Remembering Indiana in the Twentieth Century 1995-1996

Congress of Industrial Organizations

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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

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Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African American Men, was founded on December 4, 1906, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of brotherhood among African descendants in this country. The seven visionary founders, known as the “Jewels” of the fraternity, are Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Ha...

AFL-CIO

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The AFL and CIO merged in 1955 as an umbrella organization for skilled trade and industrial unions. Its regional office in Baltimore represented worker interests against this railroad merger. From the description of AFL-CIO response to merger of Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads, 1962-1963. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 238572652 Created by merger of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955. ...

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

University of Evansville

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Phi Mu

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Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America

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General Electric Company

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Founded 1892. Corporate interests include: Broadcasting; Electric Components; Household Appliances; Lighting Equipment; Motors; Telecommunications; Electromedical Industry. From the description of Technical records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865339 Founded 1892. From the description of General Electric Company in Camden, N.J., collection, 1878-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979711 Schenectady, NY. From the description of Electr...

Butler, Hobart

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Redevelopment Commission

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Mead Johnson and Company.

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Evansville, IN and Jersey City, NJ. From the description of Pamphlets, ca.1900-1936. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122624592 ...

Mathis Electric

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Union Carbide Corporation

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Daughters of the American Revolution.

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D. A. R. chapters from Washington, DC and surrounding areas. From the description of Papers, 1948-1949. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36009706 ...

Koch, Ashburn

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New York Central Railroad

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853. However, it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s and 1890s the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland from the east and west. During the early twentieth century the railroad built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that wer...

IUPUI

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Nance, Mac

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Faultless Caster Company

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Servel Corporation

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F.W. Cook Brewery

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Peters High School

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DaimlerChrysler.

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Welsh, Matthew V.

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Optimists Club

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Ku Klux Klan

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International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine & Furniture Workers

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Chartered as an affiliate of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) on 2 November 1949, after a tumultuous split with its parent organization--the communist-dominated United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)--the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE) evolved into one of the most influential trade unions in North America. Its membership reached a high of 400,000 during the mid-1950s and comprised a significant proportion of the...

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 2309

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The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 1179 is based in Portsmouth, Ohio. The Bylaws of System Council No. 25 govern IBEW 1179, of which it is a part, having jurisdiction over all electrical work on the Norfolk and Western Railway and the Ann Arbor Railway. As of 1979, the national IBEW restructured the unions, and Local 1179 is now part of Local 575 in District 4. From the guide to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1179 records, 19...

Reitz High School

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Blackburn, Cleo

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Horner, Carlton

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White, Sam

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United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, Local 813

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United Way of America

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Crispus Attucks High School.

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Levi Strauss and Company

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Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in May 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business. The company's corporate headquarters is located in the Levi's Plaza in San Francisco. Levi Strauss started the business at the 90 Sacramento Street address in San Francisco. He next moved the location...

Witherspoon Presbyterian Church

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Flanner House Homes

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Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory

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University of Southern Indiana

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General motors corporation

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Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company

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Lugar, Richard G.

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Sunbeam Corporation

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Sells, Dallas

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Christian Fellowship Church

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Swanson and Nunn's Signs

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Zenith Electronics Corporation.

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Audubon, John James, 1785-1851

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Naturalist, ornithologist, and artist, known for his Birds of America. From the description of Letters received, 1831-1853. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56506202 Audubon was an American artist and ornithologost. From the guide to the John James Audubon letters and drawings, 1805-1892 (inclusive), 1805-1847 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) John James Audubon was a painter and ornithologist. Born in ...

Indianapolis Redevelopment Commission.

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Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century

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Victory Field

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Army ROTC

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AAA Canning Factory

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Toastmasters International

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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

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District 7 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) consisted of locals throughout Ohio and are now part of the UE's Eastern Region. From the description of UE National Office records relating to District 7 and District 7 locals, 1936-1990s. (University of Pittsburgh). WorldCat record id: 767644242 District 5 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) consisted of locals throughout Canada. From the description...

Philanthropic Educational Organization

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Sentner, William

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Upton, Ernest

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Whirlpool Corporation

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Shiloh Baptist Church

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Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

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Chi Omega

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E.C. Ernst Company

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Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

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Mitchell, Ed

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Gray Ladies

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Horny, Richard

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McCutchanville Methodist Church

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Althoff-Howard

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Book, William Frederick, 1873-1940

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William Frederick Book was born in Princeton, Indiana, on June 10, 1873, to Christian Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Bussdicker) Book. He received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1900. After he received his PhD from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1906, Book accepted a job as a psychology professor at the University of Montana. On Sept. 3, 1907, Book married Mary Roach Cougel from Sussex, New Brunswick. Book returned ...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

American Fletcher National Bank

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Pierre, Richard

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Woodmere Asylum

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Alcoa, Incorporated

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Bruen, Ken.

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Bell, Catherine

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Epithet: wife of Sir J Bell British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0x0002e9 ...

Evansville Press

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Foster, John W.

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Harp, Ralph

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Peters, William Wesley

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Indianapolis Clowns

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Central State University

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Central High School

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Truesdell, Barbara

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Foster, Mary Park McPherson

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Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957

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Edith Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1876, daughter of the state's first Lieutenant Governor, Othman A. Abbott. She received her A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1901, her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1905, and spent the year 1906-1907 in post-graduate study at the University of London. Upon her return to Chicago in 1908, she became a resident of Hull House, where she remained until 1920. During this same period, 1908-1920, she served as Associate Director of the ...

Fraternal Order of Eagles

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The Fraternal Order of Eagles was founded on February 6, 1898 by six theater owners sitting on a pile of lumber in Moran's shipyard in Seattle. They were competitors who had come together to discuss a musicians strike. After deciding how to handle the strike, they agreed to "bury the hatchet" and form an organization dubbed, "The Order of Good Things." Early meetings were held on local theater stages and after taking care of business, attendees rolled out a keg of beer and enjoyed s...

Lane Seminary Grounds

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Indiana University. Digital Library Program

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In 1954, the Indiana University School of Education partnered with the Prasan Mitr College of Education in Bangkok and the Thai Ministry of Education to develop programs in teacher education in Thailand. IU's involvement in this area of the world expanded even further the following year when IU was contracted by the U.S. Foreign Operations Administration to assist in the development of an Institute of Public Administration at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. From the descri...

Thom, James Alexander.

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Born in Gosport, Indiana, Thom graduated from Butler University and subsequently served in the Marine Corps. After an early career as a reporter and journalist at the Indianapolis Star, he joined the faculty of the Indiana University School of Journalism. His career as a novelist began in the 1970's. Known for the depth and accuracy of his research, Thom was the inaugural winner of the Gene and Marilyn Glick National Indiana Author Award in 2009. His major historical novels include Follow the Ri...

Pierce, Richard.

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Wellborn Hospital Auxiliary

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Briggs Chrysler

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Wright, Charles

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Fick, James

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