Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
John Karl Bain scrapbook
Collection — Volume V067
Identifier: V067
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a scrapbook created by J. Karl Bain in the United States ranging from 1899 to 1921, containing items he collected while serving as secretary to Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. The scrapbook primarily has newspaper clippings and mementos, which concern: a trip to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska with Fairbanks for the Joint High Commission (Summer, 1899); debate between Senators Beveridge and Hoar regarding the "Philippine Situation" (January 1900); the...
Dates:
1899-1921
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Karl Bain scrapbook
John M. Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: L596
Scope and Contents
This collection includes booklets, letters, photographs, maps, tintypes, newspaper clippings and realia from John M. Smith's personal collection ranging from 1790 to 1997 regarding Indiana history.
Dates:
1804-1982
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John M. Smith collection
Joseph Marshall Francis collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2262
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several items of Joseph and Kate Francis from the time they lived in Japan in the 1890s, including a letter, an unused postcard, a newspaper and several telegrams written in Japanese. A few of the items are dated, including a February 10, 1894 postcard written in English by Kate Francis and sent to Mrs. C. M. Stevens of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; a housing contract for the summer of 1896 written in Japanese; and several tickets for a charity bazaar that was held in April...
Dates:
1927
Komanisuke Kumagai letters
Collection — Folder S2890
Identifier: S2890
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the photostat copies and transcripts of a 25-foot scroll of letters from Komanisuke Kumagai letters in Indiana and the United States to Mrs. McClelland in Crawfordsville, Indiana during his travels lecturing on Japanese culture during April-June, 1889.
Dates:
1889/04/26-1889/06/01
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Komanisuke Kumagai letters
Mary Elizabeth Moody collection
Collection
Identifier: L713
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 6 photograph albums and 3 scrapbooks, containing photographs, papers, pamphlets, postcards, souvenirs, currency, and ephemera, created by Betty Goodale Moody in Indiana, Florida, around the United States, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt, ranging from circa 1936 to 2015, regarding her personal and family life, friends, and travels within the United States and the Middle East. There are also miscellaneous photographs whose subjects were identified by Moody and her...
Dates:
circa 1936-2015
Mrs. Paul Seehausen collection
Collection — Folder S1163
Identifier: S1163
Scope and Contents
The collection includes typed copies of two items, 23 pages total. The first item includes two letters written by Benjamin Franklin Sibert, Company A, Ninety-third Indiana Regiment, to his mother, Rebecca Sibert, in July of 1863 during the Siege of Vicksburg. The letters, consisting of 11 pages, indicated that Sibert was stationed at Camp Bear Creek, fifteen miles from Vicksburg, Mississippi. The letters mention Generals Sherman and Joe Sherman, as well as his comrades John M....
Dates:
1863, 1891
Oliver P. Davis family correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3478
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostats of correspondence of Oliver P. (O.P.) Davis and his family. The correspondence from 1846 to 1861 includes letters written by Davis to his wife Eliza during his travels for business and while he was in Indianapolis during the Indiana Constitution Convention and his service in the Indiana Senate; three letters from Congressman Edward W. McGaughey; and letters sent by Davis to the Oldridge family. The correspondence from 1864 to 1868 conisists of...
Dates:
1846-1899, circa 1927
Robert K. Kyle photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P006
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from Robert K. Kyle in Indiana ranging from circa 1867 to 1978 regarding Kyle's daily life, family, work, recreational activities, and retirement.
Dates:
circa 1867-1978
Samuel Humphreys papers
Collection — Folder S702
Identifier: S0702
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photostat copy of an autographed, signed letter from Samuel Humphreys in New Harmony, Indiana on 1836/07/18 regarding life and persons in New Harmony.
Dates:
1836/07/18
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Samuel Humphreys papers
Sarah Ann Quarles Chandler collection
Collection — Folder S0249
Identifier: S0249
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a transcript of the diary Chandler kept while moving to Missouri. She documents the sights and experiences of the trip through Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. The diary ends in St. Louis, although the Chandlers eventually settled near Boonville, Missouri.
Dates:
1836
