This burgundy velvet covered photograph album contains portraits of the Hiestand family and others. The album contains pages with slots for the pictures. The pictures were removed from the slots in order for the entire image to be scanned. Some...
This scrapbook was given to James T. and Mary Catherine “Kate” Hiestand by Mother Hiestand, April 12, 1884. It contains obituaries, newspaper clippings, picture clippings, and advertising. Most items do not have dates but the latest date found...
Sellersburg (Ind.); Speed (Ind); El Paso (Tex.); Photography
These photographs are in a 3 ring binder. It is not clear who took or collected the photographs. Many of the images are from the Sellersburg and Speed, Indiana area. There are photographs from other unidentified places. The pages are double sided...
Letter from editor Charles H. Hanson to Ray Carlin, R.R. #3 Warsaw, Indiana (Monroe Township) concerning the photo shoot of the Carlin farm for Ford Farming magazine. The letterhead is for Dearborn Motors, Detroit, Michigan and the letter is dated...
In the early to mid 1880s this address was a photography studio run by Manson R. Lanham and William W. Wagner. In 1889, Crozier Monuments was at the same address havng moved from the SE corner of First and Mulberry Streets. The monument company was...
"General Pike"; Steamboats; Riverboats; Steamboat accidents; Mail steamers
On January 1, 1891, the "General Pike" collided with one of the Middleton and Wymond coal barges, causing both to sink in a very few minutes. Captain Sam Bryant, Clerk Ed Long, and Pilot Bowen managed to save everyone on board. She was built for...
The Remy Electric Company made one of the most reliable magnetos in America. In 1910, a testimonial letter from Wm. H. Smith of the Regal Motor Car Co. (Detroit) praises the Remy magneto's reliability on a journey from New York to San Franciso. ...
"Wm. H. Smith in a "Regal Plugger" equipped with REMY magneto lowers world's touring car record from coast to coast, covering 4031 1/2 miles in 30 days." Cards were made the year before Remy Electric was sold to Fletcher Savings and Loan in 1911.
The Jesse G. Dorsey Collection of World War II Correspondence consists of correspondence from 348 service members and their relatives, written to Jesse Dorsey during World War II. Mr. Dorsey was the Director of Recreation and Welfare and editor of...
This is an autograph book belonging to Joe H. Graves of Charlestown, Indiana. He starts the book on 14 November 1891. He collected signatures and poems from family, friends, and teachers over years with the latest date being 1899. The book is very...
