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Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846. Charles Alexandre Lesueur Collection of Works of Art on Paper, ca. 1800-1846.

Title: Charles Alexandre Lesueur Collection of Works of Art on Paper, ca. 1800-1846.

The Charles Alexandre Lesueur Collection (circa 1800-1846; 42 items) contains twenty-five pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor sketches on paper by Lesueur. Many of the sketches document life in New Harmony, Indiana, and these works are most likely dated according to Lesueur's stay in Indiana, from 1826 to 1837. Some of the works date prior to 1826, when Lesueur resided in France. The collection also includes seventeen pencil and watercolor sketches attributed to Virginia Dupalais, Lesueur's niece and pupil who lived with him in New Harmony, or Lucy Sistare [Say], a fellow artist teaching at New Harmony.

ArchivalResource: 42 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/66903225 View

Caldwell, John. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1785-1893.

Caldwell was Receiver for the Shawneetown (Ill.) Land Office and operated a general store for the Rappites. Material relating to Vincennes and New Harmony, Ind. and to the store. Includes letters of Albert Gallatin Caldwell, a naval officer.

ArchivalResource: 389 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10682786 View

Indiana History mss., 1725-1973

Title: Indiana History mss., 1725-1973

Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety of sources, relating to Indiana. Includes correspondence, diaries, minutes, financial records, memoirs, articles about specific areas of the state, and legal documents. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 594 items

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/lilly/InU-Li-VAA1332 View

Vigo, Francis, 1747-1836. Papers, 1751-1873, bulk 1785-1820.

Title: Papers, 1751-1873, bulk 1785-1820.

Vigo's business and personal papers. Topics include the fur trade at Vincennes, Fort Wayne, Detroit, and Montreal; John Askin and the Miami Company; business dealings with the Piankeshaw and other Native Americans; land transactions at Vincennes, including lands donated by Congress to the original French settlers; Vigo's work on behalf of Anthony Wayne and William Henry Harrison; and his efforts to collect repayment from Congress for loans to George Rogers Clark during the American Revolution. Also included is the inventory of Fernando de Leyba's estate, 1780.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 3 reels microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43981613 View

Ewing, Nathaniel, 1772-1846. Papers, 1764-1847.

Title: Papers, 1764-1847.

The collection consists of miscellaneous papers connected to Knox County, Indiana for the period of 1764-1847. The collection has been arranged in chronological order and placed in folders according to decade. The papers are wide ranging. Some examples are; inventories for estates, wills, court documents, receipts, minutes from a local meeting, and land office documents. Some of the earlier papers are in French. One example is a bond dated 31 March 1806 of Pierre Querre, Vital Boucher, and Joseph Chartier to serve as administrators of the estate of Charles Boucher of Vincennes, also signed by Robert Buntin and John Rice Jones. Another document is a bond of Nathaniel Ewing as administrator of the estate of Andrew English. Also bonded on this document were John Badollet and Francis Vigo.

ArchivalResource: 1 manuscript box, 1 oversized manuscript folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10187266 View