Michigan City News-Dispatch 1992 through current. OBITUARY FILE: Mostly from La Porte Herald-Argus mid-1930s to current. SCHOOL RECORDS: Photographs of schools and school groups, historical data, graduation announcements, teacher licenses and contract ledgers, county school yearbooks, collection of La Porte High School yearbooks including some before start of El-Pe, abstractions of enumerations (1840s), La Porte High School Alumnus Directory 1869-1947, collection from Michigan City schools (Elston, Rogers, Michigan City High School), Marquette High School, private schools. and Union Twp.ĬHURCH RECORDS: Histories, minutes, list of members and photographs.
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Michigan City Illustrated, 1900, Evening News.La Porte, Indiana: First 100 Years, 1832-1932, Centennial Edition.La Porte County, Indiana and Its Townships, Towns, and Cities, 1876, Packard.Pictorial & Biographical Record of La Porte, Porter, Lake & Starke Counties, 1894, Goodspeed.20th Century History and Biographical Record of La Porte County, 1904, Rev.La Porte, Indiana and Its Environs, Schultz & Rodgers.History of La Porte County, 1880, Chapman.1927 History of the Lake and Calumet Region of Indiana, Counties of Lake, Porter, and La Porte, Vols.Index of Names of Persons and Firms in La Porte County, Indiana (WPA): LA PORTE COUNTY BIRTH & DEATH RECORD INDICES: 1882-1920 (WPA), including Michigan City. Early marriage applications starting in 1890. LA PORTE COUNTY CENSUS INDICES: 1850 abstraction in book form. This collection enhances the Society’s files which include these and many other topics. NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS: Private collection donated to the Society is topically arranged covering a broad spectrum of categories including agriculture, archaeology, biography, cemeteries, chronology, commerce, inventions, lakes, libraries, music, newspapers, schools, social clubs and lodges, townships, veterans, weather, and others. PHOTOGRAPHS: Extensive collection of photographs of historical and genealogical interest such as buildings, schools, school groups, churches, houses, industries, individuals, retail stores, and much more.
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Collection of telephone directories is also shelved. This collection will expand with current donations.ĭIRECTORIES: Earliest La Porte city directory is 1859 and collection is considerable through current years for La Porte and County including Michigan City, earliest being 1890. Some of the collection is in file folders, and some is in book form.
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Each card contains individual veteran records, including family and military service information as available, and name of the cemetery where buried.įAMILY HISTORIES (BOUND & MANUSCRIPT): Donated family history files may contain obituaries, family group sheets, photographs, and legal documents. Please stop by the Reference Desk or call 21 for more information on interlibrary loan.VETERAN GRAVE REGISTRATIONS: Card file of information about veterans buried in the county. Please visit the state library site for a complete list of their newspaper holdings. The Indiana State Library lends microfilm reels of Indiana newspapers to libraries across the country. Three microfilm reader/printers are available to use within the library. LaPorte County Herald-Dispatch: – Present.Michigan City Enterprise (individual issues):.STEAM Ahead Kids Summer Reading Program.MCPL Podcast: Discussions with Miss Dana.