Indiana Crate Books

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[LLINOIS / INDIANA / KENTUCKY]  CRATE 14 BOOK 4:  ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORIC FOLKLORE ALONG THE LINCOLN HERITAGE TRAIL FROM SPRINGFIELD, KENTUCKY TO SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.  Indiana Junior Historical Society, Kentucky Young Historians Association and the Council of Illinois Student Historians have collaborated in the compiling and publishing of this work. 1970. As the students studied the area throughout which Thomas Lincoln’s family, including the young Abe Lincoln, traveled, it became apparent to the students that certain architectural styles were spread among all three of these states while others are limited to two or even one of the states.  The booklet is organized by these styles, but it consists of photos of examples of certain styles of architecture with examples and details of their history.  Of course, they picked up on the stories and folklore that came with the photos.  As a genealogist, I was most interested in the locations of the dwellings pictured and found several that my ancestors were likely to have seen.  Some lazy summer day I plan to take a trip to see some of these.  Owner’s names were usually given for the buildings pictured.  Some are even public buildings.  Fascinating study!  44 pp., cardstock cover, folded, stapled, over 100 historic buildings with some information on each.  WAS $8  SALE PRICE $5

[INDIANA / GOVERNORS / PAINTERS] CRAZY CRATE 86 BOOK 5:  PORTRAIT AND PAINTERS OF THE GOVERNORS OF INDIANA 1800-1978:  By Wilbur D. Peat, revised, edited and with new entries by Diane Gail Lazurus of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.  Biographies of the Governors by Lana Ruegamer, Indiana Historical Society.  Indiana Historical Society and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1978 Softbound, 104 pages, 7” by 10”.   This book has lovely quality photos of each governor’s portrait and a one-page biography of him and his major achievements while in office.

There is also a nice biography of the painter of the portrait.  If you teach Indiana History this would be a lovely addition to your library. It would be nice if every fourth grade teacher who teaches Indiana History had a copy of this book in her classroom!    $10

[ILLINOIS / INDIANA / CEMETERIES / VERMILION COUNTY, IL / VERMILLION COUNTY, IN / BENTON COUNTY, IN]CRAZY CRATE 86  BOOK 6:  ILLIANA RESEARCH REPORT #1, Edited by James V. Gill, 1966, Illiana Genealogical Publishing Company, 47 pages, $9.  This book contains the following information from Illinois and Indiana, check out the 1840 Federal Census of over 600 pensioners from both states. For Vermilion County, Illinois. you can check out the Lynch Cemetery, the Ingersoll Cemetery and the Niccum Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions.  Includes Abstract of Newspaper Death Notices from the Danville Daily Newspaper,  April 19, 1906 and a Bride’s and a Groom’s index as well as the Early Marriages 1826-1830. 

For Vermillion County, Indiana, you can check out Newport Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions and for Benton County you can check out Totheroh Cemetery Inscriptions and a Genealogical Abstract of published biographies of Hickory Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, families.  Not much but names, dates and places but lots of those are here.  Isn’t that what we want? $9 

[INDIANA / EVANSVILLE / HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY] CRAZY CRATE 86  BOOK 10:  CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL – ITS FIRST HUNDRED YEARS.  1854-1954.  By Henry A. Meyer. Evansville, Indiana.  Published by the Centennial Committee, Evansville, Indiana, 1954, 225 pages, 6 1.2” by 10”, leatherette cover marred on lower left front cover by removal of a label or tape of a strip 1” x 2”. Good condition.  Ex-lib.  $15.  This is not a high school yearbook.  This is a thorough history of this school covering its buildings, its principals, its teachers and what it accomplished.  I was totally surprised not to find a list of its graduates, but, perhaps, that was put in another book.  This is a HISTORY of which any school, its principals, its faculty and its graduates would be proud.  $15

CRAZY CRATE 152  BOOK 3:  THE OLD NORTHWEST PIONEER PERIOD 1815-1840.  By R. Carlyle Buley.  The story of Indiana and her early development in two volumes. Hardbound. New. $40 for the set.  Volume I.  632 pages cover New Homes in the West; Two New States – Indiana and Illinois; The Settler and the Land; Pioneer Life—The Material Side; Ills, Cures and Doctors; Pioneer Life—Social and Cultural Backgrounds; Trade, Travel and Transportation; Money, Banking and State Finance, 1815-1836.  Volume II with 686 pages covers Personal Politics and Republican Solidarity 1815-1825; The North Settles 1825-1840—Michigan and Wisconsin Territory; Political History 1825-1840; Economic History 1836-1840; Schools, Teachers, and Education; Religion, Literature – Science – Reform; and a Bibliographical Essay plus an index.  These books were the Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1950.  For the time period covered by these books they are the best reading!  They need to be read by all who have ancestors living in this state during this time period in order for you to understand the conditions they lived under and the tremendous contributions they made to our state.  Great value too!  Both volumes, over 1300 pages, are new.  Several sets are available with dust jackets slightly worn from shelf use.  Both volumes for $40.

 

 

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