Kosciusko County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
309th Observation Squad, United States Air Corps Reserve, Indiana aerial photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P069
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white aerial photogrographs from 309th Observation Squadron of the United States Air Corps Reserve in Indiana ranging from 1931 to 1936 regarding counties and Civilian Conservation Corps company sites around the state. Photographs are stamped with the squadron's information and include the pilot's name and the date.
Dates:
1931-1936
Ann V. Hammer photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP161
Identifier: SP161
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from Ann V. Hammer in Indiana ranging from 1946 to 1954 and undated, regarding the courthouse tree in Greensburg, Indiana Dunes State Park, Webster Lake in Kosciusko County, Lake Wawasee and the South Shore Inn in Syracuse, and a possible camp at Rivervale, Lawrence County. There are also postcards Grouseland in Vincennes, Mac's Famous Barbeuce in Evansville, Indiana Dunes State Park, and Hotel Van Orman and downtown Fort Wayne. An undated advertising item...
Dates:
1946-1954, undated
David C. Turnbull collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3508
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, business and legal documents relating to Kosciusko County (1836–1849), St. Joseph County (1847–1916), and other counties, and photocopies of Civil War letters (1861–1865) from David C. Turnbull in Indiana and the United States. The correspondence of Alexander Grant of Cass County, Michigan (1871–1875); the Bidwell family of Niles, Michigan and Brownsville, Texas (1937–1940); and the Ackerman family of Niles (1940–1947) are also cinluded. There are also...
Dates:
1836-1966
Horan family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0682
Scope and Contents
This collection includes family letters from Ireland (1825-1840); letters of introduction for Horan written by Irish businessmen to acquaintances in the the United States (1836); tax receipts, merchant licenses, a will, naturalization papers, and other papers of Michael and Mary Horan from Kosciusko County, Indiana (1837-1858); Civil War veterans' papers and pension papers of Hiram F. Berst (1863-1888); Berst's certificates from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Patriarchal Circle and the...
Dates:
1825-1888
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Horan family papers
Joseph Fifer papers
Collection — Folder S461
Identifier: S0461
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed letters from William Gebhart, Henry and Mary Waidley in Miamisburg[h], Ohio and C. Johnson in Nashville, Tennessee and a tax receipt from Kosciusko County, Indiana ranging from 1842 to 1862 regarding family matters.
Dates:
1842-1862
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Joseph Fifer papers
Josiah H. Hamman and Emma J. Hamman indenture
Collection — Folder S2736
Identifier: S2736
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an indenture from Emereth E. Luse and Henry P. Hardie in Madison County, Indiana from 1916 regarding land in Kosciusko County, Indiana.
Dates:
1916
Kosciusko County collection
Collection — Folder S1682-01
Identifier: S1682
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two items from Kosciusko County, Indiana, comprising a small advertising card for an attorney and land agent, James H. Carpenter, in Warsaw, Indiana and a two-page, typed letter from George A. Nye, a math teacher from Warsaw, Indiana to Christopher Coleman, the Indiana State Library director, circa 1917-1918, regarding the position offerred to Nye. The letter also lists the articles he wrote, mostly regarding Warsaw, in the preceding 25 years and makes mention of the...
Dates:
circa 1870s-1918
Mary M. Jackson school signature book
Collection — Folder S2904
Identifier: S2904
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a small autograph book dated 1936 with signatures of teacher Mary M. Jackson's students and co-workers of Winona Lake Training School, in Kosciusko County, Indiana. The book also includes a newspaper clipping of an automobile crash near Kirklin, Clinton County, Indiana.
Dates:
1936
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Senora C. Moon paper
Spink-Wawasee Hotel and Country Club pamphlet
Collection — Folder S3448
Identifier: S3448
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one informational pamphlet about the Spink-Wawasee Hotel and Country Club on Lake Wawasee in Indiana created circa 1938.
Dates:
1938
