Indiana Memory - Digital Collection
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Indiana Memory was created by Indiana State Library to bring together original source documents of the history of Indiana. Institutions from across the state contribute to this online digital project.
Hoosier State Chronicles is Indiana's digital historic newspaper program. Beginning in 2007, Charlestown Clark County Public Library began digitizing its collection and adding it to Indiana Memory. We are continuously adding items. The library has two collections on Indiana Memory. Jesse G. Dorsey World War II Correspondence
The collection contains a few objects that help tell the story of how Dorsey and the Speed, Indiana community supported the war effort.
Greetings From Home Christmas 1943, Sellersburg, Indiana Read about the Jesse G. Dorsey Collection and the history of the Louisville Cement Company. This collection is kept at the Sellersburg Library. |
Clark County Collection
This collection contains thousands of items of Clark County history. There are maps, letters, newsletters, ledgers, Civil War letters, photographs, documents, brochures, yearbooks, personal documents, church histories and much more. As the digitization of additional items is completed, they will be added. The original items are kept in Charlestown Library Special Collections (unless otherwise noted below) and can be viewed upon request. Here are links to some groups of items in the collection.
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This collection contains 1791 letters, postcards, greeting cards, photographs, scrapbooks and more that Jesse Dorsey collected during World War II. Dorsey, who worked for the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana, began a letter writing campaign to area soldiers. He kept those letters and later donated his collection to Sellersburg Library.
