Spencer County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Lincolniana Publishers photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP171
Identifier: SP171
Scope and Contents
This collection contains reproductions of images related to Abraham Lincoln from Lincolniana Publishers in Fort Wayne, Indiana used in 1934 and ranging from circa 1860 to 1934, regarding Lincoln, his family, career, pets, residences in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., and memorials in Spencer County, Indiana, as well as illustrations and political cartoons. There are also grave sites of Lincoln's family and others.
Dates:
1934
Meeks family papers
Collection — Folder S1928
Identifier: S1928
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of land grants (photocopies), indentures and warranty deeds of the Meeks family for property in Spencer County, Indiana (1809-1869); three Civil War letters sent to John Meeks from John Sibrel (near Corinth - May 27, 1862), Elijah Ray (Memphis - August 26, 1862), and William Welch (Memphis - September 9, 1862); the bylaws of the Benjamites - Company G, 4th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Indiana Legion (November 15, 1862); a letter and list concerning supplies lost by Indiana...
Dates:
1819-1974
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Meeks family papers
Nancy Hanks Lincoln Gravesite plat map
Collection — Folder OBE018
Identifier: OBE018
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a plat map of the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Gravesite and surrounding area from the Indiana Department of Conservation, Division of Engineering, circa 1925, which shows the Spencer County memorial to Abraham Lincoln, where the log cabin stood, cemetery, and surrounding points of interest.
Dates:
circa 1925
O. V. Brown collection
Collection
Identifier: L021
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of O. V. Brown’s correspondence and other papers relating to his research on Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Civil War, southern Indiana, and Native American tribes from Indiana, ranging from 1806 to 1966. The included Civil War letters pertain to Marion Thurman, Spencer County, from family members serving the 25th and 48th Indiana regiments (1861–1865). Brown’s Abraham Lincoln research includes correspondence from 1837 to 1965, and includes speeches made by Lincoln, printed...
Dates:
1806-1966
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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O. V. Brown collection
Perry-Spencer bookmobile photograph album
Collection — Folder SP178
Identifier: SP178
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photograph album regarding the Perry-Spencer bookmobile in Perry and Spencer counties, Indiana in circa 1963, with photographs of workers, patrons, and the bookmobile at stops in Eureka, Hatfield, Mulzer Camp, Hatfiled-Winchell subdivision, Mt. Pleasant, Lawson's Service Station, and Evanston.
Dates:
circa 1963
Placidus Kempf, St. Meinrad Abbey panoramic postcard
Collection — Folder OB090
Identifier: OB090
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises an illustrated color panoramic postcard pasted to a board from Placidus Kempf at St. Meinrad Abbey in Spencer County, Indiana, circa 1920-1930. There are also three items pasted onto the board: a photograph of "Placidus Kempf, O.S.B., Librarian"; a close-up view of the abbey library with notes about the number of floors and volumes; and text indicating the location.
Dates:
circa 1920-1930
Robert D. Starrett collection
Collection — Folder S1930
Identifier: S1930
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three items related to establishment of the Lincoln Memorial Way and the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial in Indiana. The first item is a copy of the booklet The Lincoln Memorial Way Through Indiana, a published report by the commission appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie to designate the historic route of the Lincoln family through Indiana. The booklet also includes a handwritten note added by Robert D. Starrett on January 5, 1956...
Dates:
1933-1957
Ruth Hildebrant collection
Collection — Folder OB077
Identifier: OB077
Scope and Contents
This collection combines records pertaining to 2 teachers in Spencer County, Indiana. Included are a teacher's license issued to Nancy Ingram in 1865 and a teacher's contract and record book belonging to Ruth Hildebrant of Dale, Indiana.
Dates:
1865-1921
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ruth Hildebrant collection
Spencer County collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1694
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the following items related to Spencer County, Indiana: a two-page handwritten transcription by Caroline E. Pfeifer in circa 1930 of the November 20, 1884, February 5, 1885, and February 13, 1885 minutes from the Bluff City Rebekah Lodge no. 239; a clipping of "An Old Letter," an article published in The Monitor (Grandview, Ind.) on May 21, 1931 that reprinted an August 5, 1822 letter from John Morgan of Rockport to his wife,...
Dates:
1834-1943
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Spencer County collection
Thomas D. Brumett "A Short History of the Schools in the North Spencer County Area" manuscript
Collection — Folder S2558
Identifier: S2558
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten manuscript by Thomas D. Brumett titled, "A Short History of Schools in the North Spencer County Area" (July 1976). The manuscript is divided into seven sections and relates the history of the schools of Carter, Clay, Jackson, Huff, North Hammond, Grass, and Harrison Townships and the North Spencer County School Corporation. Four appendices list the names of students graduating from Dale High School (1909-1972), Gentryville High School (1915-1947), Chrisney...
Dates:
1976 July
