Memorabilia
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
1968 political memorabilia
Collection — Folder S2059
Identifier: S2059
Scope and Contents
This collection includes political memorabilia from the 1968 presidential election as well as local Indiana elections, such as state representative and the mayor of the City of Indianapolis.
Dates:
1968
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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1968 political memorabilia
1980-1981 political memorabilia
Collection — Folder S2057
Identifier: S2057
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter from the Governor Otis R. Bowen campaign sent to potential donors for support. Also included are letters from the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign soliciting contributions and support for the upcomming election year. A sample ballot, pamphlets, precinct information, and magazine articles are included. A Communist Party pamphlet featuring Gus Hall and Angela Davis as well as a Dan Quayle for United States Senate pamphlet and newspaper clipping can be found...
Dates:
1980-1981
Aurelius M. Willoughby collection
Collection
Identifier: L303
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Aurelius Willoughby's Civil War diaries ranging from 1861 to 1865. Also included are discharge papers, memorabilia, and personal business papers dating from 1864 to 1917 and a manuscript history of Company H. 39th Indiana with photographs, circa 1910. The collection also includes 2 tintypes of Aurelius Willoughby, 32 cartes-de-visite depicting landmarks in Washington D.C., Georgia, and Niagra Falls, in addition to two portraits of Confederate General T. R. R. Cobb and...
Dates:
1861-1950
Billy D. Caudell political memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: L239
Scope and Contents
This collection includes advertising items from political campaigns, including a hat, buttons, a stuffed plush talking donkey, a cocktail glass with logo, cigarettes and a cigarette carrying case, a pen, medallions, and photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ranging from 1935 to 1996 regarding political campaigns and historical events.
Dates:
1935-1996
Commemorative wooden nickels and Confederate bill facsimile
Collection — Folder S2228
Identifier: S2228
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three "wooden nickel" certificates created to commemorate the Wabash County, Indiana Centennial (1935) and the Decatur, Indiana Centennial (1936). The collection also contains a facsimile of a five hundred dollar Confederate note memento from the Civil War Centennial Exhibit held at the L.S. Ayres & Company auditorium in Indianapolis from April 11 to April 22, 1961.
Dates:
1935-1961
Hoosier Railroad Club collection
Collection
Identifier: L716
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, magazines, manuals, brochures, pamphlets, and advertisements from the Hoosier Railroad Club in Indiana spanning from 1868 to 1992. Items outline the evolution of railways throughout the United States and internationally. There are how-to manuals for learning about trains, learning how to operate trains, and how to tell them apart. There is also a full set of photos from the development of the Union Pacific Railroad up to and including the picture of "The...
Dates:
1868-1992
Indianapolis Motor Speedway memorabilia
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3331
Scope and Contents
This collection includes several Indianapolis Motor Speedway programs (1959-2011), a 5-piece collector's pin set (2000), a complimentary ticket to the IMS Hall of Fame Museum, two tickets to the Coors Light Carb Day (May 22, 2015), an IMS schedule of events for May 2015 and tickets to the 1981 and 1995 race.
Dates:
1959-2015
Jesse T. and Harriet Eitel Johnson family papers
Collection
Identifier: L399
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three folders of photographs used by Jesse T. Johnson in his work, showing interiors and exteriors of many buildings around Indiana and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The correspondence and James Whitcomb Riley memorabilia primarily belong to Harriet Eitel Johnson, who was involved in the restoration of Riley's birthplace in Greenfield, Riley day, Riley Hospital, and various other commemorations of the poet. There is also a folder of writings by Harriet...
Dates:
1862-1956
Jim Hermsen Vietnam War protest collection
Collection
Identifier: L267
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an assortment of organizational notes, propaganda, and newspapers from Jim Hermsen in Bloomington, Indiana in regard to the People's Peace Treaty and the May Day protests in 1971, which were events in response to the Vietnam War. The following items are from the Bloomington, Indiana protests: six protest posters, propaganda buttons and two "Kidnap Kissinger" buttons. A set of instructions about protests in Washington D.C. is also included. There...
Dates:
1971
John M. Conyers ephemera
Collection — Folder S0292
Identifier: S0292
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one sheet of paper, 7” x 9”, with 14 locks of hair, braided and unbraided, tied with colored ribbons presented to John M. Conyers on the day of his induction into Company G, 11th Regiment, on March 29, 1865 during the U.S. Civil War. The names of the women who contributed locks of their hair are handwritten in pencil.
Dates:
1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John M. Conyers ephemera
