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The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, home of the Indiana Historical Society, has undergone a major renovation and re-opened in March 2010 with the launch of its new feature, Indiana Experience. In addition to bringing back the popular 1945 grocery, Indiana Experience uses new technology to immerse guests in stories of the state's past. Enjoy a visit to the Cole Porter room, concerts on the canal throughout the warm weather, great food at the cafe and and unique shopping including a wealth of Indiana-related books, music and gifts at our newly designed Basile History Market. For those seeking Indiana gift items, please visit www.indianahistory.org.free admission to "The Indiana Experience" at IHS, downtown Indianapolis.
Our History
The Indiana Historical Society is one of the United States' oldest and largest historical societies. Indiana's Storyteller™ is housed within the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, located at 450 W. Ohio St. in downtown Indianapolis in The Canal and White River State Park Cultural District with neighbors such as the Indiana State Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. We are the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Since 1830, IHS has connected people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting and sharing the state's history. A private, nonprofit membership organization, IHS maintains the nation's premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest. IHS also provides support and assistance to local museums and historical groups, publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher workshops; and provides youth, adult and family programming, including Indiana's participation in National History Day. We also appoint and train 92 county historians. IHS opened a new 165,000-square-foot headquarters in downtown Indianapolis in July 1999, built on the site of the prior Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church.
The Beginning
The Indiana Historical Society was started on Dec. 11, 1830, which was the 14th anniversary of Indiana statehood. A collection of Indianapolis movers and shakers decided to start a historical society and sought to obtain many objects relating to Indiana's history. The goal was to hold a “collection of all materials calculated to shed light on the natural, civil, and political history of Indiana, the promotion of useful knowledge and the friendly and profitable intercourse of such citizens of the state as are disposed to promote the aforesaid objects.”
In 1831, the Indiana General Assembly granted IHS a charter. In the few years afterward, two of IHS’s prevalent backers died, and between its founding in 1830 and 1886, only 12 annual meetings were held to promote it. Its collections were located in the old Indiana State Bank and old Indiana State Capitol. IHS in those days was described by a historian to be a “a small private club for publishing local history.”
- In 1886, IHS was reorganized under the direction of Jacob Piatt Dunn. With trusted associates, Jacob Dunn started a policy of annual meetings that continues to this day. Dunn was able to motivate Hoosiers of several occupations to gather resources for IHS, focusing on editors, professional historians, lawyers, librarians and writers. Jacob Dunn's attempt to allow women to join IHS failed in 1888. It wasn’t until 1906 that a woman, editor Eliza Browning, would be admitted. Thanks to Dunn, the Indiana Historical Society had an office at the state capitol building from 1888 to 1914.
IHS would continue to affect and be affected by the happenings of the Indiana Historical Bureau (originally the Indiana Historical Commission), the Indiana State Museum and the Indiana State Library. IHS’s executive secretaries acted as directors of the Historical Bureau for more than 50 years, from 1924 to 1976. The 1922 will of philanthropist Delavan Smith allowed IHS to establish its William H, Smith Memorial Library, as he not only willed IHS a vast sum of money, but also a sizable collection of books.
- Beginning in the 1950s, IHS started publishing works related to the history of Indiana. The most important of these was a 1966 multivolume set about the history of Indiana in celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of Indiana's statehood. Other notable books included the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Old Northwest in 1950. In 2009, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our award-winning, quarterly, popular history magazine Traces. We also publish the family history magazine THG: Connections twice a year.
Our Collections
- IHS Collections and the William H. Smith Memorial Library both preserve and make accessible one of the largest archival repositories of material on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest, including 1.6 million photographs, 45,000 cataloged printed items, 14,000 pieces of sheet music, 5,000 processed manuscript collections, 3,300 artifacts, 1,100 cataloged maps, 575 broadsides and 60 paintings. More than 38,000 digital images are currently available on our Web site.
Among the items held by IHS is a 130-year-old Bible recently used to swear in Mayor Greg Ballard of Indianapolis. One of the most significant items in IHS collections is the original glass-plate negative of a Abraham Lincoln photograph taken by Alexander Gardner just weeks before the Gettysburg address. This image was used as the model for the creation of the Abraham Lincoln National Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Subject strengths of our collections include Architecture, Agriculture, American Civil War, Business, Communities, Education, Ethnically and Racially Identified Groups, Families, Government, Journalism and Communications, Medicine, Military Affairs, Notable Hoosiers, Old Northwest Territory, Organized Labor, Politics, The Professions, Religion, Social Services, Transportation (including Railroad and Interurban History) and Women.
Operations
The Board of Trustees oversees the operation of the Indiana Historical Society, which includes a staff of approximately 80 working in Administration, Collections, Conservation, Development, Press, Marketing and Public Relations, and Public Programs. They continue to oversee actions to promote the history of Indiana. Official legislation of the Indiana General Assembly provided property to IHS, upon which we constructed the current History Center.
Our current CEO and president, John A. Herbst, joined IHS in September 2006.
Growth
By 1970, the membership of the Indiana Historical Society reached 5,000. The most noted of these was Eli Lilly, whose donations allowed for the building additions in 1976, and whose will helps the general financial welfare of IHS to this day. By 1993, the membership rose to 10,000, with 40 percent of IHS’s members living in the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
For years, the headquarters was in the Indiana State Library and Historical Building, but in 1999, it moved to its current headquarters along the Central Canal. The 165,000-square-foot building includes a 300-seat theater, the William H. Smith Memorial Library, a vault to house IHS's priceless collections, the Stardust Terrace Café, Conservation and Preservation Imaging labs, classrooms, Basile History Market, the Cole Porter Room, Eli Lilly Hall and several interactive experience spaces.
In December 2007, we launched our Campaign for the Indiana Experience and renamed the building the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center in honor of the Glicks’ gift to the campaign. The History Center was renovated in 2009 and reopened March 20, 2010 with the Indiana Experience, a new way to live history.
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