Frontier and pioneer life -- Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:
John Tipton collection
Collection
Identifier: L160
Scope and Contents
The collection consists principally of Tipton’s correspondence and business papers from the period 1810-1839 in Indiana. His correspondence, including retained copies of his outgoing letters, includes letters relating to the operations of the Indiana Militia in the 1810s; and political correspondence regarding the work of the state legislature (1820s-1830s), his senatorial elections (1831, 1832), his appointments to federal office (1831-1839), and local, state, and national issues, particularly...
Dates:
1806-1858
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Tipton collection
Joseph Ballard letters
Collection — Folder S0062
Identifier: S0062
Dates:
1837-1838
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joseph Ballard letters
Joseph G. Wood "Plowshares and Powder" manuscript
Collection — Folder S2339
Identifier: S2339
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed 21 page manuscript from Joseph G. Wood presented for the Indianapolis Literary Club, October 1942, regarding the local history and folklore of Daviess and Martin Counties of Indiana. Some names are included in Wood’s narrative.
Dates:
1942
Josiah K. Lilly, Jr. letters
Collection — Folder S836
Identifier: S0836
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two letters written by Randolph G. Adams of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Josiah K. Lilly, Jr. of Indianapolis, Indiana, from February 1942, regarding two Indiana 1841 checks signed by Allen Hamilton, president of the Fort Wayne branches of the Indiana State Bank and the Allen Hamilton National Bank. Hamilton was elected to the Indiana Senate in 1859, serving one term.
Dates:
1942
Julia Ainsworth letter
Collection — Folder S009
Identifier: S0009
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter written by Julia [Ainsworth] to Desire Gallup on April 4, 1838, regarding the difficulties she is having, living on the frontier in City West, Indiana.
Dates:
1838
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Julia Ainsworth letter
Julia Cooley Altrocchi collection
Collection
Identifier: L245
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers relating to Wolves Against the Moon, including research correspondence and notes, a manuscript of the book, reviews and correspondence with Harold S. Latham and others at the Macmillan Company, the book's publisher, from the author, Julia Cooley Altrocchi, ranging from 1933 to 1958. Also included are notes and a manuscript on the Fort Dearborn massacre.
Dates:
1933-1958
Kate Milner Rabb, "A Hoosier Listening Post" clippings
Collection — Folder S2133
Identifier: S2133
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two clippings of Kate Milner Rabb's Indianapolis Star column, "A Hoosier Listening Post." The first article was published on December 29, 1928 and relates information about an old pocketbook that once belonged to Hoosier pioneer James Marshall and was given to the museum of the Washington Historical Society in Salem, Indiana by Marshall's grandson Chalres W. Kinney. Rabb describes a list of goods to be disposed of at a sale...
Dates:
1928-1929
Lasselle family photographs
Collection — Folder SP080
Identifier: SP080
Scope and Contents
This collection includes carte-de-visite and daguerreotype portrait photographs of the Lasselle family from Fort Wayne, Indiana and New Orleans, as well as unknown places, ranging from circa 1841 to 1876, depicting three of Hyacinth Lasselle's children, Charles, Stanislaus, and Marie Louise, and several descendants--Francis J. Lasselle, Sophia A. (Lasselle) Nettlehurst DeWald, Hannah Nettlehurst, Apolline Julie (possibly Blanc, b. 1860), Joseph Wilfrid Sidney Blanc (b. 1862), Mary Frances...
Dates:
circa 1841-1876
Lennie M. Berkey collection
Collection — Folder S0111
Identifier: S0111
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a 13-page, typed biography of Mary Adaline Brock, written by daughter Lennie Martin Berkey in 1941, covering Mary's life from her birth in 1858 through the Civil War period. Also included is a 2-page note written in 1943 by Lennie, with additional recollections of her mother during this time period, including a memory of Morgan's Raid during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1858-1943
Lucy Morerod Detraz collection
Collection — Folder S0357
Identifier: S0357
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an undated 11-page handwritten biography about Lucy Morerod Detraz by her niece or nephew in Indiana regarding Detraz and the history of Vevay, Switzerland Couny, Indiana.
Dates:
circa 1903-1916
