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Friday, January 9
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Central 9am-6pm
East 9am-6pm
McCollough 9am-6pm
North Park 9am-6pm
Oaklyn 9am-6pm
Red Bank 9am-6pm
Stringtown 9am-6pm
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Indiana Historical Maps, 1814 -1899

Date - "label title" - map title - publisher/cartographer - features - (w" X h") - features - (w" X h") - location (Indiana Room unless otherwise noted and in red, " Map Drawer" refers to the Map Case in Indiana Room)


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Historic Indiana - historic sites, turnpikes, traces, National Road, canals, forts, Indian villages - drawings of historic buildings inset around edge. (20 x 26) Map Drawer 7

Nd
(atlas)

Glacial Deposits of Indiana after Frank Leverett, p. 28 in Studies in Indiana Geography, ed. By Charles Redway Dryer (1906) - showing Wisconsin Drift boundary, glacial boundary, moraines, striae, beach line 917.72 D79

nd

Historic New Harmony, walking tour of historic buildings with keyed list (19 x 17 ½ )
Map Drawer 7

1814-1825

Harmony on the Wabash by Wallrath Weingartner drawings of buildings, owners(?) of houses, labeled in German with keyed list (19 ¾ x 26) Map Drawer 7

c1820

New Harmony: Map and Scenes Depicting The Harmonists Era, 1814-1824 published by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Indiana (map copied from "A Plan of the Town of Harmonie in Posey County, Ind. The property of Frederick Rapp" by William Pickerin, November 5, 1824 - shows footprint of buildings, fields, crops, names of occupants - drawings of buildings, clothing added by Colonial Dames (22 ½ X 17 ½) Map Drawer 7

1824

"New Harmony Indiana in 1824 As built by the Rappites, and occupied by them at the time of their departure" - buildings identified by purpose, homes show occupant, fields by crop (18 x 22)
Map Drawer 7

pre-1860

Illustrated Historical Map of Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick Counties before 1869, prepared by The Evansville Museum of Arts & Science for Our Country's 200th Birthday (with historical trivia inset in border) showing traces, plank roads, rivers and creeks, , settlements, Indian villages, sites of historic events, buildings (21 x 29) Map Drawer 6

1876
(atlas)

Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, published by Baskin, Forster & Co county maps show roads, railroads, creeks, lakes, post offices, settlements, and some large landowners - city plans show street names and wards - county histories, paid illustrations, portraits, biographies - Indiana history and statistics - patrons list gives name, business, date of birth, and date came to Indiana 912.772 IL29 -( Oversize) [Maps of Indiana Counties in 1876 - reprints by Indiana Historical Society. 1968 showing county maps only (912.772 In and 912.773 MAPS)] [Indiana 1876 by Donald G. Gradeless - separate index to towns, villages and post offices -912.772 I]

1880

"Indiana. Railroad and township" Railroad and Township Map of Indiana compiled & engraved by H. R. Page & Co. showing railroad lines, stations, towns, counties, townships (15 ¼ X 21 ¼) Map Drawer 7