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Lawrence County (Ind.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 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

Arcas E. Hollowell papers

 Collection — Folder S0675
Identifier: S0675
Scope and Contents This collection contains the deed for property located in Lawrence County, Indiana, purchased from Newton and Margaret Wright by Arcas E. and Nancy E. Hollowell on November 24, 1879. Also included is the statement and seal of George Bair, Recorder of Lawrence County, certifying that the deed is a true and complete copy and is dated June 9, 1933.
Dates: 1879, 1933

Beatrice White song book

 Collection — Folder S1917
Identifier: S1917
Scope and Contents This collection includes a soft-cover composition book used by Beatrice White to compile various songs and hymns starting in 1902. Along with the 31 handwritten copies of songs, the book also has a clipping of a January 21, 1917 article from the Indianapolis Star about Sarah Flowers Adams and her famous hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee." There are two additional handwritten notes by White in the back of the book, one dated May 12, 1902 that mentions it...
Dates: 1902-1917

Bedford, Indiana Courthouse Square street view panoramic photograph

 Collection — Object OBF010
Identifier: OBF010
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a black-and-white panoramic photograph taken by Long Studio of an intersection of Courthouse Square in Bedford, Indiana on May 21, 1927, showing the lengths of the two intersecting streets with numerous storefronts and parked cars, as well as a view of the historical courthouse. The intersection is most likely I Street and 15th Street.
Dates: 1927/05/21

Carroll and Mima Johnson collection

 Collection — Folder S2271
Identifier: S2271
Scope and Contents This collection contains several items from Carroll and Mima Johnson of Bedford, Indiana, including two essays written by Mary Francis Glover regarding the Jamestown Settlement (April 10, 1871) and Mammoth Cave (May 30, 1873); a circular advertisement for "Object-Lessons in Physiology," a book written by Dr. Hamilton Stillson of Bedford to help common school teachers teach physiology to beginners without a textbook (circa 1884); an envelope addressed to J. M. Johnson (May 16, 1884); a receipt...
Dates: 1871-circa 1909

Charles Bruce Millholland papers

 Collection — Folder S0966
Identifier: S0966
Scope and Contents This collection contains copies of documents used by Charles Bruce Millholland to write Limestone Town, an unpublished book he worked on while employed by the Indiana Federal Writers' Project in 1939. The documents range from 1922 to 1937 and contain quarry and mill worker wage scales; United States limestone producing areas data; and union membership, home owners' association, and economic assistance data for Lawrence and Monroe Counties. The collection also includes copies of "Origins of...
Dates: 1922-1939

Frank M. Hohenberger, Indiana State Department of Geology photograph album

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P037
Scope and Contents This collection includes a series of photographs from negatives made for the Indiana State Department of Geology during the months of September and October, 1918, in Monroe, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, Washington, Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Jefferson, Switzerland, Jennings, and Franklin counties, Indiana, by Frank W. Hohenberger, in Nashville, Indiana. The images largely depict natural sites, such as caves and rivers, but also mills, stone quarries, cemeteries, and other historic buildings.
Dates: 1918

Homer, Indiana oral history

 Collection
Identifier: OH339

Indiana Extension Homemakers Association, Lawrence County collection

 Collection
Identifier: L496
Scope and Contents This collection includes booklets of the Extension Homemakers Association, Home Demonstration Club, Lawrence County Home Economics Club, and Springville Get-Together Club from Verna Armstrong in Lawrence County, Indiana and Springville, Indiana ranging from 1935 to 1981 regarding Indiana Extension Homemakers Association, Home Demonstration Club, Lawrence County Home Economics Club, and Springville Get-Together Clubs.
Dates: 1935-1981