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Fort Wayne (Ind.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Northeast Indiana Diversity Library collection

 Collection
Identifier: L747
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the records and collections of the Northeast Indiana Diversity Library (NIDL) from Fort Wayne, Indiana, a non-profit organization that served the local LGBTQ community, documented its history, and collected books, periodicals, pamphlets, manuscript collections, ephemera, and other items relating to the queer experience. The dates for the materials range from 1919 to 2023.Record group 1 contains the financial and organizational documents of the Northeast...
Dates: 1919-2023

Office of Indian Affairs collection

 Collection
Identifier: L443
Scope and Contents This collection contains photostats of letters copied from the records of the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs and the Office of Indian Trade housed at the National Archives. Ranging from 1815 to 1821, the bulk of the collection is correspondence sent and received by Michigan territorial governor, Lewis Cass, regarding the Michigan superintendency. Major issues discussed are the licensing of British subjects for trade with the Indians, the distribution of annuities established by Indian treaties...
Dates: 1815-1821

Paul "Mike" Burns letter

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1370
Scope and Contents This collection contains the letter to Paul "Mike" Burns informing him of induction into the Sagamores of the Wabash. The typed letter, dated December 16, 1964, is from Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh.

The collection also includes the Sagamore of the Wabash award (OB210)
Dates: 1964

R. Starkweather collection

 Collection — Folder S1240
Identifier: S1240
Scope and Contents The letter is date-stamped September 27 from Fort Wayne, and is addressed to A. Van Nechten, Esq., Catskill Greene County, New York. The letter was written by R. Starkweather on September 26, 1838, from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Starkweather told Mr. Van Nechten that: "Your lands are scattered through the country from Napoleon, Ohio, to Lafayette, Ind., a distance of 175 miles and about 40 in breadth to embrace them all." At the bottom of page one, Mr. Starkweather made a chart for lots and...
Dates: 1838

Robert E. Roempke collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-087
Scope and Contents This collection includes genealogical research, family group sheets, correspondence, and photographs from Robert Roempke in Germany and Indiana ranging from 1897 to 1999 regarding the Roempke, Saffell and other allied families. There is also a catalog from A. E. Saffell Chair Co. and a pamphlet about James Whitcomb Riley.
Dates: 1897 - 1999

Robert S. Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: L563
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence and papers from Robert S. Taylor in Indiana, ranging from 1860 to 1918 with the bulk of the materials covering the 1870s-1910s. The papers mostly consist of Taylor’s legal correspondence with an emphasis on his patent cases. Among these materials is correspondence regarding patent cases involving the Fort Wayne Electric Company, Westinghouse, General Electric, American Bell Telephone Company, and various other companies and utilities. The...
Dates: 1860-1918, undated

Roche family papers

 Collection — Folder S1806
Identifier: S1806
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eleven letters within the Roche family. Most of the letters are addressed either “Dear Brother” or “Dear Sister”. All of the letters are handwritten and discuss family business as well as local events. They cover a variety of different topics and reflect life in the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s.
Dates: 1838-1852

Ross A. Howey, Gulf War photographs

 Collection — Folder S2948
Identifier: S2948
Scope and Contents This collection includes 30 photographs taken by Specialist Howey, a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, in Iraq and near Rafha, Saudi Arabia during and after the Persian Gulf War.
Dates: 1990-1991

"Sketches of Western Adventure: Comprising a Biographical Narrative of the Life of Jacob Upp" manuscript

 Collection — Folder S1333
Identifier: S1333
Scope and Contents This photocopied, 30-page manuscript tells the story of a father and son, Jacob and John Upp, who were both captured by Indians. The original manuscript was created in 1851.

An accompanied affidavit certifies the item as an exact and true copy of the original book, signed "Lula Fisher" on May 10, 1935.
Dates: 1935

"Views of a Few of the Catholic Institutions of Indiana" photograph album

 Collection — Volume P079
Identifier: P079
Scope and Contents This volume is a photograph album of 3 Catholic schools in Indiana: St. Augustine's Academy, St. Mary's Academy, and St. Joseph's College. The photographs range from circa 1889 to circa 1910.
Dates: circa 1889-1910