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Indiana -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 138 Collections and/or Records:

Robert M. Taylor, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: L469
Scope and Contents The collection contains personal correspondence of various family members, receipts related to properties the Y.W.C.A. owned and operated; a genealogical sketch of the Taylor family’s history, minutes of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society meetings, various broadsides, a single poll book from 1930 that lists voters and their political affiliation, and papers and scrapbooks of the Indianapolis branch of the Y.W.C.A.
Dates: 1868-1971

Robert S. Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: L563
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence and papers from Robert S. Taylor in Indiana, ranging from 1860 to 1918 with the bulk of the materials covering the 1870s-1910s. The papers mostly consist of Taylor’s legal correspondence with an emphasis on his patent cases. Among these materials is correspondence regarding patent cases involving the Fort Wayne Electric Company, Westinghouse, General Electric, American Bell Telephone Company, and various other companies and utilities. The...
Dates: 1860-1918, undated

Roger D. Branigin papers

 Collection
Identifier: S0159
Scope and Contents This collection includes memoranda, letters and a handwritten speech from Roger D. Branigin and others in Indiana ranging from 1965/03/25 to 1966/10/27 regarding a school play, budgetary matters, a contract and a speech concerning waterways in Indiana and Kentucky.
Dates: 1965-1966

Roscoe B. Fleming collection

 Collection — Folder S0472
Identifier: S0472
Scope and Contents This collection has one folder containing "The Story of Indiana" by Roscoe B. Fleming. This is a six-part article about the Ku Klux Klan and prohibition in Indiana politics in the 1920s. He gives a brief biography of D.C. Stephenson, the Grand Dragon of Indiana’s Ku Klux Klan, and his stakes amongst the political elite of the city and state including Governor Ed Jackson, and Indianapolis Mayor John L. Duvall. Fleming discusses Edward S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League...
Dates: 1927 October

Russell family appointment certificates

 Collection — Folder OB189
Identifier: OB189
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of appointment certificates for James and Alexander Russell dated from 1849 to 1852.
Dates: 1849-1852

Sam B. Woods papers

 Collection
Identifier: L181
Scope and Contents This collection includes autographed and signed and typed and signed correspondence from various people in the United States; typed, carbon copies and autographed articles from Bartlett and Sam B. Woods in Lake County, Indiana; typed foreward to book, "First Hundred Years of Lake County by Sam B. Woods; articles and addresses written by various people in the United States; newspaper articles and complete issues of newspapers; a typed and autographed list of members of the House of...
Dates: 1848-1941; undated

Senora C. Moon paper

 Collection — Folder S0977
Identifier: S0977
Scope and Contents The collection contains a three-page paper describing an 1860 Lincoln rally at Warsaw, Indiana. On September 25, 1860, Senora rode on a float in Warsaw, Indiana, twelve miles from Milford where she lived. Senora carried the white flag for New York, because that was the home state of her grandmother, Abigail Egbert. She and the other girls were told to stand up, when given a signal, and shout: “Rah for Lincoln and Hamlin.”Senora’s father, Dr. Edward Higbee, was a Republican, an...
Dates: 1936

Stephen Moberly collection

 Collection
Identifier: L109
Scope and Contents The collection contains photostat material relating to Indiana politics: research, campaign comparisons, reports, newspaper clippings, correspondence, polls, and lobbying research that promotes Republican views and politicians. The collection also includes Stephen C. Moberly's personal calendar for 1974.
Dates: 1970-1973

The Seed Sower clippings

 Collection — Folder S1952
Identifier: S1952
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of articles printed in the supplement of The Seed Sower in 1894. The articles include a list of the Prohibition Party candidates for state offices, the Indiana State Prohibition platform adopted on March 15, 1894, the address given by Chairman P. T. McWhirter at the State Prohibition Convention on March 15th, and the article, "How to Lose a Vote."
Dates: 1894

Thomas A. Hendricks papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0635
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of Thomas A. Hendricks’ correspondence as well as a few receipts and checks ranging from 1825 to 1885 in Indiana. A speech given by his nephew Thomas at a Thomas A. Hendricks Memorial Celebration at Thomas A. Hendricks School in Shelbyville, Indiana is also included. There are also oversize memorial resolutions passed upon Thomas A. Hendricks' death and other certificates, 1885 and undated (OBD005).Correspondents include William English,...
Dates: 1825-1949, bulk 1873-1879