Collection ID: VAA4026
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Summary

Creator:
New Harmony (Ind.) Working Men's Institute.
Extent:
91 Folders
Language:
Materials are in English , French , and Spanish .

Background

Scope and Content:

Correspondence relating to New Harmony, the New Harmony Community and the activities of William Maclure, Marie D. Fretageot, Robert Owen, and others connected with the community, as well as two sets of minutes from November 1825-February 1826: the Proceedings of the Preliminary Society and the Minutes of the Convention for Forming a Constitution for the Society at New Harmony.

Arrangement:

Series I is the correspondence from the beginning of the town in 1814 to 1871. It includes 90 folders. This finding aid covers 1814-1844 (63 folders). The exception is that the extensive correspondence between William Maclure and Madame Fretageot has been pulled out and is housed separately as a Series IM. This series has been completely transcribed and annotated by Josephine Elliott. Series IM is predominantly in French.

Series 2-13 include various New Harmony Community records. Series III is the Proceedings of the Preliminary Society and Minutes of the Convention for Forming a Constitution for the Society at New Harmony, 1825-1826, as recorded by Thomas Pears.

General note:
  1. 1. Use of materials in our special collections is reserved for serious scholars, and access to these items is determined by the director of the Working Men's Institute (WMI) and its board of trustees.
  2. 2. After reviewing finding aids and determining that secondary sources are inadequate or unavailable, may request items from the archives
  3. 3. Requested items will be brought to the researcher in the public reading room where all work must take place. Notes may be taken. However, all photographing, scanning, transcribing, or in anyway copying an item must be cleared by the director.
  4. 4. Any materials reproduced or quoted in papers or publications must give credit to the WMI as their source. Requests to use materials in papers or publications must be submitted in writing for approval by the board of trustees of the WMI.

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Access

RESTRICTIONS:

This collection is open to researchers.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

1. Use of materials in our special collections is reserved for serious scholars, and access to these items is determined by the director of the Working Men's Institute (WMI) and its board of trustees.

2. After reviewing finding aids and determining that secondary sources are inadequate or unavailable, researchers may request items from the archives

3. Requested items will be brought to the researcher in the public reading room where all work must take place. Notes may be taken. However, all photographing, scanning, transcribing or in any way copying of an item must be cleared by the director.

4. Any materials reproduced or quoted in papers or publications must give credit to the WMI as their source. Requests to use materials in papers or publications must be submitted in writing for approval by the board of trustees of the WMI.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
407 Tavern Street
New Harmony, Indiana 47631, United States
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
812-682-4806
archivist@workingmensinstitute.org