Furniture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Indiana Handle Company collection
Collection — Folder S3499
Identifier: S3499
Content Description
This collection includes papers and photographs from the Indiana Handle Company in Paoli, Indiana, from 1980s to 2004 regarding the activities of the company, advertisements for different products, and the organizaiton's connection to Don Mattingly, Major League Baseball player and coach.
Dates:
1980s-2004
Indiana State Museum Wooton Desks exhibit collection
Collection
Identifier: L408
Scope and Contents
Items in this collection consist largely of photocopies of original articles, catalogs, and photographs used in the research and creation of the exhibit, Wooton Patent Desks: A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place at the Indiana State Museum in 1983. Included are articles, advertisements, catalogs, and other historical information regarding the Wooton Desk Company and other contemporary furniture makers in Indiana. There is background information on...
Dates:
1850-1983
John Ott papers
Collection — Folder S1034
Identifier: S1034
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal business papers of the Ott family, receipts, price lists and inventories of furniture for the L.W. Ott Manufacturing Company, and a clipping from a German language newspaper ranging from 1864 to 1905. Related materials to this collection include three account books for Ott's furniture company, with one volume also containing his daybook of personal accounts ranging from 1858 to 1907.
Dates:
1864-1905
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Ott papers
John T. Waters collection
Collection
Identifier: L175
Scope and Contents
The collection includes account books for the Waters furniture store (1885-1891, 1904-1908) and funeral business (1875-1891); Isaac White's account of fines collected as justice of the peace (1881-1883); John T. Waters's business papers and correspondence (1882-1917), including receipts and correspondence regarding his bicycling interests (1880s-1890s), and family letters from Brownsburg, Hendricks County and Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana (1888-1889); and photocopies of Waters family papers...
Dates:
1815-1908
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John T. Waters collection
John W. Blackledge papers
Collection — Folder S126
Identifier: S0126
Scope and Contents
This collection includes bills, warrants of indenture, membership cards, newspaper clippings and other items from various sources, including T.G Blackledge, Mullen-(Albert) Blackledge Company and others in Indiana ranging from 1841 to 1913 regarding various business transactions. It also includes a membership card to the Commercial Club signed by Eli Lilly as president in 1890.
Dates:
1841-1913
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John W. Blackledge papers
Virgil Davis collection
Collection — Folder S0341
Identifier: S0341
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 5 items from Virgil Davis in Indiana ranging from 1803 to 1967, which consist of a notebook listing the deceased in Bethlehem Cemetery, people registered and not registered to vote, Baptist churches in Franklin County, Indiana, and participants in a speaker's bureau (circa 1803-1935); a program for a Jubilee meeting of Harmony Church (May 26, 1887); a binder entitled "Showalter Articles, American Legion History, Other Term Papers" containing U.S. history term papers...
Dates:
1803-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Virgil Davis collection
World's Columbian Exposition collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2124
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, lists of World's Fair furniture taken by various individuals and organizations, and an itemized statement from individuals connected to Indiana's involvement with the 1893 World's Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois ranging from 1893 to 1894 regarding Indiana State Day, various pieces of furniture, and reimbursement for representing the State at the World's Fair.There is also a proclamation for the World's Columbian Exposition...
Dates:
1893-1894
