Madison County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Maude Vestal collection
Collection
Identifier: L384
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Maude Vestal’s diaries (1920, 1925-1932) and papers, ranging from 1920 to 1940, largely regarding the Wendell Willkie Notification Committee (1940). The Willkie papers principally pertain to the planning of the official notification ceremony in Elwood, Indiana, on August 17, 1940. The collection also contains family and business correspondence; papers regarding her guardianship of Ann Catherine Shaffer; reports on clothing production by Red Cross...
Dates:
1920-1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Maude Vestal collection
Nibarger family photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P058
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs and an autograph album from the Nibarger family in Indiana ranging from circa 1880 to 1948 regarding family members, group photographs, and World War II soldiers. One photograph has a letter written on the back from Orville Nibarger to his sister and brother (possibly Ida and her husband Duke) on July 2, 1948 regarding sale of a house
Dates:
circa 1880-1948
Robert J. Elvin scrapbook on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad
Collection — Box L715
Identifier: L715
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad passenger and freight totals from June 1840-May 1841 and expenditures from March 30, 1842-September 1842. Notably, plats of a proposed railroad depot in Indianapolis, Indiana by engineers A.W. Morris and T.A. Morris dating from March 25, 1825 are included as well as an 1846 survey of railroad approaches to Indianapolis. A Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad broadside with route information, circulars,...
Dates:
1842-1893
Sally Ann Bereman collection
Collection — Folder S0109
Identifier: S0109
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters written by Hannah Bereman and N. Bereman of Madison County, Indiana to Sally Ann Bereman of New Market, Ohio. The letters discuss family members, the homestead, and hardships of daily life. There are some discrepancies in dates given in the letters for events and records found.
Dates:
1832-1924
Thomas C. Searle collection
Collection — Folder S1161
Identifier: S1161
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an original copy of the Boston Recorder, Nathaniel Willis, November 11, 1820 (No. 46, Vol. V, p. 181-184). The article, "Dutch Settlement in Indiana" by Rev. Thomas C. Searle (p. 181), is an extract of a letter from Searle submitted to the Boston Recorder, dated October 2, 1820. Searle’s letter discusses his observations of the church ministry and school education in the rural Dutch settlement between Vevay and Madison, Indiana.
Dates:
1820
Thomas Silver collection
Collection
Identifier: L143
Scope and Contents
The collection contains personal correspondence, receipts, accounts, daybook, deeds, and other business papers from Thomas Silver in Pendleton, Indiana, ranging from 1828 to 1866, related to his store. Also included are accounts with wholesale merchants in Cincinnati, Ohio and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as receipts, accounts, and business papers for Pendleton merchant and brother William Silver.
Dates:
1828-1866
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Thomas Silver collection
Weil and Finch daybook
Collection — Volume V168
Identifier: V168
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one daybook recording purchases by customers from Weil and Finch in Madison County, Indiana from 1877 to 1880.
Dates:
1877-1880
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Weil and Finch daybook
William A. White letter and newspaper articles transcripts
Collection — Folder S1395
Identifier: S1395
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten transcription of a September 22, 1843 letter written by William A. White at Newcastle, Indiana and published in the October 13, 1843 edition of The Liberator, a Boston abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison. The letter is addressed to "Dear Friend" and relates what happened when a mob assaulted White, Frederick Douglass, George Bradburn, and others at an anti-slavery meeting in Pendleton,...
Dates:
1843, 1910-1911
William H. Blodgett scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: L372
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two scrapbooks from William H. Blodgett in Anderson, New Castle, and Richmond, Indiana; Illinois; and elsewhere in the United States, ranging from 1858 to 1895 and undated. The scrapbooks contain correspondence, checks, advertisement cards, newspaper clippings, programs, and a ribbon. The first scrapbook (1858-1884, 1895) concerns numerous topics, including politics, business, religion, crime, sports, temperance, police corruption, and other current and local events...
Dates:
1858-1895
William H. Wade collection
Collection
Identifier: L656
Scope and Contents
This collection includes William H. Wade’s correspondence, writing drafts, speeches, photographs, publications, clippings, news releases, and other research documentation during his time at the Anderson Herald, ranging from 1949 to 1971. Also included is correspondence and writing drafts from his son, David L. Wade during 1953-1969. The bulk of the collection consists of Wade’s source material for his “Folklore” column, as well as other writing interests and...
Dates:
1825-1987, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William H. Wade collection
