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Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 228 Collections and/or Records:

Harry B. Dynes collection

 Collection
Identifier: L256
Scope and Contents The collection comprises correspondence, programs, papers, clippings, periodicals, pamphlets, ribbons, broadsides, ephemera, and loose scrapbook pages from Harry B. Dynes in Indianapolis, Indiana and Washington, D.C., ranging from 1873 to 1954 and undated, regarding the Dynes family's political and social lives; club and union activities; the visit of David Lloyd-George to Indianapolis (1923); a 1927 Indianapolis trolley-truck accident; and the first and second world wars. Much of...
Dates: 1873-1945

Harry Guyer Leslie collection

 Collection — Folder S0824
Identifier: S0824
Scope and Contents This collection contains a December 18, 1928 certificate from the Purdue Association of Indianapolis recognizing Harry G. Leslie as on honorary member and a 3 x 5-inch card announcing the death of Governor Leslie on December 10, 1937. The card includes information about the funeral service and was sent to an individual who was requested to be an honorary pall bearer.
Dates: 1928-1937

Harry S. New collection

 Collection
Identifier: L299
Scope and Contents The majority of the collection consists of Harry S. New’s correspondence regarding state and national politics, particularly the 1912, 1920, and 1924 presidential elections. Correspondence also includes discussion of his work as U.S. postmaster general (1923-1929). New added several notes throughout the collection (written in the early 1930s) that provide contextual background and significance of correspondence. New also provided his reminiscences of the 1896, 1908, and 1912 presidential...
Dates: 1869-1938

Henry A. Barnhart collection

 Collection
Identifier: L597
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of Henry A. Barnhart's business and political correspondence, including his correspondence as owner of the Rochester Sentinel regarding operational costs, advertising, paper's editorials and news stories, and the Northern Indiana Editorial Association (1890s-1906); his correspondence as president of the Rochester Telephone Company regarding operational costs, rates and regulations of the telephone industry, employee relations,...
Dates: 1866-1965

Homer E. Capehart papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: L650

Hugh Arthur Barnhart collection

 Collection
Identifier: L509
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, periodicals, advertisements, and financial records from Hugh A. Barnhart ranging from 1898 to 1964 regarding his business ventures, his personal life, and his political career. The first series includes papers regarding Barnhart's family life, business ventures, and state government positions. Major topics include family correspondence; World War I correspondence; News-Sentinel newspaper; State Highway Commission;...
Dates: 1863-1964

Indiana Forum, Inc. collection

 Collection
Identifier: L499
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, memorandums, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs and other documents ranging from 1968 to 1977 regarding the establishment of the Indiana Forum, Inc. (INFO) and the organization's public service activities. The collection contains several publications, including the INFO pamphlet Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Tax: A Basic Book on Public Finance in Indiana (circa 1970s); the pamphlets Retirement, Discipline and Removal of...
Dates: 1968-1977

Indiana General Assembly collection

 Collection
Identifier: L241
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence from constituents and legislators in Indiana, editorials, newspaper articles, newsletters, photographs, proclamations, resolutions, telegrams, and bills ranging from 1969 to 2016 regarding Indiana legislation and literacy activities.

There is also an oversize folder containing appointments and resolutions from the Indiana General Assembly from circa 1986 to 2014 (OB242).
Dates: 1969-2016

Indiana General Assembly rosters

 Collection — Folder OBD050
Identifier: OBD050
Scope and Contents This collection contains member lists and rosters of the Indiana Senate and Indiana House of Representatives from 1831 to 1880.
Dates: 1831-1880

Indiana Historical Bureau collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2227
Scope and Contents This collection includes typewritten transcriptions of correspondence contained in the Dunihue papers on deposit at Indiana University. Ranging from 1832 to 1836, the letters were sent to Alexander and Daniel Dunihue of Bedford, Indiana from their cousins Harriet E. Gardiner and Caroline Gardiner and from Richard Wigginton Thompson. The collection also includes photostats of the following documents copied from the originals housed in the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection,...
Dates: 1832-1950