Wayne County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:
Denver C. Harlan papers
Collection
Identifier: L238
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, maps, photographs, real estate descriptions, recepits, college papers and class notes, legislative bills and other documents concerning legislation and politics, pamphlets, periodicals, and realia from Denver C. Harlan in Indiana and Iowa, ranging from 1866 to 1927, regarding education and college yearbook publishing, as well as careers, including map sales, census taking, realty, and law.There is also an oversize folder containing a 1910 map...
Dates:
1866-1927, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Denver C. Harlan papers
Erastus Test letter
Collection — Folder S1297
Identifier: S1297
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a letter from Erastus Test in Indiana to Ada Baldwin on July 26, 1856, mentioning how she had been missed in grammar class and other news about school.
Dates:
1856
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Erastus Test letter
Gibson Teas account book
Collection — Folder S1290
Identifier: S1290
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a transcription of an account book from Gibson Teas in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana rainging from 1853 to 1856, regarding the activities and correspondence of his business of broom and wood tool manufacturing. The account book was transcribed by R. A. Stubbs of Long Lake, Minnesota.
Dates:
1853-1856
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Gibson Teas account book
Harry Dorsey Bertsch clipping
Collection — Folder S0584
Identifier: S0584
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a clipping of Harry Dorsey Bertsch's column, "Along the Old Trail", printed in the August 15, 1930 newspaper, The Old Trails Echo (Centerville, Indiana). The article reprinted an April 6, 1838 letter written by Samuel Hannah to his sister-in-law, Mary Bishop Willetts. In the letter, Hannah relates business conditions in Centerville following the Panic of 1837 noting that "Times are very hard. Money is every day becoming scarcer so that it is next to impossible to make...
Dates:
1930/08/15
Helen Clift clippings
Collection — Folder S1183
Identifier: S1183
Scope and Contents
This collection includes forty-nine clippings of Kate Milner Rabb's Indianapolis Star newspaper column, "The Hoosier Listening Post," range from March 14, 1935 to July 25, 1935 that contain transcribed entries from diaries kept by Helen Clift of New Castle, Indiana in 1863 and 1865. Helen used her diary to record her daily chores, the weather, visitors, social activities, and other happenings in New Castle. Her 1863 diary also recorded her time teaching in Economy, Wayne County, Indiana and...
Dates:
1935
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Helen Clift clippings
Henry C. Leeson diaries
Collection — Folder 1143
Identifier: S1143
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three diaries from Henry C. Leeson of ranging from 1861 to 1864 regarding his experiences as a Union soldier during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry C. Leeson diaries
Henry Underwood Johnson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2142
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed and signed letters; typed and signed letters; typed speeches; a typed list of books of Nim Johnson and a photograph from Henry Underwood Johnson in Indiana; Washington, D.C.; and St. Louis, Missouri and ranging from 1889 to 1937 regarding family and legislative matters.
Dates:
1889-1937
Indiana Department of Natural Resources photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P038
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the photographs from Indiana Department of Natural Resources in Indiana from 1967 and undated regarding state parks, nature sites and recreation areas, historic sites, landmarks, memorials, museums, and buildings around Indiana.
Dates:
1967, undated
Indiana kindergarten photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP078
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs relating to kindergartens in Indianapolis, Mishawaka, Richmond, and Terre Haute, Indiana ranging from circa 1900 to 1925 regarding school children, some of whom were immigrants, teachers, classrooms, school activities, and buildings.
Dates:
circa 1900-1925
Isaac and Benjamin Beeson papers
Collection
Identifier: L354
Scope and Contents
This collection contains both personal and business records of Isaac W. Beeson
and Benjamin B. Beeson. There are many receipts, account sheets, order
forms and invoices for the business parts of the collection. There are also land records, indentures, deeds, and many
other legal documents. The personal portions
of the collection contain information in the form of letters, organizational meeting
minutes and notes, as well as essays written by Isaac and Benjamin about
different issues of their...
Dates:
1809-1945
