Wetherill Archive Highlight: The Sterling R. McElwaine Collection TCHA has over 200 processed collections in the Richard B. Wetherill Archives. Each of these collections is carefully inventoried and studied by staff and volunteers at TCHA in order to create a finding aid that will assist researchers in finding the information they need. One of the […]
The Perrins and Their Avenue By Kitty Koehler and Phyllis Dix This article first appeared in the TCHA newsletter, Weatenotes, Vol. x, No. 5, June-July 1976 A year before the city of Lafayette was laid out, a man named Newberry Stockton purchased a Certificate of Entry from the U.S. Government for a tract of ground […]
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, […]