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Canals

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Allen County oversize collection

 Collection — Folder OB158
Identifier: OB158
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials related to the early history of Allen County including a copy of the 1850 census schedule 5, products of industry for Wayne Township in Allen County and a copy of a legal document pertaining to a county land purchase for the purpose of creating a canal.
Dates: circa 1831-1850

Canals collection

 Collection
Identifier: S1494
Scope and Contents This collection includes text written by Lee Ault and L.S. Bowman ranging from 1900 to 1941 regarding Indiana canals, particularly the Whitewater and Central Canals.
Dates: 1849-1941; undated

Christian Schrader collection

 Collection
Identifier: L573
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, pencil drawings, negatives, 35mm slides, and family photographs from Christian Schrader in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1842 to 1987, regarding Schrader’s family, friends, and early Indianapolis. Schrader includes rough dates for the subjects he depicts in the drawings, but many of them were created from his recollections later in life. There are also oversize drawings (OBE017).Negatives are available for most of the drawings. In...
Dates: 1842-1987

Ewing family collection

 Collection
Identifier: L323
Scope and Contents This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and...
Dates: 1818-1889

Indiana Division of State Parks canal boat correspondence and drawings

 Collection — Folder S2405
Identifier: S2405
Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of an April 2, 1963 letter sent by Librarian John L. Lochhead of the Mariners Museum (Newport News, Virginia) to Robert D. Starrett, Supervisor of State Memorials, Indiana Division of State Parks. The letter was in response to Starrett's interest in a design for a canal boat and mentions that the museum could reproduce for him the plans for a canal boat believed to have been used on an Ohio canal that were printed in George W. Rogers's ...
Dates: 1845, 1963

Indianapolis dry canal photograph collection

 Collection — Folder SP022
Identifier: SP022
Scope and Contents This collection includes copies of photographs on computer paper and one CD-R disc containing digital photographs from John Hale in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 12, 2008 regarding the cleaning and draining of the central canal in Indianapolis.
Dates: 2008/03/12

Walter H. Kiser papers

 Collection — Folder S2276
Identifier: S2276
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of research papers from Walter H. Kiser, including a typewritten transcription of "Aaron Burr's Canal Project at the Falls of the Ohio," an essay read by John H. Stotsenburg before the Clark County Historical Society in December 1904, and typewritten histories of various steamboats built in New Albany, Indiana, transcribed from Way's Steamboat Directory (1944), Way's Directory of Western...
Dates: 1862-1954

Whitewater Canal Association minutes

 Collection — Folder S2329
Identifier: S2329
Scope and Contents This collection includes a three-page copy of the minutes from Whitewater Canal Association at the Hotel Lincoln in Brookville, Indiana on December 13, 1941 regarding the restoration of the Whitewater Canal. Meeting discussion revolved around the impact of World War II on efforts to restore portions of the canal.
Dates: 1941 December 13

Whitewater Canal collection

 Collection — Folder S2328
Identifier: S2328
Scope and Contents This collection includes materials from Charles Wesler of Batesville, Indiana ranging from 1829 to 1949, regarding the construction and restoration of the Whitewater Canal. Items in the collection are a 7-page original typed historical narrative titled, “Who Pioneered in the Reconstruction of the White Water Canal?”; a 14-page appendix of subject matter relevant to the history of the Whitewater Canal; 26 original bills and receipts from merchant George Tousey of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, relevant...
Dates: 1829-1949

Yandes family papers

 Collection — Folder S1479
Identifier: S1479
Scope and Contents This collection includes letters from the Yandes family in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, and Cuba ranging from 1833 to 1891 regarding local and family news, women's education, business, the Indiana State House, national and local politics, and the Civil War. Mary Yandes' letter to Ann Hampson on July 15, 1837 mentions Zerelda Gray Sanders' marriage to Governor David Wallace of Indiana (one year prior). There are also trade cards for Yandes family businesses in Indianapolis, Indiana, two blank greeting...
Dates: 1833-1891