Indiana -- Social life and customs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Silas Adin Lingo diary
Collection — Folder S0840
Identifier: S0840
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an original diary from Silas Adin Lingo in Decatur County, Indiana, ranging from 1875 to 1881. The diary is handwritten by Lingo during his adolescence. The diary is legible but fragile, having sustained considerable moisture and mildew damage in the past.
Dates:
1875-1881
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Silas Adin Lingo diary
Social invitations and cards collection
Collection
Identifier: L349
Scope and Contents
This collection includes invitations, calling cards, at-home cards, and one dance card, many with the name John W. Blackledge, documenting aspects of social life and events in and around Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1881 to 1923. Others materials are diverse, comprising tickets to graduations, wedding announcements, and invitations to teas, dances, dinner parties, weddings, and anniversary parties, among other items.A later addition included an 1842 invitation from L. Goodale...
Dates:
1842-1923
Taggart's Union Station Dining Room menus
Collection — Folder S3226
Identifier: S3226
Scope and Contents
This collection includes over 30 menus from Taggart's Union Station Dining Room in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1888 to 1890.
Dates:
1888-1890
Taverns list
Collection — Folder S2118
Identifier: S2118
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three documents, two handwritten and one typed on Indianapolis Star letter head. All three documents list various old taverns that can be found around the state of Indiana. The first is a description of different taverns in the order that one would encounter them in while walking through an area near Greensburg. The next paper is a list of different towns of Indiana. The final document is typed and lists several historic taverns in...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Taverns list
Van Scyoc and Shackelford family papers
Collection
Identifier: L556
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of the Van Scyoc and Shackelford families. This includes correspondence, school records, receipts, account books and ledgers, photographs, and other documents related to their interests.
There are also marriage certificate of Artie L. Shackelford and Mary Bessie Van Scyoc, two company calendars, and two broadsides, one advertising the second Indianapolis Industrial Exposition (OBD029).
There are also marriage certificate of Artie L. Shackelford and Mary Bessie Van Scyoc, two company calendars, and two broadsides, one advertising the second Indianapolis Industrial Exposition (OBD029).
Dates:
1844-1978
William P. Evans oral history
Collection
Identifier: OH021
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a transcript and a reel-to-reel audiotape of an interview with William P. Evans conducted by Thomas Krasean for the Indiana State Library Oral History Project on May 2, 1969. Evans discusses his family and schooling; Governor Hanly and his interests in prohibition; his military service; his wife; the Ku Klux Klan; some of his more prominent cases; and his work for the Public Service Company of Indiana. He also talks about Governors Warren T. McCray and Ed Jackson and...
Dates:
1969/05/02
William Wilson diaries
Collection
Identifier: V156
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 16 volumes containing the diaries of William Wilson of Clinton County, Indiana. Ranging from 1880 to 1920, the diary entries include descriptions of farm life, social activities, and economic conditions along with personal finance notations and copies of affidavits regarding his disablity from his service in the Civil War. The first volume was originally a ledger used in 1859 and Wilson's first diary entry on December 29, 1880 mentions that he went to visit Sam Holiday...
Dates:
1859-1920
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William Wilson diaries
