Pageants
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Dubois County collection
Collection — Folder S1659
Identifier: S1659
Scope and Contents
This collection includes historical notes compiled by George Pence and copied by George R. Wilson in May 1921 regarding laws passed from 1817 to 1852 related to Dubois County, Indiana; a script and instructions for the settings and publicity of the Dubois County Pageant from the 1950s; 8 prints of original watercolors painted by Mary Anne Nordhoff, a native of Dubois County, and printed for a special souvenir 25th anniversary section of the October 7, 1971 Dubois...
Dates:
1921-2019
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Dubois County collection
Ernestine Fisher papers
Collection — Folder S466
Identifier: S0466
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed and commercially printed documents from Ernestine Fisher in Indiana from circa 1947 regarding children's plays and critiques.
Dates:
1947
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ernestine Fisher papers
George S. Cottman papers
Collection
Identifier: L039
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, research, newspaper articles and drafts of speeches, and articles from George S. Cottman in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1872 to 1937 regarding Indiana history, business and family business, and articles by other writers concerning history.
Dates:
1857-1937, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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George S. Cottman papers
Grace Methodist Church, "Out of the Wilderness" centennial pageant script
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2154
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two copies of the script for "Out of the Wilderness," a pageant staged on October 19, 1944 in the Grace Methodist Church auditorium in Kokomo, Indiana. The pageant includes six episodes that present the past, present and future of the church as told by "Eagerheart" to "Methodism."
Dates:
1944
Hancock County collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1669
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several items related to Hancock County, Indiana, including teacher's reports from the nine schools in Buck Creek Township, signed and dated from February to March 1869; photocopies of a record book keep by the trustee of Brandywine Township, with entries regarding payments made for stock killed by dogs from 1866 to 1870 and entries about township roads ranging from 1869 to 1873; a photocopy of a May 1, 1946 letter sent to the Greenfield Public Library by Charles L....
Dates:
1866-1966
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hancock County collection
Indiana centennial pageant photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP127
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs of 4 pageants celebrating Indiana's centennial in Knox, Spencer, and Parke counties and at Earlham College in 1916.
Dates:
1916
Indianapolis Centennial Committee collection
Collection
Identifier: L322
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a fragmented bound volume of correspondence, papers, pamphlets, photographs, financial records, reports, advertisements, and parade float number placards from the Indianapolis Centennial Committee in Indiana, ranging from November 17, 1919 to July 3, 1920, regarding the planning and organization of the six-day celebration held by the committee. The volume, entitled "Correspondence and Papers of Indianapolis Centennial Committee, 1919-1920," was apparently bound by the...
Dates:
1919-1920
Moore and Johnston family photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P020
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, photographic postcards, and glass plate negatives from Bertha B. Johnston, Alma Turner Moore, and Beatrice J. Johnston in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1871 to 1934 and undated, regarding the Johnston, Moore, Turner, and James families and their daily lives. There are also a few other items including: an Otis Turner's Attractions advertising sheet; an article titled "The Great Birthday Party" which includes photographs by Clyde T. Moore; and a...
Dates:
1871-1934, undated
"One Hundred Years of Methodism in Kendallville" pageant script
Collection — Folder S2157
Identifier: S2157
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of "One Hundred Years of Methodism in Kendallville: An Historical Pageant of the First Methodist Church, Kendallville, Indiana," a pageant written by Paul Warren Ashby in 1955. Along with the complete pageant script, the collection also includes a second copy of the prologue pages and a copy of the program.
Dates:
1955
Otho Winger "The White Rose of the Miamis" pageant
Collection — Folder S2334
Identifier: S2334
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an original typed manuscript from Otho Winger of Manchester College, Indiana, dated October 19, 1937, regarding his pageant, "The White Rose of the Miamis, A Pageant Portraying the Remarkable Life of Frances Slocum." The collection also includes a letter to Christopher B. Coleman, director of the Indiana Historical Bureau, signed by Otho Winger, October 19, 1937, and an original playbill pamphlet of "The White Rose of the Miamis", dated September 17, 1937.
Dates:
1937
