This burgundy velvet covered photograph album contains portraits of the Hiestand family and others. The album contains pages with slots for the pictures. The pictures were removed from the slots in order for the entire image to be scanned. Some...
This scrapbook was given to James T. and Mary Catherine “Kate” Hiestand by Mother Hiestand, April 12, 1884. It contains obituaries, newspaper clippings, picture clippings, and advertising. Most items do not have dates but the latest date found...
Sellersburg (Ind.); Speed (Ind); El Paso (Tex.); Photography
These photographs are in a 3 ring binder. It is not clear who took or collected the photographs. Many of the images are from the Sellersburg and Speed, Indiana area. There are photographs from other unidentified places. The pages are double sided...
1896; plat; document; Oakwood Park; J.R. Williams; Jerome Wellman; notary; recorder; George W. McCarter; Hansing; Martz
This document came with the original plat of Oakwood Park. It was received for record on April 16, 1896 by J.R. Williams, the Recorder of Kosciusko County.
The "Carmania" was built at Newport News, Virginia in 1896 and was originally of Mexican registry called the "Tlacotalpan". After being sold to Mobile, Alabama she rammed a dock and killed some 50 people. She was then renamed "Margaret". She was...
The "G.W. McBride" was built in 1916 at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania as the "Conqueror". The "Conqueror" was upset in a storm and sank. She was raised, rebuilt, and named the "G.W. McBride" by Captain Birch McBride. She was sold to the Ohio River...
The newly built "Reuben Wells" sits at the Jeffersonville yards where she was built for the J M & I Railroad under the supervision and to the specifications of Master Mechanic, Reuben Wells, for whom she was named. Her boiler was tilted forward to...
"Wm. H. Smith in a "Regal Plugger" equipped with REMY magneto lowers world's touring car record from coast to coast, covering 4031 1/2 miles in 30 days." Cards were made the year before Remy Electric was sold to Fletcher Savings and Loan in 1911.
Aerial view of Delco-Remy factor complex, taken looking west from Columbus Avenue. Photo was taken sometime before Washington Elementary was destroyed by fire in 1930.
Jennie Lambert, Harriet Hensley & Calvin Lambert watch Charles Hensley in pilot seat of this early airplane. Hensley had designed the plane, which was financed by Lambert.
Arbuckle Acres Park; Delivery of airplane; Airplane was there for years for the kids to climb and play on. Plane is gone but building in background is still in use.
