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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.

Search the index of materials in the pamphlet/information files below.



 

List of Pamphlet Files

The following local history files are available:

  • African Americans
  • Agriculture
  • Airplanes & Airport
  • Alewives
  • Allis-Chalmers
  • Animal Shelters
  • Archaeology
  • Art & Artists
  • Art Center
  • Authors
  • Automobiles
  • Awards
  • Bailly Homestead
  • Bailly Generating Plant
  • Banks
  • Barker Mansion
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Beverly Shores, IN – World’s Fair Homes
  • Bicentennials
  • Birds of Indiana
  • Boat Races & Shows
  • Boxing
  • Bridges
  • Burns Harbor
  • Businesses & Companies
  • Cable Television
  • Canals
  • Cargill Elevator
  • Catwalk
  • Cemeteries
  • Centennials
  • Chamber of Commerce
  • Churches & Synagogues
  • City Plan 1926
  • Civil War
  • Clergy
  • Coast Guard
  • Coastal Zone Management Program
  • Commerce Square
  • Covered Bridges
  • Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Doctors
  • Earthquakes
  • Enterprise Zone
  • Erosion, Lakefront
  • Fires & Firefighters
  • Fish & Wildlife
  • Forests & Trees
  • Franklin Square
  • Friendship Gardens
  • Gambling & Casinos
  • Gary, IN
  • Geology
  • Golf Courses
  • Great Lakes
  • Harbor & Marina
  • Harborside Homes
  • Hauntings
  • Hesston Steam Society
  • Historic Districts
  • Historic Sites
  • Hoosier
  • Hoosier Slide
  • Hospitals
  • Hotels
  • Housing
  • Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore / National Park
  • Indiana Historical Society
  • Indiana History
  • Indiana History – Maps
  • Indiana – State Capitol
  • Indiana – State Emblems and Flag
  • Indiana – State Parks & Forests
  • Indians of North America
  • Inventions & Inventors
  • Islam
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Landfill
  • LaPorte County, IN
  • 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
  • Martin Luther King Center
  • Mayors
  • Michiana Industries
  • Michigan Boulevard area
  • Michigan City Government
  • Michigan City Government – Human Rights Commission
  • Michigan City Historical Society
  • Michigan City History
  • Military Monuments
  • Mills
  • Miss Duneland Pageant
  • Moon Valley
  • Mount Baldy
  • Museums
  • Music & Musicians
  • Newspapers & Journalists
  • NIPSCO
  • Old Lighthouse Museum
  • Organizations
  • Outlet Mall
  • PACT (Prisoner and Community Together)
  • Pan American Games
  • Parks
  • Poetry – Local
  • Police & Policing
  • Post Office
  • Potawatomi Indians
  • Prisons & Prisoners
  • Pullman Plant
  • Purdue Northwest (Purdue North Central)
  • Radio & Television Stations
  • Railroads
  • Roads, Streets & Highways
  • Schools
  • Schools – Elston High School
  • Schools – History
  • Schools – La Lumiere
  • Schools – Michigan City High School
  • Schools – Parochial
  • Schools – Rogers High School
  • Schools – St. Mary’s
  • Senior Center
  • Sesquicentennials
  • Settlers
  • Ships & Shipwrecks
  • Sinai Forum
  • Sky Blue Arena (Boxing)
  • Smoot-Walker Feud
  • South Shore Railroad
  • Sports
  • Swanson Center
  • Taxes
  • Telephone & Telegraph
  • Theaters, Community
  • Theatres, Movie
  • Tornadoes
  • Trail Creek, IN
  • Underground Railroad
  • Urban Renewal
  • Washington Park
  • Washington Park Zoo
  • Water Supply
  • Weather & Climate
  • Weather – Storms
  • West Side Improvement Group
  • White Caps (baseball)
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • WPA

Biographical Files (Personal Names):

  • Ames, George
  • Anderson, Naomi
  • Appleseed, Johnny
  • Barker, Catherine & Margery
  • Barker, John
  • Bass, Arnold
  • 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)
  • 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, 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
  • Pyle, Ernie
  • Pytynia, Mike
  • Quayle, Dan
  • Replogle, Albert (fishing lures)
  • Riley, James Whitcomb
  • Rison, Rayna
  • Roberts, John Jr.
  • Roeske Family
  • Rubinelli, Andrea
  • Rumely Family
  • Sanders, Mayme
  • Scholl, Dr. William
  • Schultz, Fern Eddy
  • Smith, A.K.
  • Stern, Fred
  • Stratton-Porter, Gene
  • Warren, Karl
  • Westcott, Charles
  • 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:

–the details of your search request
–SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope)
–Check or money order payable to Michigan City Public Library – $5.00 per file searched

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