Jay County (Ind.)

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white aerial photogrographs from 309th Observation Squadron of the United States Air Corps Reserve in Indiana ranging from 1931 to 1936 regarding counties and Civilian Conservation Corps company sites around the state. Photographs are stamped with the squadron's information and include the pilot's name and the date.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a collection of certificates, newsletters, pamphlets, postcard, and circular letters compiled by the American Legion Department of Indiana in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1943 to 1963 and undated, regarding World War II war work, conservative Americanism, and a Richmond, Indiana labor union. There are seven newsletters from the Local No. 118 union, a member of the Farm Equipment Division of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America...

Scope and Contents This collection includes Dr. Christopher Arthur’s medical account books. It also contains articles of association, by-laws, and minutes of the boards of the Equitable Accident and Mutual Aid Life Association or Portland.

Scope and Contents The collection includes 16 total items in 3 folders. Folder one includes 13 original undated political cartoon liquor advertisement cards. Twelve of the thirteen cards include advertisements of John F. Garey Wines and Liquors, Portland, Indiana; the thirteenth provides an advertisement for the publisher of the cards, A. H. Linaweaver, Findley, Ohio, posting a charge of $2 for 1000 cards. The cards also portray Folder two includes a one page original $25,000 stock certificate to Mrs. Anna Gay...

Scope and Contents This collection includes 18 poster-size boards of photographs, drawings, and maps from photographers and students in Starke, Jay, and Parke Counties in Indiana ranging from circa 1894 to 1904 regarding schools, students, teachers, superintendents, and everyday objects.

Scope and Contents This collection includes account ledgers from John Bell in New Mount Pleasant, Indiana ranging from 1839 to 1870 regarding his general store business.

Scope and Contents The collection includes two account books kept by Selma and Ella Finch for household expenses, dating from 1902 to 1911.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of various documents ranging from 1942 to 1956, relating to churches and church personalities in North Manchester, South Whitley, Fort Wayne, and Portland, Indiana. These materials include church histories, poetry, a church bulletin, letters, photographs, a roster, plus several captioned photographs clipped from newspapers. Nine of the nineteen items are newsclippings.There are also a few materials which do not pertain to Indiana, including newspaper...

Scope and Contents This collection comprises a photostatic copy of a letter from Timothy Stratton in New Mt. Pleasant, Indiana, on March 29, 1852, to Casper and Calista Ann Budd in Waveland, Indiana, regarding the changing seasons, the passage of time, his mortality and inevitable death, farming, and seances held at his house and his theories about the summoning of spirits.