Personal narratives
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:
John Cashner diary
Collection — Folder S3049
Identifier: S3049
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a photocopied transcription of a Civil War Era diary maintained by John Cashner during his time with Company E of the 13th Indiana Infantry Regiment. The diary begins on November 3rd, 1861 and journal entries go up to May 29th, 1862. Generally, there is a brief entry for every single day detailing the salient events that happened on that day. Topics covered include winter encampments, picket duty, items that were purchased and/or retrieved and daily camp life among...
Dates:
1861-1862
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Cashner diary
John G. Clark papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1839
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of five folders, with the first four containing business records of John G. Clark ranging from 1856 to 1878. The bulk of the collection consists of documents related to land purchased by Clark located near Humboldt, Eureka, and Wyandotte, Kansas and Beatrice and Brownsville, Nebraska that was originally obtained by states as part of the Agricultural College Act (the Morrill Land Grant College Act) of July 2, 1862. Other records include two bank deposit books,...
Dates:
1856-1926
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John G. Clark papers
John H. Towner collection
Collection — Folder S1317
Identifier: S1317
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three copies of an account from John H. Towner in Indiana--including a bound photostat, loose photostats, and xeroxed pages of the preface and first chapter--regarding his trip to the California Gold Rush during 1849-1850. The last entry is about his visit to the Art Union gallery in Cincinnati and the Greek slave statue, which was on exhibit there.
Dates:
1849-1850
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John H. Towner collection
John Nipp, Sr. reminiscences
Collection — Folder S2197
Identifier: S2197
Scope and Contents
This collection has the original handwritten, three-page draft as well as the two-page typed transcript of John Nipp Sr.'s reminiscences written on December 24, 1935, with a description of the old log schoolhouse circa 1855-1856 in Washington Township, Rush County, Indiana.
Dates:
1935 December 24
John P. Hetherington memoirs
Collection — Folder S0647
Identifier: S0647
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a memoir from John P. Hetherington in Logansport, Indiana, in 1934 regarding his research and development of x-ray imaging.
Dates:
1934
John P. Robinson collection
Collection — Folder S1130
Identifier: S1130
Scope and Contents
This 11-page typed manuscript gives John P. Robinson's memories of the Philippine Insurrection in 1899. Page 10 gives a summary of the experience, beginning with the organization of Company L, 4th U.S. Infantry at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, on October 20, 1898. The company left for New York on January 15, 1899, and shipped out on the 19th. They saw Gibralter, Port Said, Suez Canal, Perim Island, Ceylon Island, Singapore, and finally Manila on March 9th, having traveled a total distance from...
Dates:
1898-1899
John Parks collection
Collection — Folder S1275
Identifier: S1275
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two copy books and a ciphering book with the name John Parks, dated 1834. Also included is an 1886 "Indiana State Almanac and Household Guide" published by Wells, Richardson and Company. The owner wrote in pencil the temperature and weather for some of the dates and made entries such as: July 13, "first tomatoes," and October 4, "moving." On the inside front cover is a small map of Indiana with statistics from the 1880 census. The printed pages contain folk remedies and...
Dates:
1834-1886
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Parks collection
John Tenbrook Campbell papers
Collection
Identifier: L258
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, biographical sketches, a photograph, two scrapbooks, and various writings including editorials, essays, addresses, and poems from John Tenbrook Campbell in Parke County, Indiana and the United States, ranging from circa 1840 to 1911 and undated, regarding his family life and career, military experiences during the U.S. Civil War, business concerning roads and levees, intellectual interests and social concerns, and the...
Dates:
1840-1911, undated
Joshua Lewis reminiscences
Collection — Folder S0861
Identifier: S0861
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a typewritten copy of Joshua Lewis's reminiscences that he wrote in February of 1905. The manuscript was dedicated to James Madison Lewis and the copy was made September 11, 1952 for Harold Lewis. In the manuscript, Lewis relates biographical information and his experiences serving with Company H, 20th Indiana Infantry during the U.S. Civil War. Some of the battles he describes include his eyewitness account of the March 8-9, 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads, also know as...
Dates:
1952/09/11
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joshua Lewis reminiscences
LaGrange County collection
Collection — Folder S1683-01
Identifier: S1683
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three items from LaGrange County, Indiana, including an undated advertising card for the Lima Manufacturing Company's Queen windmill in Lima, Indiana (currently Howe); a short, typed history of the LaGrange courthouse of 1843 and an account of a gavel made of the wood from the 1843 courthouse, which the LaGrange de Lafayette chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) returned to LaGrange County, after 1923; and a seven-page, typed narrative by Dan Wisel...
Dates:
1843-1934
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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LaGrange County collection
