29, 1859, in the amount of $21.00 for 100 bushels of lima beans from farmer Benjamin Davis.
Dates:
1859/10/29
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Benjamin Davis receipt
Bert E. Woodbury collection
Collection — Folder S1452
Identifier: S1452
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of chapters 20 through 43 of the typewritten manuscript “A History of Union City” by Bert E. Woodbury. Written from October 1935 to April 1936, the history relates information regarding the early settlement of the area and has biographical sketches of a number of early residents of the community, including Jeremiah Smith, Oliver H. Smith, Dr. Joel N. Converse, Simon Branham, William Anderson, Seth Hoke, John Koontz, Alfred Lenox, Abraham Hoke, William Marsh,...
Dates:
1935-1936
Hasselman and Blood family papers
Collection
Identifier: L385
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial documents, papers, photographs, maps, indentures, and ephemera from the Hasselman and Blood families and Eagle Machine Works in Indianapolis and other places in Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1829 to 1936 and undated, regarding the family, land ownership, and Eagle machine Works. Notable items include correspondence from May Wright Sewall and a wedding invitation for Benjamin Harrison's daughter, Mary Scott Harrison...
Dates:
1829-1936, undated
Henry Charles letters
Collection — Folder S0251
Identifier: S0251
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of fourteen letters from Charles to Sarah and Tamar Thorn in Selma, Ohio. Charles writes about his life and family, abolitionism, and his Quaker faith.
Dates:
1848-1858
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry Charles letters
James M. Hamilton certificate
Collection — Folder S0575
Identifier: S0575
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a photostat copy of James M. Hamilton's May 20, 1880 certificate authorizing his appointment as an enumerator for Washington Township, Randolph County, Indiana during the 1880 United States Federal Census.
Dates:
1880/05/20
John T. Chenoweth collection
Collection
Identifier: L030
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 41 account books, correspondence, and an obituary from John T. Chenoweth in Cincinnati, Ohio (1860); Huntsville, Randolph County, Indiana (1861-1863); Williamsburg, Wayne County (1863-1875); and Winchester, Randolph County (1875-1903).
Dates:
1860-1910
Lloyd A. Whitehead essay
Collection — Folder S1396
Identifier: S1396
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopy of Lloyd A. Whitehead's typewritten essay "The Mastodon Who Went to College" (circa 1970). The essay discusses the chain of events that led to the discovery of an incomplete mastodon skeleton on the Bookout Farm in Randolph County, Indiana and how it was combined with other remains found previously at New Paris, Ohio and mounted together at Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) in 1895. The mounted skeleton became known as the "Randolph Mastodon".
Dates:
circa 1970
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Lloyd A. Whitehead essay
Nathan R. Overman collection
Collection — Folder S1035
Identifier: S1035
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of letters sent to Nathan R. Overman predominantly from Nathan Cadwallader of Wayne and Randolph Counties, Indiana (1850-1878). The collection also contains Overman's original August, 1850 articles of agreement for teaching school in Tetersburg and a photocopy and transcription of another agreement from November 11, 1851; photocopies of his 1861 Franklin Almanac and Diary; a December 6, 1866 note authorizing payment of additional bounty for Civil War...
Dates:
1850-1903
