History: Indiana, Town of North Manchester and Local | MC2009/34 | Author, Theodore Dreiser, visited North Manchester during the summer of 1915. His observations of the community were included in his autobiography, "A Hoosier Holiday." John Knarr writes about Dreiser's family and includes material on the Snap/Snepp/Sheneb/Shenep/Schneb/Schnebb family as well as on the Fruit family. A second article, "A Trip to Niagara Falls, 1925," was discovered among papers donated to the North Manchester Center for History by Descendants of Ellis and Harold Miller. |
Students: Photographs, 1932 | MC2003/357 | Dean Beery Photograph Collection, including photographs of Manchester College theater, Homecoming, May Day 1932. Many of these pictures are from the 1930's. |