Elkhart (Ind.)

Scope and Contents This collection contains one double-sided advertisement for the Art Printing Company of Elkhart, Indiana, specifically for funeral prayer and memorial cards around the 1890s.

Scope and Contents This collection contains one letter and one envelope from the C. G. Conn Ltd. Musical instrument manufacturer in Elkhart and dated March 17, 1921. The letter is addressed to Mr. Ross E. Moore, Hutsonville, Illinois, and has no personal signature. It is stamped “C. G. Conn, Ltd.” The company employee enclosed the price list for cases, as Mr. Moore had requested. This price list is not included in this collection. On the back of the letter are photos of band leaders including several women. In...

Scope and Contents This collection includes the following documents related to Elkhart County, Indiana: photostat copies of a poll list and tally sheet from the election of town trustees held on May 4, 1846 at Goshen; an agreement between C.W. Stevens and George D. Copeland and Myron E. Cole regarding the sale of the Goshen Times and a list of advanced payments of subscribers of the newspaper from June 1862; a July 24, 1897 letter sent to George Leonard Chaney of Leominster,...

Scope and Contents This collection includes one volume from George B. Dausman in Indiana ranging from 1862 to 1863 regarding Civil War regimental history.

Scope and Contents The folder and bound volume contain the same letters written by George B. Dausman from July 26, 1862 until February 18, 1863. After his last letter, there are three additional letters written in March 1863. On March 5, Jo. W. Snider wrote to his sister to tell her that her son George was sick at Murfreesborough, Tennessee. He wrote that “Bent cannot live long. The disease is the result of sleeping on the damp ground.”On March 12, Amanda Dausman wrote to “Mr. and Mrs. Bickel, Dear...

Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopied volume pages from The Little Elkhart Temperance Society in Elkhart, Indiana ranging from 1847 to 1853, regarding the constitution, records, and member subscriptions for the society. The originals are located at the Elkhart County Historical Society.

Scope and Contents This collection includes photographic prints and negatives of postcards from Lowell Nussbaum in Indiana ranging from circa 1910 to 1930s regarding Indianapolis buildings, street scenes and surrounding Indiana cities.

Scope and Contents This collection includes insurance policies, typed and signed personal correspondence, receipts, birth and baptism certificates, marriage certificates, photographs, diaries, Confederate States of America currency, other personal and legal documents and titles and land deeds from various individuals in Indiana ranging from 1849 to 1967.Notably, it contains a series of correspondences from William and Lucille Marlow, love letters and detailing their travels in 1935.The...