Civil War, U. S., 1861-1865; Correspondence; Fortune telling; Love-letters; American Civil War, letters and diaries; Military life
Ernest Schleicher, a soldier in Company I 38th Regiment Indiana Infantry, wrote letters home during the Civil War to Harriet Jackson of New Providence, Indiana. Ernest mustered in as a private in 1861 and was discharged in 1865 as a sergeant. These...
Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Yearbooks; Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Students -- Yearbooks; College Yearbooks; Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Students
Yearbooks from Central Normal College located in Danville, Indiana.
Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Yearbooks; Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Students -- Yearbooks; College Yearbooks; Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Students
Yearbook from Central Normal College located in Danville, Indiana.
Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Yearbooks; Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Students -- Yearbooks; College Yearbooks; Central Normal College (Danville, Ind.) -- Students
Yearbook from Central Normal College located in Danville, Indiana.
History; County government; Pioneers; Families; Farm life; Farming;
Mr. McCormick describes his work as an "An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern Developments in the Reclamation of Lands and the Progress of Town and Country".
Steamboats; Showboats; Riverboats; "Grace Devers"; Towboats; Tugboats; Levees; Otto Hitner
The "Cotton Blossom" began life in 1896 as a raft for a lumber company working out of St. Paul. She handled the large excursion barge named "Mississippi" at one time, was renamed "The Princess" and was then sold to the Barrett Line for use as a...
If the "Delta Queen" was the swan of the Ohio, then the "Kentucky" was the Little Mud Hen. According to Way's Packet Directory, "the cabin was shifted out of plumb and leaned in a uniform stagger creating an optical illusion seen nowhere else...
The "Washington" is shown docked at Madison, Indiana, just above the Trow Flour Mill. On its sign you can see part of the word 'Perfection'. Perfection flour was shipped all over the country, and to other countries, by boat and rail. The mill...
This is a receipt sent to Peter L. McDaniel of Charlestown, Indiana from A.E. Burkhardt & Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is for animal furs McDaniel sold to Burkhardt & Co. He sold 23 coons, 4 opossums, 6 skunks, and 1 house cat for a total of $12.75.
Photographer Theodore Eitel’s album, About a Town in Southern Indiana, depicts the Ohio River town of Utica, Clark County, Indiana circa 1920s. The fifteen village scenes are mounted on board with vellum. Eitel was a native of Louisville,...
Copy of an aerial photograph looking northwest at the intersection of State Roads 5 and 114. On the lower edge is a small store. In the center is the Luther Store and filling station and a sidewalk leading north to a house. Earlyne Kline noted that...
Monroe County (Ind.) -- History; Law -- Indiana -- Monroe County; County government -- Indiana -- Monroe County; Public records -- Indiana -- Monroe County
Levi Collier provides testimony that on March 12, 1864 David Buskirk, Mat Anderson, and Wiseman Anderson caused a disturbance against Nancy Collier and Delaney Collier.
Monroe County (Ind.) -- History; Law -- Indiana -- Monroe County; County government -- Indiana -- Monroe County; Public records -- Indiana -- Monroe County
Peter A. M. Whitesell states that on March 3, 1863 the following group of men violently and tumultiously assembled together to create a disturbance: Thomas Evans, James E. McBride, George Dearman, John S. Spencer, James Polk Spencer, Alexander...
