Agriculture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Elizabeth J. Roby papers
Collection — Folder S625
Identifier: S0625
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of family letters primarily written to Elizabeth J. Roby, a resident of Salem, Washington County, Indiana from her cousins, William and Agnes Scott, of Smyrna, Iowa and from other family living in Xenia, Illinois ranging from 1855 to 1868 regarding farm life and family news. Also included in the collection are some of the original envelopes with postage stamps, two receipts, and an envelope with scraps of dress goods.
Dates:
1855-1868
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Elizabeth J. Roby papers
Farm horses lantern slides
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P024
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 36 undated glass lantern slides from Indiana regarding horses, most of which are farm horses pulling non-mechanized farm equipment. Two slides depict certificates from the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board. Most likely, these slides were used in a presentation.
Dates:
20th century
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Farm horses lantern slides
George Harlan patent certificate
Collection — Folder OBC004
Identifier: OBC004
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a document certifying that George Harlan’s application for a patent for an improvement that he made to a corn drill was approved on April 30, 1861.
Dates:
1861/04/30
George K. Marshall collection
Collection — Folder S906
Identifier: S0906
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from George Marshall in Cass County, Indiana ranging from 1888 to 1892.
Dates:
1888-1892
Gilbert Hutton collection
Collection
Identifier: L452
Scope and Contents
This collection includes newspapers, photographs, letters, certificate, and map from Gilbert Hutton in the Pacific front during World War II ranging from 1944 to 1953 regarding military life. Three copies of the "Instrument of Surrender of the Japanese Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters" to the United States Army and Allied Forces in Tokyo, Japan and the Philippines on September 2-3, 1945 are included in the collection. There are also six 16 mm film reels he made or...
Dates:
1944-1953, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Gilbert Hutton collection
Homer E. Capehart papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: L650
Dates:
1944-1963
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Homer E. Capehart papers
Indiana inventors and patent list of 1862
Collection — Folder S2766
Identifier: S2766
Dates:
1862-1863
Indianapolis aviation and family small photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP170
Identifier: SP170
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a positive print of film negatives and many of the film negatives of miscellanous portraits of men and women including Civil War soldiers, group snapshots, airplanes, an aerial view, a city street view, and agricultural scenes, ranging from circa 1861 to 1919 and undated.
Dates:
circa 1861-1919, undated
J. D. Adams and Company records
Collection
Identifier: L390
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of three parts. One part is that of annual, financial and various other business reports. This portion holds annual reports from 1929 until 1957, as well as other business records. The second portion of the collection are photocopies of photographs and pictures illustrating the company, its employees and machines from around 1932 until 1974. The last part of the collection consists of the catalogs that the company used to aid their salespeople and guide buyers...
Dates:
1929-1977
John Collett collection
Collection — Folder S211
Identifier: S0211
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter from the faculty of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana to United States President James A. Garfield on March 7, 1881 regarding endorsing State Geologist John Collett for the Commission of Agriculture.
Dates:
1881
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Collett collection
