Personal narratives
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
LeRoy L. Shutes collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1185
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a typewritten copy of "Diary - Eight Hundred Miles -Twenty Six Days - Covered Wagon - 1862 - Wyandott County, Ohio - Carroll County, Iowa" by Mary Alice Shutes made and copyrighted in 1967 from a copy created by Julia Curtis, Mary Alice Shutes Mallory's daughter, under the supervision of her mother. Mary Alice Shutes Mallory kept the diary, along with her stepmother, Ann, while the family traveled from Ohio to Iowa in 1862. The collection also includes copies of "Stack...
Dates:
1967-1971
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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LeRoy L. Shutes collection
Lorena M. Bumpas reminiscences pamphlet
Collection — Folder S0807
Identifier: S0807
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a copy of the document, "When Grandma Was a Little Girl," written by Lorena M. Bumpus circa 1986. Written when she was 77 years old, Mrs. Bumpus relates her experiences as a young girl growing up in Indiana. She speaks about her family, school, and everyday life during the early part of the 20th century. One story of note in her narrative is the encounter she and her father had with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Dates:
circa 1986
Mahala T. Shaw diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1171
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two sets of photocopies, one as a bound volume, of Mahala T. Shaw's 1871 diary copied from the original in the possession of Shaw's grandniece, Mrs. Roy F. (Esther) Gregg. In the diary, Shaw recounts her daily activities while living in Battle Ground, Indiana and includes names of family and friends who visited, shopping, books, gardening, household chores, and church and social activities. There is also a copy of a January 25, 1874 letter sent to Shaw from her niece...
Dates:
1871-1874
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mahala T. Shaw diary
