Family life

Stanton and Moore family photograph album

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: P050

Scope and Contents This collection includes a photograph album containing tintype and carte de visite photographs from the Stanton, Moore, Pike, and Wright families in Indiana ranging from the mid- to late 19th century regarding portraits of individual family members and one image of Spiceland Academy. Many of the photographs are unlabeled.

Dates: 19th century

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Stanton and Moore family photograph album

Susan M. Ketcham papers

Collection — Folder S0773

Identifier: S0773

Scope and Contents This collection contains a handwritten narrative by Susan M. Ketcham regarding her grandfather, Samuel Merrill, and her mother, Jane Merrill, circa March 15, 1925. Along with brief biographical information, Ketcham relates her mother's story about traveling with her father when he moved the state treasury from Corydon to Indianapolis and she also describes how Mr. Merrill traveled around the state as a bank examiner.

Dates: circa 1925/03/14

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Susan M. Ketcham papers

Susan Wallace collection

Collection — Folder S1352

Identifier: S1352

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, both photocopies as well as 4 original letters from Susan Wallace ranging from 1861 to 1892, regarding the U.S. Civil War, family life, her husband's writing career, and politics. There are also a hand-written biography of Susan E. Wallace, beginning with her birth in 1830, and continuing through 1874 and two newspaper clippings, one from The Inter Ocean (undated) and one labeled Triple...

Dates: 1861-1892

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Susan Wallace collection

Taylor family papers

Collection — Folder S1142

Identifier: S1142

Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of a letter and envelope from Zachariah and Susannah Taylor in Greene County, Virginia on May 24, 1843, to their son, Paschal Taylor and his wife in Waterloo, Fayette County, Indiana, regarding family matters, the price of corn, the scarcity of money with personal debt rising, and the upcoming presidential elections and state politics. Also included in the collection is a photocopy of the Danville High School Annual Alumni Banquet announcement and menu, May...

Dates: 1843, 1908

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Taylor family papers

Temple H. Dunn collection

Collection

Identifier: L262

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of Dunn's correspondence from during 1866-1919.Included are Temple Dunn's letters to his brother, William R. Dunn, an Alton furniture maker (1866-1880); letters to his daughter, written while he was living at the Soldiers' Home (1904-1909); letters to Dunn from W.R. Dunn, principally when working with Peckinpaugh, Harrison and Company, an Alton wagon company (1892-1897); and other family letters from Jamestown, Boone County (1878), and from Wells College, N.Y....

Dates: 1855-1950

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Temple H. Dunn collection

Theodore Vernon Denny letters

Collection — Folder S0351

Identifier: S0351

Scope and Contents This collection includes a July 15, 1822 letter sent to Theodore Denny with messages from his brother, Addison, his mother and an A. Henshaw, and three letters written and sent by Theodore to his brother, Christopher Denny, that relate news about family and friends, economic times, cost of land and goods, and his desire for his brother to visit Indianapolis, Indiana. The letters are dated January 24, 18__ (1830's?), February 6, 1841 and February 9, 1843. The 1843 letter includes a note to...

Dates: 1822-1843

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Theodore Vernon Denny letters

Thomas Mills Carter collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S2516

Scope and Contents This collection includes 25 manuscripts of articles written by Thomas Mills Carter for his column "It Takes All Kinds," published in the Bulletin of American Historical Collection, a quarterly periodical was published by the American Association of the Philippines. There are also two issues of the Bulletin from October, 1977 (vol. 5, no. 4) and January-March, 1978 (vol. 6, no.1). The articles offer character sketches and vignettes of American culture during the late 1940s and early 1950s. There...

Dates: 1977-1978

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Thomas Mills Carter collection

Thomas Scattergood Teas biography

Collection — Folder S1291

Identifier: S1291

Scope and Contents This collection comprises biographical materials and a personal narrative from Thomas Scattergood Teas of Henry County, Indiana ranging from 1917 to 1941, regarding his family and early life.

Dates: 1917-1941

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Thomas Scattergood Teas biography

Thomas W. Barnett papers

Collection

Identifier: L571

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a photocopied diary of Thomas W. Barnett when he lived in Union Township, Fulton County, Indiana, from 1861 – 1870. Diary in folder 1, is written on pages from The Franklin Almanac and Diary for the Year 1861, which consists of 2 pages per month with a space for each date, the first page also showing sunrise, sunset, moon rise and moon setting time for each time zone in the United States, as well as the phases of the moon. This is a daily diary with...

Dates: 1861-1870

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Thomas W. Barnett papers

Tim Morris photograph album

Collection — Folder SP009

Identifier: SP009

Scope and Contents This collection contains a photogrpah album created by Tim Morris during the World War II. The photographs show Morris as he traveled around with the army during the war.

Dates: circa 1910-circa 1950

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Tim Morris photograph album

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