Newspaper articles
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 128 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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Robert C. Enos scrapbook
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
Found in:
Genealogy
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Robert Conalty Webber collection
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 correspondence, a diary, clippings and articles, periodicals, pamphlets, ephemera, a yearbook, a pin, and other papers from Ruth Burgess Lebo Smith, Charles H. Smith, Mildred Smith Holsworth, and members of the extended Burgess and Smith families in Indiana, the United States, Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East, ranging from 1851 to 1967 and undated, relating to their daily lives, education vocations, travels, family history, and the Methodist Episcopal Church....
Dates:
1851-1967
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Shelby County collection
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Shock family scrapbook
"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
