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Happy Independence Day! The library will be closed on Monday, July 4, for Independence Day.

On Tuesday, July 5, the library will begin a project to replace all the
overhead lighting in the building, changing them to LED fixtures. The library will remain open during all phases of the project but reserves the right to close, if necessary.

MICHIGAN CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY LIGHTING REPLACEMENT PROJECT                 

On Tuesday, July 5, 2022, the library will begin a project to replace all the overhead lighting in the building, changing them to LED fixtures. The new fixtures will feature automatic ambient lighting, centralized controls for turning on and off, and conservation of lighting in unoccupied public areas. A section above the front entrance will have specialized color lighting for seasonal themes. The expected completion date is September 16, 2022. The library will remain open during all phases of the project but reserves the right to close, if necessary.
During the project, areas under the work zone will be closed. The library will make every effort to minimize the closure time to its collections and services in any given area as work proceeds. The meeting rooms will be closed while work is done in them. Please see the library’s website and social media for updates.
This project is a continuation of the remodeling program that started in 2016. The new fixtures will be both energy efficient and aesthetically complimentary to the building while providing warmer lighting for users.

Pamphlet Files

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The pamphlet files are a collection of pamphlets, newspaper clippings and general information pertaining to the history of Michigan City, LaPorte County, and Indiana. The materials cannot be checked out, but can be used within the library.

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List of Pamphlet Files

The following local history files are available:

  • Actors: SEE Baxter, Anne; Dean, James; Keith, Jane
  • African Americans SEE ALSO personal names: Dunlap family; Hatcher, Richard (Mayor); Jones, King S. (Dr.); Sanders, Mayme; Westcott, Charles R.
  • Agriculture
  • Airplanes & Airport
  • Alewives SEE ALSO Fish & Wildlife
  • All-American City Award SEE Awards
  • Allis-Chalmers
  • American Indians SEE Indians of North America
  • Amphitheater SEE Music & Musicians, Washington Park
  • Animal Shelters
  • Archaeology SEE Historic Sites; Housing; Library – 4th Street Building; Keneflick, William K.; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Wright, John Lloyd
  • Art & Artists SEE ALSO Grafton, Robert; Naguib, Mustafa; Noguchi, Isumu; Warren, Karl B.
  • Art Center
  • Audubon SEE Birds of Indiana
  • Authors SEE ALSO Petrakis, Harry Mark; Riley, James Whitcomb; Stratton-Porter, Dorothy
  • Automobiles SEE ALSO Roads, Streets & Highways
  • Awards
  • Bailly Homestead
  • Bailly Generating Station SEE ALSO NIPSCO
  • Bandstand SEE Music & Musicians; Washington Park
  • Banks
  • Barker Mansion SEE ALSO Barker, Catherine; Barker, John H.
  • Baseball SEE ALSO White Caps
  • Basketball
  • Battle of Trail Creek
  • Beach & Lakefront SEE Erosion, Lakefront; Great Lakes; Harbor & Marina
  • Beverly Shores, IN
  • Bicentennials SEE ALSO Centennials, Sesquicentennials
  • Biographical Files SEE Personal Name FIles
  • Birds SEE ALSO Fish & Wildlife
  • Blank, John G., Center for the Arts SEE Art Center
  • Blue Chip Casino SEE Gambling & Casinos
  • Boat Races & Shows SEE ALSO Pan American Games
  • Boxing SEE ALSO Sky Blue Arena
  • Bridges SEE ALSO Covered Bridges
  • Burns Harbor
  • Businesses & Companies SEE ALSO Chamber of Commerce; Labor; business names e.g. South Shore Railroad; business types e.g. Banks
  • Cable Television SEE ALSO Radio & Television Stations
  • CAGIT SEE Taxes
  • Canada Neighborhood SEE Gambling & Casinos; Housing; Michigan City History
  • Canals
  • Capital Punishment SEE Prisons & Prisoners
  • Cargill Elevator
  • Catwalk SEE ALSO Old Lighthouse Museum
  • Cemeteries SEE ALSO Churches and Synagogues; Military Monuments
  • Centennials SEE ALSO Bicentennials; Sesquicentennials
  • Chamber of Commerce
  • Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad SEE South Shore Railroad
  • Churches & Synagogues SEE ALSO Clergy; Cemeteries
  • City Hall SEE Michigan City Government
  • Civil War
  • Clinton Visit – 1996 SEE Clinton, Bill (President) (personal name files)
  • Clergy SEE ALSO Churches & Synagogues
  • Climate SEE Weather & Climate
  • Clubs SEE Organizations
  • Coal SEE Geology
  • Coast Guard SEE ALSO Harbor & Marina; Ships & Shipwrecks
  • Coastal Zone Management Program
  • Commerce Square
  • Community Center for the Arts SEE Art Center
  • Constitution (State) SEE Indiana History
  • County Line Road SEE Roads, Streets and Highways
  • Covered Bridges
  • Crime & Crime Prevention SEE Police & Policing; Prisons & Prisoners; Westside Improvement Group; personal names, e.g. Gunness, Belle
  • Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Doctors SEE ALSO Hospitals
  • Dunes SEE Burns Harbor; Erosion, Lakefront; Harbor & Marina; Hoosier Slide; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Mount Baldy
  • Earthquakes
  • Eastport neighborhood SEE Housing
  • Enterprise Zone
  • Erosion, Lakefront
  • Fires & Firefighters SEE ALSO locations, e.g. Pullman Plant
  • Fish & Wildlife SEE ALSO Birds
  • Football SEE Sports
  • Forests & Trees SEE ALSO Indiana – State Parks & Forests
  • Franklin Square
  • Fried’s Cat Shelter SEE Animal Shelters
  • Friendship Gardens
  • Gary, IN SEE ALSO Hatcher, Richard (Mayor)
  • Geology
  • Golf Courses
  • Great Lakes SEE ALSO Burns Harbor; Erosion, Lakefront; Harbor & Marina; Ships & Shipwrecks
  • Harbor & Marina SEE ALSO Burns Harbor; Indiana Dunes; Washington Park
  • Harborside Homes
  • Haskell & Barker SEE Pullman Plant
  • Hauntings
  • Hesston Steam Museum
  • Highways SEE Roads, Streets and Highways
  • Historic Districts SEE ALSO Franklin Square
  • Historic Sites
  • Historical Societies SEE Bass, Arnold; Indiana Historical Society, LaPorte County, IN; Michigan City Historical Society; Schultz, Fern Eddy
  • History SEE Indiana History; LaPorte COunty CETA History Project; Michigan City History; Settlers
  • Hoosier
  • Hoosier Slide
  • Hospitals SEE ALSO Doctors
  • Hotels
  • Housing SEE ALSO Harborside Homes; specific locations e.g. Beverly Shores
  • Human Rights Commission SEE Michigan City Government – Human Rights Commission
  • Humane Society SEE Animal Shelters
  • Hutchinson Fountain SEE Historic Sites
  • Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore SEE ALSO Mount Baldy
  • Indiana Historical Society
  • Indiana History
  • Indiana – State Capitol
  • Indiana – State Emblems and Flag
  • Indiana – State Parks & Forests SEE ALSO Parks; Forests & Trees
  • Indiana State Prison SEE Prisons & Prisoners
  • Indians of North America SEE ALSO Potawatomie Indians
  • Inter-Urban SEE South Shore Railroad
  • Inventions & Inventors
  • Islam
  • Journalists SEE Authors; Newspapers
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Labor SEE Businesses & Companies; Organizations
  • Lake Michigan SEE Erosion, Lakefront; Great Lakes; Harbor & Marina
  • Lakefront SEE Erosion, Lakefront; Harbor & Marina; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Washington Park
  • Lakeland Neighborhood SEE Housing; Water Supply
  • Landfill
  • LaPorte County, IN
  • LaPorte County Historical Steam Society SEE Hesston Steam Museum
  • LaPorte County CETA History Project
  • La Salle Expedition
  • League of Women Voters
  • Library
  • Library – 4th Street Building
  • Library – Mall Branch
  • Library – Medical
  • Library – Original Building
  • Library – Staff
  • Lighthouse SEE Catwalk; Old Lighthouse Museum
  • Lighthouse Place SEE Outlet Mall
  • Limestone SEE Geology
  • Lubeznik Center for the Arts SEE Art Center
  • Martin Luther King Center
  • Mayors
  • Michiana Humane Society SEE Animal Shelters
  • Michiana Industries
  • Michigan Boulevard area
  • Michigan City Government
  • Michigan City Historical Society SEE ALSO Old Lighthouse Museum
  • Michigan City History SEE ALSO Historic Sites; Indiana History; LaPorte County CETA History Project; Settlers; specific subject headings e.g. Military Monuments; personal names e.g. Barker, John H.
  • Military Monuments SEE ALSO Cemeteries; Bruce, Daniel (PFC)
  • Millennium Riverwalk Park SEE Harbor & Marina
  • Mills
  • Miss Duneland Pageant
  • Moon Valley
  • Mount Baldy SEE ALSO Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
  • Movie Theaters SEE Theaters, Movie
  • Murders SEE Ku Klux Klan; Prisons & Prisoners; personal names e.g. Gunness, Belle; Rison
  • Museums SEE ALSO Art Center; Hesston Steam Museum; Old Lighthouse Museum
  • Music & Musicians SEE ALSO Actors; personal names e.g. Drake, Gene; Nelson, William J.; Wiegand Elizabeth Grieger
  • Naval Armory SEE Washington Park
  • News-Dispatch SEE Newspapers
  • Newspapers & Journalists SEE ALSO Authors; Jurney, Dorothy Misener; Pyle, Ernie
  • NIPSCO SEE ALSO Bailly Plant
  • Oasis Ballroom SEE Washington Park
  • Oil SEE Geology
  • Old Lighthouse Museum SEE ALSO Catwalk
  • Organizations SEE ALSO Businesses & Companies
  • Outlet Mall
  • PACT (Prisoner and Community Together)
  • Pan American Games
  • Parks SEE ALSO Indiana – State Parks and Forests; Washington Park
  • The Patch Neighborhood SEE Harborside Homes
  • Planning – 1926 SEE Michigan City Government
  • Poetry – Local
  • Police & Policing SEE ALSO Prisons & Prisoners
  • Port of Indiana SEE Burns Harbor
  • Post Office
  • Pottawattamie Indians SEE ALSO Indians of North America
  • Pottawattamie Park neighborhood SEE Housing
  • Prisons & Prisoners SEE ALSO PACT
  • Pullman Plant
  • Purdue Northwest (Purdue North Central)
  • Rabbis SEE CLergy; Churches & Synagogues
  • Radio & Television Stations SEE ALSO Cable Television
  • Railroads SEE ALSO South Shore Railroad
  • Revolutionary War SEE Battle of Trail Cree; Daughters of the American Revolution; Military Monuments
  • Riots – 1970 SEE Michigan City History
  • Roads, Streets & Highways SEE ALSO Automobiles; Bridges
  • Sand Mining SEE Geology; Hoosier Slide
  • Schools
  • Schools – Elston High School
  • Schools – History
  • Schools – La Lumiere
  • Schools – Michigan City High School
  • Schools – Parochial
  • Schools – Rogers High School
  • Senators SEE Bayh, Birch; Quayle, Dan
  • Senior Center
  • Sesquicentennials SEE ALSO Bicentennials; Centennials; Indiana History; Michigan City History
  • Settlers SEE ALSO Indiana History; Michigan City History; personal names e.g. Bigelow, Abijah
  • Sheltered Workshop (LaPorte County) SEE Michiana Industries
  • Sheridan Beach neighborhood SEE Housing
  • Ships & Shipwrecks SEE ALSO Coast Guard; Harbor & Marina
  • Sinai Forum
  • Sky Blue Arena (Boxing)
  • Smoot-Walker Feud
  • South Shore Railroad SEE ALSO Railroads
  • Sports SEE ALSO Baseball; Basketball; Boxing; Pan Am Games; personal names e.g. Higdon, Hal
  • Stamps SEE Post Office
  • State Capitol SEE Indiana – State Capitol
  • State Emblem, Flag, Seal SEE Indiana – State Emblems and Flag
  • Streets SEE Roads, Street & Highways
  • Swanson Center
  • Synagogues SEE Churches & Synagogues
  • Telephone & Telegraph
  • Television SEE Cable Television; Radio & Television Stations
  • Theaters, Community
  • Theatres, Movie
  • Tornadoes SEE ALSO Weather – Storms
  • Trail Creek, IN SEE ALSO Battle of Trail Creek; Bridges; Harbor & Marina; Watter Supply
  • Trees SEE Forests & Trees
  • Trolley to the Dunes SEE Railroads
  • Underground Railroad
  • United Telephone Co. of Indiana SEE Telephone & Telegraph
  • Washington Park SEE ALSO Harbor & Marina
  • Water Supply
  • Weather & Climate SEE ALSO Erosion, Lakeshore; Tornadoes
  • Weather – Storms SEE ALSO Tornadoes
  • West Side Improvement Group
  • White Caps (baseball)
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • WPA
  • Zoo SEE Washington Park Zoo

Biographical Files (Personal Names):

  • Ames, George
  • Appleseed, Johnny
  • Barker, Catherine & Margery
  • Barker, John
  • Baxter, Anne
  • Bayh, Birch
  • Bendix, Vincent
  • Bigelow, Abijah
  • Bowen, Otis R. (Governor)
  • Bowser, Anita
  • Boyd, William
  • Bramble, Maggie
  • Brown, Annie, “Ma”
  • Bruce, Daniel, PFC
  • Clark, George Rogers
  • Clinton, Bill (President)
  • Colfax family (Harriet E. Colfax, Harriet R. Colfax, John Colfax, Rose Hartwell Colfax, Ann C. Hartwell, John B. Sherman, Mason G. Sherman, Harriet Sherman Van Pelt)
  • Dean, James
  • Debs, Eugene V.
  • Diana of the Dunes (Alice Gray)
  • Drake, Gene
  • Dunlap, Sel, and Family
  • Eddy, Captain William C.
  • Elston, Isaac C.
  • Finley, Charlie O.
  • Grafton, Robert
  • Greenbaum, Walter K.
  • Grissom, Virgil
  • Gunness, Belle
  • Harrison, Benjamin and William
  • Hatcher, Richard (Mayor)
  • Heisman, Henry “Dad”
  • Herbert, Hugo
  • Hesburgh, Theodore (Reverend)
  • Higdon, Hal
  • Hiler, John (Representative)
  • Hopkins, Ann
  • Jones, King S. (Dr.)
  • Joseph, Michael
  • Jurney, Dorothy Misener
  • Keith, Jane (Keithley)
  • Kenefick, William
  • Kennedy, Robert F.
  • Kitchell, Edna P.
  • Lilienthal, David
  • Lincoln, Abraham
  • Lyons, Lawrence James
  • MacAlvay, Nora
  • Marquette, Jacques (Father)
  • Miller, Harry B.
  • Miller, John Franklin
  • Moyer, John W.
  • Munger, Elizabeth Banks
  • Naguib, Mustafa
  • Nelson, William J. (Billy)
  • Nicewarner, Gladys Bull
  • Noguchi, Isamu
  • Orr, Joseph C.
  • Petrakis, Harry Mark
  • Pizarek, Edward, and family
  • Porter, Gene Stratton SEE Stratton-Porter, Gene
  • Pyle, Ernie
  • Pytynia, Mike
  • Quayle, Dan
  • Raisor, Dr. Robert (SEE Smoot-Walker Feud)
  • Replogle, Albert (fishing lures)
  • Rison, Rayna
  • Roberts, John Jr.
  • Roeske Family
  • Rubinelli, Andrea
  • Rumely Family
  • Sanders, Mayme
  • Scholl, Dr. William
  • Schultz, Fern Eddy
  • Sherman, John B., and Sherman, Mason G. SEE Colfax family
  • Smith, A.K.
  • Stern, Fred
  • Stratton-Porter, Gene
  • Van Pelt, Harriet Sherman SEE Colfax family
  • Warren, Karl
  • Wiegand, Elizabeth Grieger
  • Winski, Nate
  • Witte family
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd SEE ALSO Baxter, Anne
  • Wright, John Lloyd
  • Zmuda, Kathleen
  • Zorn, Philip

Pamphlet File Research by Mail

A librarian can search pamphlet files by request and send you the results through the mail. There is a $5.00 fee for each pamphlet file searched. Requests must be submitted in writing to:

Michigan City Public Library
100 E. 4th Street
Michigan City, IN 46360

Please include:

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–SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope)
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