Telling Your Story: Documenting Your Indiana History

At the Indiana Historical Society, we have collected items that document Indiana’s past since 1830. There are thousands of letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, albums, graphics, and ephemera in our archives documenting the Hoosier experience.

Today, we continue to collect stories** from Hoosiers that will help future historians understand our current world. Below are examples of what we’re looking for:

• Writings
• Photos
• Drawings, paintings
• Short videos (limited to 100MB file size, for larger files please email hearmystory@indianahistory.org)

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Why This is Important

Items in our collection let us hear the voices and see the people from our past who are living all the ranges of human experience and emotion. Through the items we collect, we can understand their joys and disappointments, as well as their achievements and failings. Please take the time to read and respond to each of the fields in the appropriate form before uploading your item(s) for consideration. It is important that we have your permission to use and share the items you submit with future researchers, just as it is important that our digitization and archives team have a basic understanding of the object you are submitting.

Future researchers and visitors to the Indiana Historical Society will have you to thank for sharing a part of your lives with them as they work to understand our current lived experience.

If you have questions, please email hearmystory@indianahistory.org.

In granting this permission, you warrant that you are 18 years of age or older and have the full power and authority to consent to this agreement, that your submission does not infringe any existing copyright or contain any libelous matter, nor invade any third-party rights of privacy or publicity.

**Submission does not guarantee an interview or inclusion in the exhibit or the IHS collections.