Adams County Historical Museum
420 W. Monroe Street
Decatur, Indiana
The museum is a treasure house providing visitors with an opportunity to research the past, or to simply browse, enjoy and remember. Owned by the Adams County Historical Society, the museum is open to the public on Sundays 1 - 4 p.m. from June to September; other times by appointment. Admission is free, but donations for the upkeep of the former Charles A. Dugan home and its collections are appreciated.
One of the treasures contained in the museum are scrapbooks that date back to the 1930s. The scrapbooks contain newspaper articles, obits, weddings, births, and local news, but their age is beginning to show.
In June 2012, a group of volunteers spent two days hand scanning the oldest of the scrapbooks to preserve as many of the articles as possible. The group scanned 75 scrapbooks, about half of the volumes stored in the museum.
See the group in action
Because of the size of the pages, the scans are being transcribed for publication.
We need volunteers to transcribe!
Please get in touch with
Margie or
Jim if you are interested.
Note: dates are approximate. Articles were glued onto the pages where ever they fit. Many have handwritten dates on the article.
Updated 2/5/2014
Scrapbooks
- 1934
- 1936 - 1937
includes review of Jan - Dec 1922
includes several pages of articles from 1932
includes review of Jan - Apr 1933
includes review of Jan - May 1935
and May - June 1935
- 1937
- 1938
- 1939
- 1939 - 1940
- 1940
- 1940 - 1941
- 1941 January - June
- 1941 April - December
- 1941 August - October
- 1942 January - August
- 1942 February - November
- 1942 April - December
- 1942 - 1943
- 1943 January - February
- 1943 January - July
- 1943 April - December
- 1943 - 1945
- 1944
- 1944 - 1945
- 1946 June - September
- 1946 September - December
- 1947 - 1948
- 1947 January - May
- 1947 May - September
- 1947 September - December
- 1948 - 1949
- 1949 June - October
- 1949 - 1950
- 1951 - 1952
- 1951 - 1962
- 1952
- 1952 - 1953
- 1952 - 1955
- 1952 - 1960
- 1955
- 1955 - 1958
- 1958 - 1960