Clipping, Collecting and Pasting: Assembling Scrapbook Narratives Part 3 of 3 By Mary Anthrop, guest blogger 2 more scrapbooks from the TCHA archives. Helen Mar Jackson Gougar Scrapbooks More than twenty-five years after the scrapbooking efforts of Rebecca Gordon Ball, Helen Mar Jackson Gougar (1843-1907) assembled at least two scrapbooks. Gougar, however, embraced a […]
Clipping, Collecting and Pasting: Assembling Scrapbook Narratives Part 2 of 3 By Mary E. Anthrop, guest blogger Scrapbook creators of the 19th and early 20th century were often amateur historians. For the most part, they circumvented their own written words, but clipped, sorted and organized material into another original narrative. The scrapbook narrative of newspaper […]
Enchanting Mysterious Durkee’s Run By Mabel Louise Whitehead Harlan Originally published in Weatnenotes, Vol. XII, No. 2, March 1983 Editor’s Note: Mabel Louise Whitehead Harlan (1877-1950) wrote the following article on Durkee’s Run in 1949 when she served as Assistant Curator for TCHA. Her bequest to TCHA became part of the Association’s Revolving Publications Fund. […]
“Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!” The Great Whig Rally of 1840 Part II By Julie Dichtl This article first appeared in the TCHA newsletter, Weatenotes Vol. 24, No. 3, March 1991 Editor’s note: The author served at TCHA as Volunteer Coordinator and Weatenotes editor before joining St. Elizabeth Hospital as Director of Volunteer Services in June, […]
Adams Earl 1819- 1898 This article first appeared in the TCHA newsletter Weatenotes, Vol. XI, No. 1, January-February 1982 Adams Earl, next to youngest in an old-fashioned household of 15 children, was a strapping youth of 17 when the family migrated from Fairfield County, Ohio to Tippecanoe County, Indiana in the winter of 1836-37. On […]
Clipping, Collecting and Pasting: Assembling Scrapbook Narratives Part 1 of 3 By Mary E. Anthrop Lafayette – Feb. 15,th 1891 “To my niece Georgie I want this book to belong after me. In it will be found many an account of old times, and settlers long passed away in Lafayette, Indiana the home of your […]
