Agriculture -- Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
A. J. Stag photographs
Collection — Folder SP094
Identifier: SP094
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from the photograph album of A. J. Stag in Indiana circa 1907 regarding agriculture, excavation and construction, African American children and workers, men rowing on a lake, and a wrecked boat.
Dates:
circa 1907
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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A. J. Stag photographs
Advertising collection
Collection — Folder S3085
Identifier: S3085
Scope and Contents
The dated materials found in Collection S3085 extend from 1878 to 1897. Half of the items in this collection relate to farm equipment, including a disk cultivator and harrow, wheel cultivator, sulky plow, pole rake, cultivator, and clover huller. Other items in the collection include a “Legislative Directory” for the 1897 Indiana State Legislature, a post card, and a business card for a photographic studio.Item listing:12 Aug. 1878 - Illustration (7” x 10 ½”) of disk...
Dates:
1878-1897
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Advertising collection
Albert Gallatin Porter papers
Collection
Identifier: L125
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from Albert Gallatin Porter and others in Indianapolis, Indiana and elsewhere; newspaper clippings; speeches; autographed notes and manuscripts; and printed Congressional bills ranging from 1804 to 1928, regarding Porter's political career; biographies; historical subjects; his manuscript and indices.
There are also oversize Internal Improvement Loan stock document and newspaper clippings, ranging from 1838 July to 1888 May (OBC146).
There are also oversize Internal Improvement Loan stock document and newspaper clippings, ranging from 1838 July to 1888 May (OBC146).
Dates:
circa 1804-1928, undated
Alexander Campbell Stevenson collection
Collection
Identifier: L609
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, receipts, an account book and journal, as well as miscellaneous memorabilia from Alexander Campbell Stevenson in Kentucky and Indiana ranging from 1804 to 1882 regarding Stevenson's political and agricultural career.
Dates:
1804-1882
Alexander Heron collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0860
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and complimentary fair tickets from across Indiana sent to the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, Alexander Heron. Ranging from 1885 to 1890, the collection includes tickets from community, county, and district fairs; Trotting and Pace Horse Breeders' Association fairs; Agricultural Association, Agricultural Society, and Agricultural and Mechanical Society fairs; Joint Stock Association and Joint Stock Society fairs; Farmers' Union Association...
Dates:
1885-1890
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alexander Heron collection
Alexander Heron correspondence
Collection — Folder S0641
Identifier: S0641
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from and received by Alexander Heron in Brookville, Indiana, and Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1870 to 1900 regarding the Indiana State Board of Agriculture as well as personal correspondence.
Dates:
1870-1900
Bartholomew Applegate account books
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: V002
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two account books. The first two are for the Pleasant Run Farm in Johnson County, Indiana, which was run by Bartholomew Applegate. Both books are listed chronologically and list his expenses and purchases.
Dates:
1827-1852
Bartholomew County collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1646
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four items: a typescript history of "The Old Tavern" that was located near Elizabethtown (undated); a typescript copy of "A Brief Review of the Organization and Activities of the Columbus Grange No. 2174" by Mrs. W. H. Newsom, a charter member of the Grange (February 7, 1934); a typescript of the "History of Sandcreek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana" by May Adams Arbuckle and copied on June 26, 1934; and a handwritten prison "confession" by John Jones and dated...
Dates:
1833-1934
Benedict C. Birchler oral history transcript
Collection
Identifier: OH038
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a transcript and an audiotape reel for an oral history interivew with Bendedict C. Birchler, conducted by Gerald Hanfield for the Indiana State Library on May 4, 1977. Bircher describes boyhood in rural Indiana, his teaching methods, and school discipline. Birchler worked for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in the 1930 and he discusses Prohibition and the Depression and its effects on farming. At the time of this interview, he lived in the house he and his...
Dates:
1977/05/04
Christian Schrader collection
Collection
Identifier: L573
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, pencil drawings, negatives, 35mm slides, and family photographs from Christian Schrader in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1842 to 1987, regarding Schrader’s family, friends, and early Indianapolis. Schrader includes rough dates for the subjects he depicts in the drawings, but many of them were created from his recollections later in life. There are also oversize drawings (OBE017).Negatives are available for most of the drawings. In...
Dates:
1842-1987
