New Albany (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Noble Chase Butler collection
Collection
Identifier: L026
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of letters to Noah Chase Butler from the period 1870-1933. There are a number of letters from Walter Q. Gresham, his law partner, on political and legal affairs. A large portion of the remaining correspondence is family letters, including letters from his son, Noble Butler, Jr. while a student at Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute (1898) and from his daughters in Oberlin, Ohio; Ithaca, New York; and Summit, New Jersey. There are also letters regarding the...
Dates:
1820-1933
Ohio, Wabash, and White Rivers flood collection
Collection — Folder S1538
Identifier: S1538
Scope and Contents
No author is given for this 28-page, typed manuscript. The narrative accompanied aerial photos showing the floods in Jeffersonville, New Albany, Madison, Lawrenceburg, and other places. Pages 1-8 gives a general report of the 1937 floor. Pages 9-22 tells of the trip by Governor Townsend and his party. Pages 23-28 continues the narrative decribing aerial views. The narrative tells of the work by WPA men. The Niblack levee north of Vincennes on the Wabash River was saved by "heroic efforts." ...
Dates:
1937
Peter and Margaret Frentz patents
Collection — Folder OBC057
Identifier: OBC057
Scope and Contents
This collection includes patents for Peter and Margaret Frentz in New Albany, Indiana ranging from 1866 to 1869.
Dates:
1866-1869
Public Service Company of Indiana broadsides
Collection
Identifier: B091
Scope and Contents
This collection includes broadsides (series 85, 87-98, 100, 109) from Public Service Company of Indiana in Plainfield, Indiana ranging from 1955 to 1956 and undated, regarding the company's activities and sights and scenes of interest around Indiana.
Dates:
1955-1956, undated
Sherman Minton and Austin A. Cole letter and photograph
Collection — Folder S0983
Identifier: S0983
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a May 29, 1954 letter written by United States Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton and sent to Dr. Austin A. Cole, principal of New Albany High School in New Albany, Indiana. In the letter, Minton thanks Cole for inviting him to the school's centennial celebration and states that it was "one of the happiest experience of my life." The collection also includes a photograph of Minton and Cole holding a portrait of Minton that was presented to the school by the school's...
Dates:
1954/05
Thomas Dowling collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0372
Scope and Contents
The collection of 50 items includes letters regarding the operation and finances of the Wabash and Erie Canal (1850-1854); correspondence with Daniel W. Voorhees regarding a disagreement over a railroad lawsuit (1873); reports on expenditures of New Albany and Terre Haute schools (1868); bids and bills for construction of a building in Terre Haute (1864); and other business papers. Among the correspondents were Charles Butler, John Dowling, and Daniel W. Voorhees. The documents are all...
Dates:
1833-1874
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Thomas Dowling collection
W. S. Ward diary
Collection — Folder S1360
Identifier: S1360
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photostat copy of a diary from W. S. Ward, written in 1839 diary regarding his trip on a flatboard from New Albany, Indiana to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dates:
1839
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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W. S. Ward diary
Walker family collection
Collection
Identifier: L369
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, various documents, photographs, and memorabilia from the Walker family of New Albany, Indiana. The collection contains Francis Walker's Clermont (Ohio) Academy writings; his and his wife Mary's family correspondence (1851-1913); his correspondence from other Methodist ministers and DePauw University officials (1860s-1910); his and Mary's writings (1848-1901); and some letters and documents of his father, James Walker (1820-1837). The bulk of...
Dates:
1820-1988, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Walker family collection
Walter H. Kiser papers
Collection — Folder S2276
Identifier: S2276
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of research papers from Walter H. Kiser, including a typewritten transcription of "Aaron Burr's Canal Project at the Falls of the Ohio," an essay read by John H. Stotsenburg before the Clark County Historical Society in December 1904, and typewritten histories of various steamboats built in New Albany, Indiana, transcribed from Way's Steamboat Directory (1944), Way's Directory of Western...
Dates:
1862-1954
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Walter H. Kiser papers
Wesley Chapel, New Albany, Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S2156
Identifier: S2156
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostat copies of documents related to the Wesley Chapel at New Albany, Indiana, including a circa 1840s resolution signed by committee members G.H. Harrison, Abraham Case and H.M. Dowling regarding the treatment of N. H. Cobb by Rev. Isaac Owens, a college agent for Asbury University (now DePauw University); a June 25, 1850 document regarding charges against John C. Davis for "willful falsehood" and "imprudent conduct" for which he was found guilty; and a document of...
Dates:
circa 1840s-1850
