History Harvest Artifacts
Each of the historical artifacts below is drawn from an archive in the Bloomington area. Its presence in this exhibit is inspired by one of the items gathered as students in our class wrote their own histories in preparation for our class History Harvest.
Caricature Painting
Indiana University ArchivesThis caricature painting deals with a single subject and means to exaggerate features and distinctions of the individual
Postcard of Cycling Club at IU
Lilly LibraryThis is a postcard that shows people biking, an old hobby at IU.
Professional Family Photo
Indiana University Office of University Archives and Records ManagementThis picture includes members of Clarence Flaten's family in a proffesional studio.
Photo of Family and Friends in front of house
Indiana University Office of University Archives and Records ManagementThis picture includes members of Clarence Flaten's family and friends and was taken at their house on South Washington St. in Bloomington.
Gerardo M. Gonzalez papers, 1952-2018, bulk 1961-1963
IU ArchivesThe collection, which includes this birth certificate, is a series of photos and papers that discusses Gonzalez’s upbringing, along with his academic career and his family’s emigration from Cuba to...
Hat With Pins
Monroe County History CenterThis hat is covered in various pins, many relating to the Olympics.
1950s Payphone Booths
Indiana Memorial UnionThese payphone booths provided an easily accessible way for students to call outside the campus, serving as a nostalgic relic of a bygone past.
Instructional Technology and Media For Learning
IU archivesThis textbook shows how different forms of technology/media can be integrated into a classroom to promote education from the perspective of the instructor.
Iudancerecords
IU Online ArchivesThis is a collection of records from the IU Dance Program, the earliest dating back to 1927. These records are composed of newspaper clippings, program booklets, photographs, and other forms...
First Interlocking "IU"
Wells LibraryDrawing inside of the 1898 arbutus yearbook that represents the first interlocking IU. Claude McD. Hamilton had his name written on the bottom of this image because he was in...
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
Monroe County History CenterBound in brown hard leather with embossed designs and gold lettering on spine. Embossed designs and seal of Eclectic Educational Series.
The Niagara Puzzle, (with File & Compass)
Lilly LibraryThis box-shaped puzzle asks the user to aim several small metal balls into a small hole in one corner.
OES Calendar
Mathers MuseumThis cloth calendar looks handmade and represents the Order of the Eastern Star
