Collection: Indiana history collection | Archives and Special Collections

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSP 113

The Indiana history collection comprises materials related to the history of Indiana, its statehood, and its role in the Civil War.

Dates: Creation: 1806 - 1863
Extent: 0.15 Cubic Feet (Two folders and one large flat folder)
Related Names: Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet; Meredith, Henry Clay, 1843-1882; Kimball, David Tenney, 1808-1886
Language of Materials: English

Item — Communal Collections Box: 1, Placement: 01, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSP 113, Item 1

19 pages, 4.75 x 7 in.

Item — Communal Collections Box: 1, Placement: 01, Folder: 2

Identifier: MSP 113, Item 2

8.25 x 13 in. Written in Indianapolis by David Tenney Kimball to his father, Reverend David Tenney Kimball, Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Item — Communal Collections Box: 51, Placement: 03, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSP 113, Item 3

Commission signed by Governor Oliver P. Morton. H.C. Meredith was husband of Virginia Claypool Meredith.

Item — Communal Collections Box: 51, Placement: 03, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSP 113, Item 4

Four-page Philadelphia newspaper. Page 2 contains an article about slavery in the Indiana Territory.

Item — Communal Collections Box: 51, Placement: 03, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSP 113, Item 5

Four-page newspaper from Perrysville, Indiana. Contains Vermillion County tax delinquency chart and news of Henry Clay's campaign.

Item — Communal Collections Box: 51, Placement: 03, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSP 113, Item 6

Black and white reproduction of an illustration of Tenskwatawa, known as The Prophet, who led the Native Americans in the Battle of Tippecanoe.