MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
Education
High School Yearbooks
Indiana - Albion
The Torch, 1961. Albion-Jefferson High School, Albion, Indiana. 101 pages. Hardcover. Inscription: "Joan M. Vice".
Contains many photographs and notations from fellow students.
Price: $6.00
The Torch, 1962. Albion-Jefferson High School, Albion, Indiana. 104 pages. Hardcover. Inscription: "Joan M. Vice".
Contains many photographs and notations from fellow students.
Price: $6.00
Indiana - Anderson
Cutlass, 1964. Madison Heights Junior High School, Anderson, Indiana. 58 pages. Hardcover.
Contains many photographs and notations from fellow students.
Price: $6.00
Treasure Chest, 1965. Madison Heights High School. Anderson, Indiana. 167 pages. Hardcover.
Contains hundreds of photographs and dozens of inscriptions.
Price: $10.00
Indiana - Columbus
Echoes, 1978. Central Junior High School, Columbus, Indiana. 79 pages. Hardcover. Note: Inscription: "Jeff Williams",
Contains many photographs, notes and signatures.
Price: $6.00
Indiana - East Chicago
The Senior Anvil: 1926. Washington High School, East Chicago, Indiana. 164 pages. Hardcover. Note: inscribed "Owen Nesbit '26".
Lots of photographs. Nesbit must have been very interested in the class. He marked many of the photographs with the year of their deaths.
Price: $17.50
Indiana - Elkhart
Add Vantage: Pennant Annual, 1985. Elkhart High School. 198 p. Hardcover.
Price: $6.00
Indiana - Goshen
The Echo, 1972. Clinton Christian High School, Goshen, Indiana. 134 pages. Hardcover.
Price: $6.00
The Echo, 1974. Clinton Christian School, Goshen, Indiana. 132 pages. Hardcover. Lots of photographs.
Price $6.00
The Witmarsum, 1962 Bethany Christian High School, Goshen, Indiana I17 pages. Hardcover.
Lots of photographs.
Price: $6.00
The Witmarsum. 1964. Bethany Christian High School, Goshen, Indiana. 128 pages. Hardcover. .
Lots of photographs.
Price: $6.00
Indiana - Kokomo
Sargasso, 1929. The Student Annual of Kokomo High School. 180 pages plus. 2 pages of advertising.
Contains many signatures.
Price: $17.50
Indiana - La Porte
The Maple, 1903. La Porte High School. La Porte, Indiana. 121 pages plus 8 pages of advertisements.
Contains many photographs
Price: $28.50
El-Pe, 1953. La Porte High School, La Porte, Indiana. 96 pages. Hardcover.
Lots of photographs and inscriptions from fellow students.
Price: $17.50
El-Pe, 1970. La Porte High School, La Porte, Indiana. 232 p. Hardcover.
Note: Small tear on spine.
Price: $10.00
El-Pe, 1971. La Porte High School, La Porte, Indiana. 240 p. Hardcover.
Contains many photographs.
Price: $10.00
El-Pe, 1972. La Porte High School, La Porte, Indiana 208 p. Hardcover.
Contains many photographs.
Price: $10.00
Indiana - Mishawaka
The Miskodeed for 1925. The Memory Book of the Seniors Published by the Graduate Class of Mishawaka High School. 129 pages.
Contains many photographs. Some foxing on inside front flyleaves. Rare. Back fly leaves contain handwritten names of teachers and fellow students.
Price: $17.50
Indiana - South Bend
The Album, 1955. John Adams High School. 96 pages.
Inscribed "Barb Dickey "'57". Contains many photographs and signatures.
Price: $15.00
Hi-Way, 1964. St. Joseph's High School, South Bend, Indiana. 175 pages. Hardcover.
Contains many photographs.
Price: $10.00
Hi-Way, 1966. St. Joseph's High School, South Bend, Indiana. 176 pages. Hardcover.
Contains two dried roses. Lots of photographs.
Price: $10.00
Indiana - Syracuse
Sunathleo, 1972 - 1973. Syracuse Christian Schools, Syracuse, Indiana. 40 pages. Hardcover.
Lots of photographs.
Price: $6.00
Colleges and Universities
Illinois
Armour Institute of Technology
The Cycle, 1925. Assembled and Published by the Class of 1926 of the Armour Institute of Technology. Chicago. 273 pages. Hardcover.
Contains hundreds of photographs of the Institute and its students.
Price: $30.00
Bradley Polytechnic Institute
The 1924 Polyscope. Assembled and Published by the Class of 1924 of Bradley Polotechnic Institute. Peoria. 270 pages. Hardcover.
Contains hundreds of photographs of the Institute and its students.
Inscription: "Cecil Bloom, Bradley Technological" Some wear on front hinge of spine.
Price: $30.00
Indiana
Anderson College
Morrison, John A. As the River Flows. The Autobiography of john A. Morrison, First President of Anderson College. Anderson College Press. Anderson, Indiana. 1962. 214 pages. Softcover.
Note: slight tear at bottom of spine. Quotation at back of book.
Price: $5.00
Goshen College
Maple Leaf. 1934. 107 pages. Hardcover.
Hundreds of photographs. Contains the names of each of the faculty members, their background, and city of each of the students in all four undergraduate years.
Price: $20.00
Maple Leaf. 1970. 191 pages. Hardcover.
Thousands of photographs. Contains the names and city of each of the students in all four undergraduate years.
Price: $10.00
Maple Leaf. 1974. 167 pages. Hardcover.
Thousands of photographs. Contains the names and city of each of the students in all four undergraduate years.
Price: $10.00
Maple Leaf. 1978-79. 160 pages. Hardcover.
Thousands of photographs. Contains the names and city of each of the students in all four undergraduate years.
Price: $10.00
Maple Leaf. 1983. 176 pages. Hardcover.
Thousands of photographs. Contains the names and city of each of the students in all four undergraduate years.
Price: $10.00
Maple Leaf. 1984. 176 pages. Hardcover.
Thousands of photographs. Contains the names and city of each of the students in all four undergraduate years.
Price: $10.00
Indiana State Teachers College
A History of Indiana State Teachers College. (Indiana State Normal School, 1870 - 1929). By William O. Lynch. Indiana State Teachers College. 1946. 438 pages. Hardcover.
Discusses early colleges in Indiana, creation of the school's board, growth of the school, teachers, etc.
Price: $12.50
Indiana University
Farewells. By William Lowe Bryan. Indiana University. 1938. 166 pages. Hardcover.
Bryan was professor of philosophy at Indiana University from 1885 to 1902, acted as vice-president 1983 to 1902, and president of Indiana University for thirty five years. This book contains 18 commencement addresses and reprints of 156 newspaper columns.
Price: $8.00
Last Words. By William Lowe Bryan and Charlotte Lowe Bryan. Indiana University Foundation. 1951. 87 pages. Hardcover.
Selected articles from previously published books and several addresses by William and Charlotte Lowe Bryan. Charlotte Lowe married William Bryan in 1889. She was outstanding graduate of Indiana University , majoring in Greek and Mathematics. She translated several Greek plays and mathematical books into English with critical acclaim.
Price: $8.00
Indiana University, Midwestern Pioneer. By Thomas D. Clark. 3 volumes. Hardcover Indiana University Press. Vol. 1: The Early Years. 1970. 371 pages. Vol. 2: In Mid-Passage. 1973. 429 pages. Vol. 3: Years of Fulfillment. 1977. 678 pages. Note: volumes 2 and 3 have inscription "Rive Todd, 1977".
Traces the history of the university from its growth as a tiny, narrow, and impoverished seminary in the early nineteenth century to a large modern university. Discusses educational philosophy, people, departments, the sexual revolution, and much more.
Price: Vol. 1: $20.00
Vol. 2: $20.00
Vol. 3: $30.00
Discount Price for the entire set: $60.00
The Lilly Library: The First Quarter Century, 1960 - 1985. Lilly Library. 1985. 157 pages. Softcover.
Gives an account of the creation of the library, the great rare books, manuscripts, and special collections that have been assembled by the library over the past 25 years, and several dozen black and white as well as color photographs of rare books.
Price: $6.00
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Bloxsome, John L. Rose: The First One Hundred Years. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Terre Haute. 1973. 197 pages. Hardcover.
This is copy 3,827 of 5,020 copies. Dust jacket is present but has some ear.
This book is a chronicle of the history of the oldest privately supported engineering college west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Price: $17.50
St. Mary's College
Madaleva, Sister M. C. S. C. My First Seventy Years. MacMillan Company. 1959. 172 pages. 1
st printing. With dust jacket. Some tears on dust jacket.This is an autobiography of the former President of St. Mary's College. Born Mary Evaline Wolff, in 1887, the author discusses her grandparent's migration from Germany to New York and then to Milwaukee, the courting of her parents, her father's harness making shop, where she met Chippewa Indians who brought him buckskins. She progresses through her early years in school and family, with fond memories of her childhood and early attempts at poetry. ((She won the National Poetry Center Award in 1948). She explains how she chose to attend St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana and how it helped her to focus on her future role as a nun, a teacher and a future college president.
Price: $7.50
A Panorama: 1844 - 1977. Saint Mary's College Notre Dame, Indiana. By Sister Mary Immaculate, C. S. C. (Helen Creek). Saint Mary's College. 1977 pages. 301 pages. Hardcover.
Sister Mary Immaculate attended St. Mary's College as a student in the class of 1930, entered the novitiate of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross before taking a degree and a few years later received a B. A. in English from St. Mary's. With only a few interruptions she taught at St. Mary's for more than thirty years. This book covers the early history of the Holy Cross Order in France, the move to Bertrand, Michigan, and then to Notre Dame, Indiana, and the slow growth into a major college. Discusses the transition into the turbulent 1960's and 1970's, the change in the college's publications, the first Priest-President of the college, and much more.
Price: $8.00
St. Mary's College - Yearbooks
Blue Mantle, '88. 207 pages. Hardcover.
Contains hundreds of photographs.
Price: $15.00
University of Notre Dame
Sorin of Notre Dame. Edward Sorin, C. S. C., 1814 - 1893, an Anthology in Memoriam. Edited by M. Myers. Introduction by Rev. Anthony R. Grasso. Bristol Banner Books. 1991. 211 pages. Softcover.
The 11 page introduction provides a brief biography of Fr. Sorin. The remaining pages are a compilation of many short poems, most of which neither discuss Sorin or refer to him. No reason is given for the selection of any of the poems and no information is given about "M. Myers" identity.
Price: $6.00
Dowling, Mary Pat. Grotto Stories. From the Heart of Notre Dame. Published with the cooperation and support of the University of Notre Dame Alumni Association by MarySunshine Books. Second printing. 1998. No pagination. (88 pages).
Provides a brief history of the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, but concentrates on the stories and letters of those who visited the Grotto for consolation, answers to difficult decisions, guidance, inspiration, and prayer. Many of the stories are heart-warming and truly touching. Anyone who has visited the Grotto understands its overpowering beauty and the peace which it gives.
Price: $12.95
White, Joseph M. Sacred Heart Parish at Notre Dame. A Heritage and History. Sacred Heart Parish. Notre Dame, Indiana. 1992. 112 pages. Hardcover.
Brings to life the me and women who gave so unselfishly to the parish as it grew from a small log cabin to a basilica.
Price: $15.00
Valparaiso University
Stimpson, George W. The Story of Valparaiso University. Including an Account of the Recent Period of Turbulence. Published by the author. 1921. 167 pages. Hardcover.
Traces the beginning of the university and its transfer from the Brown family to a Board of Trustees.
Price: $17.50
Wabash College
Mills, Frank Moody. Early Days in a College Town and Wabash College in Early Days and Now. With Autobiographical Reminiscences. Sessions Printing co. Sioux Falls. 1924. 289 pages. Hardcover.
This is not a history of either Crawfordsville, or of Wabash College. It is partially an autobiography and a collectin of reminiscence of incidents and facts about the town and county and people, and the College and its students.
Price: $25.00
Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Wrobel, Sylvia. The First Hundred Years of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, 1870 - 1970. College of Pharmacy. 1972. 207 pages. Softcover.
Discusses the founding of the college, its move from Louisville to Lexington and listings of faculty. Contains many photographs.
Price: $7.95