General Histories

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• Greater Terre Haute and Vigo County, Volumes 1 and 2 (1908)*--C. C. Oakey
  (Volume 1 is divided into 2 parts; Volume 2 is divided into 3 parts)
• Historic and Educational Information About Vigo County and Terre Haute, Indiana (1926)
• Historical Industrial Record of the Prairie City (1900) (BOOK)
• Historical Industrial Record of the Prairie City (1994) (INDEX)
• Historical Sketch of Terre Haute, Ind.,--Its Advantages for Manufacture and Attractions as a Home
• History of Early Terre Haute from 1816 to 1840 (1900)*--Condit
• History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922 [author: Logan Esarey];  Also an Account of Vigo County from its Organization [edited by William F. Cronin]*
• History of Vigo and Parke Counties*--H. W. Beckwith  
• The Industrial Advantages of Terre Haute, Indiana (1890)*
• The Wabash Valley Remembers (1938)

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Oral Histories

Click here to access the 50 oral history transcripts in this collection.
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Pictorial Histories

• Album of Terre Haute, Ind. (1886)
• Art Souvenir of Terre Haute, Ind. (1894)
• Pictorial Terre Haute (1903)
• Terre Haute Illustrated (1889)
• Terre Haute Men (n.d.)
• Terre Haute of To-Day (1895)
• Terre Haute of Today (1904)
• Terre Haute To-Day: An Illustrated Story of a Famous City of Western Indiana (1915)
• Terre Haute Up To Date (1896)
• Twentieth Century Souvenir of Terre Haute (1903)

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Periodicals

• Book of Terre Haute
• The Haute Magazine
• Rutherford's Magazine
• Vigo County Journal

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Specialized Materials & Histories

African-American Histories

• An Address at the First Stated Meeting of the Indiana Colonization Society (1829)
• Upon the Political Aspects of the Slavery Question, Speech of R. W. Thompson (1855)

Architecture

• Description of Plans for a New State Capitol (1875)

Biography

• Richard W. Thompson Memorial (1906)
• Some Terre Haute Phizes (1905)

Disasters

• Terre Haute's Tornado and Flood Disaster (1913)

Education

• Public School Education in Terre Haute, Indiana : One Hundred Years of History, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (1924) by William H. Wiley

Fire Department

• Historical Souvenir of the Terre Haute Fire Department (1894)
• Report of the Chief of the Fire Force for the Year (1908)

Fort Harrison

• Fort Harrison: On the Banks of the Wabash, 1812-1912 (1912)

Hospitals

• St. Anthony's Hospital: Its Record of Service and Its Needs for the Future (ca. 1921)
• The Union Hospital 1906-1907 (1907)
• The Union Hospital of Terre Haute, Indiana: A Record of Service During the Past Twenty Years 1910-1930 (1930)

Libraries

• History of the Vigo County Public Library, 1816-1975 (1977)

Maps

• Index of Map of Vigo County, Indiana, 1858 (ca1984)

Newspapers

• The Tribune and A Survey of Terre Haute, Indiana (ca1923)

Parks

• Annual Reports of the Board of Park Commissioners of Terre Haute, Indiana (1910)

Poetry

• The Old Indian Orchard: A Legend (1896) (Note: part of page 13 was missing)

Police Department

• Annual Report of the Superintendent of Police (1904)
• Annual Report of the Superintendent of Police of the City of Terre Haute, Indiana, for the Year 1912 (1913)
• Report of the Superintendent of Police for the Year 1907 (1908)

Post Office

• Official Directory of the Terre Haute, Indiana, Post Office for 1904 (1904)

Theaters

• The Indiana Theatre: An Achievement (ca1922)

Travel accounts

• The Wabash, or Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family, Volume 1 by J. Richard Beste (1855)
• The Wabash, or Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family, Volume 2 by J. Richard Beste (1855)

Women's History:

• The Worth of a Girl by Bertha Pratt King (1916)

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School Publications (calendars, catalogs, yearbooks)

Blackhawk High School:

          1918


Coates College for Women:

Calendars

• 1890, 1891, 1895, 1896

Garfield High School:

Yearbooks: The Benedictus - Not Available for 1918 & 1923

• 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919,
  1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925,
  1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930,
  1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936,
  1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1959

Gerstmeyer Technical High School:

Yearbooks: The Anvil & The Scarabaeus

• 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933

Honey Creek High School:

The Honeycomb

• 1927, 1940

King Crawford Classical School:

Yearbooks

• 1914, 1916

Otter Creek High School:

The Otterian

• 1928

Saint Agnes' Hall:
(Successor to Terre Haute Female College)
 

• 1866?, 1867

Sarah Scott Junior High School:

School Newspaper: The Orange Peel

• 1922-1923

Teachers and Buildings: Public Schools (1894)
 

Terre Haute Female College:
(Predecessor to Saint Agnes' Hall)
 

• 1862, 1864

Vigo Collegiate Institute      

          Catalogue   

West Terre Haute High School:

Yearbooks: The Echo

• 1916, 1920

Wiley High School:

Yearbooks:

      The Red Pepper

          1921, 1922,

      The Red Lantern

        1929, 1930, 

       The Wileyan

       1932, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939
       1940, 1941, 1944, 1954, 1959



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