Family life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:
Harrison Allis letters
Collection — Folder S017
Identifier: S0017
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters sent to Harrison F. Allis by friends and family while studying at Hanover College in Indiana and after returning home to Evansville, Indiana, ranging from 1872 to 1884. The letters detail life in Evansville and what his friends and family were doing. H.D. Allis, Harrison F. Allis' father, makes a brief mention in his first letter about an earthquake that struck nearby. His friend, Pussy Walter, recounts a visit and speech given by Vice President Henry Wilson....
Dates:
1872-1884
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Harrison Allis letters
Harry E. Lewis papers
Collection — Folder S0830
Identifier: S0830
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of Harry E. Lewis's family documents and includes the Society of Friends marriage certificate of Samuel Cox and Lydia Kenworthy (1837/11/02); a Sons of Temperance certificate of membership of Thomas Brooks (1848/05/29); certificates from the Methodist Episcopal Church appointing Thomas Brooks a deacon (1851/10/12) and an elder (1855/09/16); Madison Yount's discharge paper from Company H, Indiana 22nd Regiment (1864/08/15); records of the marriage of James...
Dates:
1837-1888
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Harry E. Lewis papers
Harry Willis Miller autobiography
Collection — Folder S1900
Identifier: S1900
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of a handwritten autobiography written by Harry Willis Miller in 1936. At the time of the donation, the original copy was housed at the Area Research Center, River Falls, Wisconsin.
Dates:
1936
Heineken family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0626
Scope and Contents
This collection includes several letters from members of the Heineken family, particularly to or from Christian, Samuel and Thomas Heineken, in Ohio, Indiana, and Great Britain ranging from 1810 to 1888 regarding settlement in Indiana and Ohio, family life, travel, weather, cholera epidemics, national politics, and farming. There is also a U.S. Civil War diary kept by Samuel Heineken during 1862-1863 and an 1888 roster of the 3rd Indiana Cavalry.
Dates:
1810-1888
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Heineken family papers
Helen Clift clippings
Collection — Folder S1183
Identifier: S1183
Scope and Contents
This collection includes forty-nine clippings of Kate Milner Rabb's Indianapolis Star newspaper column, "The Hoosier Listening Post," range from March 14, 1935 to July 25, 1935 that contain transcribed entries from diaries kept by Helen Clift of New Castle, Indiana in 1863 and 1865. Helen used her diary to record her daily chores, the weather, visitors, social activities, and other happenings in New Castle. Her 1863 diary also recorded her time teaching in Economy, Wayne County, Indiana and...
Dates:
1935
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Helen Clift clippings
Henry Aughinbaugh papers
Collection — Folder S3230
Identifier: S3230
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a scanned copy and typed transcript of a letter from Henry Aughinbaugh in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania on March 16, 1844 regarding imminent death and family matters and a transcript of a another letter from John Thrush in Shippensburg in 1844.
Dates:
1844
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry Aughinbaugh papers
Henry E. Wahl collection
Collection
Identifier: L172
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters to Henry E. Wahl from his parents (1936–1945) and letters to his parent during World War II. The letters originate from Bloomington, Indiana, California, Hawaii, and the Pacific. Included are letters from Donald Wahl, a naval officer serving in the Pacific.Additionally, the collection contains a notebook with a diary of a trip from Evansville Indiana to Nashville, Tennessee in and accounts for a schoolteacher in Gibson County in 1866, as well as...
Dates:
1865-1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry E. Wahl collection
Hiram A. Pratt diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1943
Scope and Contents
This collection includes four diaries of Hiram A. Pratt of Waveland, Indiana. The diaries are from 1866, 1869, 1882, and 1887 and contain entries about Pratt's daily activities and expenditures, the weather, church attendance, and news about family and friends.
Dates:
1866-1887
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hiram A. Pratt diaries
Historical Society of Porter County, Inc. newsletter
Collection — Folder S0683
Identifier: S0683
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a newsletter of the Historical Society of Porter County Inc. from 1971. The newsletter contains transcriptions of the group's first attempt at creating oral histories, with different members of the community relating stories about family members who were early pioneers of Porter County, Indiana and discussions of the county's historic buildings. One interview of note relates an older gentleman's rememberances from his childhood of his time spent with Lew Wallace.
Dates:
1971
Indiana Sesquicentennial Manuscript Project collection
Collection
Identifier: L209
Scope and Contents
This collection includes originals and copies of letters, account books, diaries, journals, accounts of life in prison, military records, minutes of organizations, regimental histories, reminiscences and memoirs, sermons, and speeches and printed documents such as commencement programs, business and industrial catalogs, broadsides, maps and pamphlets from citizens in Indiana ranging from 1772 to 1967, undated regarding personal and civic life and business activities. Also included are oversize...
Dates:
1772-1967, undated
