Agriculture -- Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Henry, Madison and Delaware County Agricultural Society score book
Collection — Folder S1498
Identifier: S1498
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the official score book for the Friday, August 2, 1907 horse races at the Henry, Madison and Delaware County Agricultural Society fair. The score book contains information about the 2:18 trot, 2:19 pace, and 5-8 mile run races; handwritten notes and race results; local business advertisements; and schedules for upcoming race programs at other community fairs.
Dates:
1907
Indiana State Department of Agriculture, Indiana State Fair photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP076
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from the Indiana State Department of Agriculture in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1900 to 1927 regarding the Indiana State Fair and its various exhibits, venues, shows, buildings, and grounds.
Dates:
circa 1900-1927
Indianapolis aviation and family small photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP170
Identifier: SP170
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a positive print of film negatives and many of the film negatives of miscellanous portraits of men and women including Civil War soldiers, group snapshots, airplanes, an aerial view, a city street view, and agricultural scenes, ranging from circa 1861 to 1919 and undated.
Dates:
circa 1861-1919, undated
International Dairy Exposition records
Collection
Identifier: L394
Scope and Contents
This collection includes administrative records, correspondence, financial records, publications, and realia from Chester Parker in Indianapolis ranging from 1947 to 1951 regarding International Dairy Exposition Inc. Notable items include a page listing Wendell L. Willkie's wife as the chairman of the Women's National Advisory Committee in 1950, catalogs of entries for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd annual exposition, ticket passes, stickers, and flags.
Dates:
1947-1951
Isaac and Rufus Thornburg collection
Collection — Folder S1311
Identifier: S1311
Scope and Contents
On August 29, 1881, R. S. Russell, Zionsville, Indiana, wrote to Isaac Thornburg and enclosed a flyer about his Chester white hogs with the prices for 1880. On October 27, 1881, S. R. Quick wrote to Isaac about "a dark red bull calf about six months old" selling for $75.00. Mr. Quick's letterhead states: Forest Shade Farm, S. R. Quick and Son, Short Horn Cattle and Cotswold Sheep, Stock for Sale at Fair Rates." He was located in Columbus, Indiana.
The final letter, dated December 17, 1893,...
Dates:
1881-1893
J. C. Ullery, Sumption Prairie farm account book
Collection — Folder S1331
Identifier: S1331
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an account book by John C. Ullery ranging from 1878-1888. Entries included are for shearing sheep, hauling clover seed, husking corn, butchering, and hauling manure. He also recorded payments to people who did work for him. South Bend is mentioned as a source for supplies. On the inside cover, Myrtle Ullery is stamped in ink.
Dates:
1878-1888
J. D. Adams and Company records
Collection
Identifier: L390
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of three parts. One part is that of annual, financial and various other business reports. This portion holds annual reports from 1929 until 1957, as well as other business records. The second portion of the collection are photocopies of photographs and pictures illustrating the company, its employees and machines from around 1932 until 1974. The last part of the collection consists of the catalogs that the company used to aid their salespeople and guide buyers...
Dates:
1929-1977
James Nelson Shepherd collection
Collection
Identifier: L311
Scope and Contents
This collection contains James Nelson Shepherd's Bible (1855); his pocket diary (1861-1866) with entries from his service in the Civil War and his personal accounts; his letters to his fiancée, Arminda Rhyan of New Goshen, Vigo County, Indiana and a couple of her needlepoint items, with one using human hair (1860-1862); Civil War letters to Shepherd from his brothers, Thomas E. Shepherd of the 31st Indiana and Edgar M. Shepherd from home (1862); Shepherd's farm ledgers (1864-1866), including...
Dates:
1855-1958, undated
Joseph Beeler collection
Collection
Identifier: L014
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of family letters of the Beeler family ranging from 1823 to 1850. The letters relate to family activities, description of Illinois legislature, and general correspondence. The collection also contains two letters from a World War I soldier. Also included in the collection are several volumes: diaries of George M. Beeler (Joseph's son), Joseph Beeler's account book (1836–1849), Fielding Beeler's account books (1847–1879), records of the Northport and Mars Hill Gravel Road...
Dates:
1778-1890s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joseph Beeler collection
Joseph Cunningham collection
Collection
Identifier: L364
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of business correspondence between Joseph Cunningham and his clients. Some of the more recurrent of his business correspondents were Morris Printing Company, printers of the Swine Breeders Journal, J. B. Luyster, Lloyd Mugg, C.M. Dayton, C.S. William and Sons, and S. B. Wenger. The correspondence discusses the sale of Poland China Swine and Plymouth Rock Poultry eggs, including prices and pedigrees of the hogs. Some of the letters...
Dates:
1891-1966
