Processed by
Pamela Tranfield
February 1997
Revised by Dorothy A. Nicholson
February 2007
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
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VOLUME OF |
1 manuscript box, 1 photograph box, 1 color photograph folder, 1 OVA graphic folder |
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COLLECTION |
1843–ca. 1980 |
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PROVENANCE: |
Dr. William Sholty, Lafayette, Indiana 1987 |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
None |
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COPYRIGHT: |
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REPRODUCTION |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. |
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ALTERNATE |
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RELATED |
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ACCESSION |
1987.0637 |
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NOTES: |
The collection was transferred from the New Richmond Historical Society to the Indiana Historical Society by Dr. William Sholty |
Montgomery County, Indiana was organized in 1823 and is divided into eleven townships with the county seat at Crawfordsville. New Richmond, Indiana is located north of Crawfordsville in Montgomery County in Coal Creek Township. Coal Creek Township is in the extreme north-west portion of Montgomery County and was formed in 1829. The creek running though the northern part of the township gives it its name. New Richmond was first laid out in 1836. A railroad built through the township in the 1880s contributed to the town’s growth and served the area for over a century with freight and passenger service. In the early 1900s as many as fourteen schools were located in the township. Today New Richmond is an incorporated town but its population is smaller than it was in 1910. One item of interest for New Richmond’s most recent history, in the autumn of 1985 scenes from the movie Hoosiers were filmed there.
New Richmond Historical Society: The clippings and other materials were organized and maintained by Al Boone, the curator of the museum at New Richmond. Roger Kunkel of New Richmond, Indiana was the president in 1987, when the organization donated this collection to the Indiana Historical Society. More recent information on this organization could not be found at the time this collection was processed.
Sources:
Materials in collection
Atlases and Maps of Montgomery County, Indiana, 1864, 1878, 1898, 1917. Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1975.
Reference Room Folio: G1403.M8 A75 1975
Family Histories, Montgomery County,
Indiana, 1823-1988.Paducah, Ken.: Turner Publishing Co., 1989.
Reference Room Collection: F532.M75 F25 1989
The photographs, postcards, and printed material document aspects of rural and family life in Montgomery County, Indiana from 1843 to 1980. The collection was organized into three series based on the original order of the folder contents and folder notes provided by the donor.
Series 1: Montgomery County Families. The series consists of photographs and some correspondence of the following families in the Montgomery County area around New Richmond; Martin, Ward, Wilkins, Myers, McCollum, Potter, Jaynes, Kirkpatrick, Miller, Phillips, Gott, and Blue families. The Ross Martin family members are all unidentified but include images made by Willis of Crawfordsville, and one pictorialist portrait of a young woman by Northland of Indianapolis. Other Martin family photographs include a view of a wagon in front of the Stitz Wagon Company and men posing with a cow at the Thomas Wilkins’ farm.
The Myers family photographs include tintypes of Diana, Susanna, and Robert A. Myers; and Charles and Otto McCollum. Snapshots include Myers family children, and a harvesting scene.
Snapshots from the Jaynes family include Deed Jaynes with friends, during WWI military training and wearing baseball uniforms. Another snapshot, circa 1920, shows Deed, Frank, and Guy Jaynes standing beside an automobile. The sign “Gads Taxi” is visible on the windshield of the car. Two photographic postcards show Deed Jaynes and Earl Jaynes in military uniforms. Deed Jaynes’ nephew, C. M. Potter, may have donated these items to the New Richmond Historical Society. A snapshot shows Potter, about five years old and his mother Hettie, on the steps of a home. A postcard with a young couple, Everett and Ethel, pose with their baby beside their car. There is also a harvest scene of A. Merrill at Elmdale, Indiana, and a railroad station and a train photograph.
Another folder of portraits in this series includes snapshots of John, Herb, and Theressa Kirkpatrick ca. 1924; Harris family members Clara Elsa, Ezra, and Roscoe; Bandel Linn [Pappy Linn], a cartoonist-radio commentator, and Mayor Fred C. Bandel; A funeral bouquet with a child’s photograph ca. 1880; and two unidentified female portraits ca. 1880 that were in a folder labeled Robert Haderle.
Series 2: Covered Bridges and Mills. This series contains two folders of articles about mills and covered bridges in Montgomery, Fountain, and Parke counties. It also includes snapshots and postcards of covered bridges and mills near Darlington, Indiana. Al Boone made the photographs between 1961 and 1964.
Series 3: Montgomery County Schools. The series contains teacher certificates, photographs of the Crawfordsville Athenians basketball team (1936–ca. 1942), and the Crawfordsville High School orchestra (1941; 1946). There are two duplicate images of the Waynetown Middle School, circa 1940s, and a photograph of Waynetown basketball player Ernest Raisor, circa 1928.
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CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
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Ross Martin family donation: portraits, unidentified |
Photographs: |
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Ross Martin family donation: funeral photographs |
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Ross Martin family donation: funeral cards for Thomas Ward 1895, Clinton Wilkins 1897, Charlotte Wilkins 1897 |
Box 1, Folder 1 |
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Ross Martin family donation: Lithograph
of the |
OVA Graphics: |
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Ross Martin family donation: Stitz Wagon Company, Lafayette, Indiana |
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Ross Martin family donation: Linden High School Agriculture Class of 1912 at Thomas Wilkins farm, and man, woman, and horse and buggy in front of a house |
Photographs: |
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Indiana Soldiers’ & Seamen’s Home Association membership certificate for Thomas Ward, signed by O.P. Morton, n.d. |
OVA Graphics: |
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McCollum and Myers family photographs |
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Potter and Jaynes family photographs, WWI era soldiers |
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C.M. Potter “showing off” Thanksgiving 1970 [man with guitar wearing wig] |
Color Photographs: |
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Kirkpatrick and Harris families, Mayor Fred C. Bandel |
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Phillips family correspondence
1908–1913 |
Box 1, Folder 2 |
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Montgomery County Sheriff, Wm. N. Gott document
concerning sale of Uriah H. Blue property July 8, 1843 |
Box 1, Folder 3 |
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CONTAINER |
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Covered bridge printed material and articles |
Box 1, Folder 4 |
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Covered bridge photographs and postcards: Darlington Bridge, Roby Roy Bridge, Sperry’s Mill Bridge, Veedersburg Bridge, Wallace Bridge, Yountsville Bridge |
Photographs: |
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Covered bridge, building and, cemetery photographs |
Color Photographs: |
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Mills printed material and articles |
Box 1, Folder 5 |
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Mills and round barn photographs: Kenworthy Mill, |
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CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
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Montgomery County teacher permits and certificates for Edith Gilkeson, D. Etta Marcrum, Flint Lee, Geraldine Dodt, Freida schelke, Audrey H. Jones, Alva A. Porter, 1910, 1921 |
Box 1, Folder 6 |
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Crawfordsville High School
basketball teams, 1936, 1938, 1942 |
Photographs: |
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Waynetown Schools: Ernest Raisor 1927 & 1928 with basketball, Waynetown Public School ca. 1930 |
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