Canals
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Canals collection
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ewing family collection
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Walter H. Kiser papers
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 bills of lading
Collection — Folder S2631
Identifier: S2631
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two original bills of lading from W. C. Davis and Co. to James O'Hair of Laurel, Indiana during October and December, 1849, for the shipping of cooking stoves, sheet iron, stove pots, and a stove plate.
Dates:
1849 October-December
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
