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Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

Robert C. Enos scrapbook

 Collection — Folder S2445
Identifier: S2445
Scope and Contents This collection contains a scrapbook kept by Robert C. Enos while living at the Indiana State Soldiers’ Home in Lafayette, Indiana. The scrapbook has newspaper clipping ranging from 1898 to 1907 and undated regarding a variety of topics, including the population growth of Indiana and the United States, the origin of place names, the business center of Indianapolis during the 1850s and 1860s, and the Soldiers' Home. A number of the clippings are related to the Civil War and the 11th Indiana...
Dates: 1864-1907, undated

Robert Conalty Webber collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-090
Scope and Contents This collection includes genealogical and local history research from Robert Conalty Webber dealing mainly with Martin and Daviess County, Indiana. His research dates from 1950 to 1996.
Dates: 1851-1996

Robert R. Engels collection

 Collection — Folder S2883
Identifier: S2883
Scope and Contents This collection includes newspaper articles, articles from periodicals, personal correspondence, poetry, and photographs ranging from 1922 to 1946 regarding the Izaak Walton League and its desire to return unproductive agricultural land within the Kankakee Marsh back to marshland.
Dates: 1922-1946

Robert Thomas Mayhill collection

 Collection — Folder S1899
Identifier: S1899
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of three items from Dr. Benjamin F. Elder: a lecture card from Starling Medical College (Columbus, Ohio) for "Lectures. Materia Medica and General Pathology" by H.L. Thull, M.D. (circa 1855-1856); a February 27, 1858 recommendation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine for Elder from the Medical College of Ohio (Cincinnati, Ohio); and a March 4, 1858 notice of appointment of Dr. Elder as a resident physician at St. John's Hospital (Cincinnati). The...
Dates: 1855-1858;1932

Roberts Settlement collection

 Collection
Identifier: L176
Scope and Contents This collection is a photostat copy of the Library of Congress collection of the same name (MMC-1624). The collection includes correspondence, indentures, free papers, business and tax receipts, deeds, family records, newspaper clippings, genealogical and other papers. The collection also includes military records relating to the Civil War and an 1832 contract to build the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana.
Dates: 1734-1944

Ruth Burgess Lebo Smith collection

 Collection
Identifier: L147
Scope and Contents The collection includes letters from Charles Smith to Ruth Lebo written from DePauw University and other places (1902-1905); Smith family correspondence (1905-1958); Ruth Lebo Smith’s diary and letters to her family from her trip to Palestine and Europe (1933); her papers and diplomas from Tipton, Indiana (1890s); newspaper and magazine articles regarding Charles Smith’s work with the Methodist Church; and letters of the Burgess family (1854-1880), particularly letters from Alexander Burgess in...
Dates: 1854-1858

Schellschmidt family biographies

 Collection — Folder S1911
Identifier: S1911
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three biographies, one of Adolph Schellschmidt, one of Berta Schellschmidt, and one of Emma Schellschmidt. Adolph's biography was cut from an unidentified publication and is dated July 10, 1897; Bertha's and Emma's biographies have both been written in pencil on two pieces of note paper (one sheet to each subject). The two remaining items in the collection are a list of names, places, and amounts, possibly for musical engagements of Adolph Schellschmidt,...
Dates: circa 1897

Shelby County collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1693
Scope and Contents This collection includes a December 6, 1827 petition to the "Gentlemen of the House of Representatives" signed by ten residents of the southeast corner of Shelby County, Indiana that requested that their part of the county be "stricken off" and attached to Decatur County; a clipping of Prof. Charles T. Powner's February 4, 1898 article from The Greensburg Standard about Doddridge Alley, the state representative of the petitioners, his bill...
Dates: 1827-1898, undated

Shock family scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1179
Scope and Contents This collection contains pages from a scrapbook kept by the Shock family of Henry County, Indiana ranging from 1921 to circa 1970s. The scrapbook pages include photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, and mementos of trips that Lorene Shock's mother, Stella Pierce, collected while traveling during the 1920s. She and a group of friends traveled to a number of cities and historic sites including Washington D.C., New York City, Gettysburg, Philadelphia, and several communities in Indiana. The...
Dates: 1921- circa 1970

"So the people may know" newspaper issue

 Collection — Folder OB144
Identifier: OB144
Scope and Contents This collection contains one issue of "So the people may know", volume 1, number 1 published in Indianapolis, Indiana in November of 1934 containing pertinent current events to Indianapolis previously published in other city newspapers.
Dates: 1934 November