History; County government; Pioneers; Families; Farm life; Farming;
Mr. McCormick describes his work as an "An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern Developments in the Reclamation of Lands and the Progress of Town and Country".
On March 28, 1896 at St. Louis, a great, black cloud loomed menacingly over the city. The "City of Monroe" chanced to be moored at the Anchor Line wharf-boat, ready to start on her regular trip to New Orleans. She was heavily laden with freight...
The image shows some of the exterior details of the building. The Oddfellows Lodge constructed this theater. It was originally called the Alhambra Opera House and later was referred to as the Alhambra Theater.
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Speed Way (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Louisville...
The Speedometer was a monthly or sometimes bi-weekly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human interest stories. The Speedometer began publication...
Far left: Orville Brown Moore, b. Aug. 2, 1897 (IN), d. Jan. 31, 1979 (IN); sitting on right: Freda (Brown) Chambers; third from right standing: Blanche Brown. Original not available.
Seventh annual catalogue from Central Manufacturing Company, manufactureres of Ben-Hur Bicycles (1897). From cover: "Lucius M. Wainwright, President; Drikus Snitjer, Vice-President; Albert D. Johnson, Secretary and treasurer; Lewis J. Kek, Second...
Copy photograph of the Daniel and Emma Sophia (Snoke) Eberly family in front of their log cabin. Donor states that all of the children were born in Kosciusko County on a farm east of North Webster. The children are (in no particular order): Rachel,...
This house has been described as Queen Anne/Romanesque. It was built between 1892 and 1897, probably for the Michael Donlan family and they lived in the home for over fifty years. Mr. Donlan was a prominent Madisonian with ties to the banking...
This house has been described as Queen Anne/Romanesque. It was built between 1892 and 1897, probably for the Michael Donlan family and they lived in the home for over fifty years. Mr. Donlan was a prominent Madisonian with ties to the banking...
New Harmony (Ind.); Photographs; Regional Pictoral Works; Historiography and Photography
First telephone exchange installed in 1897, New Harmony, IN, The first CT & T co. exchange, and first subscriber, the Corbin Milling Co. The two tall lines: one from Princeton and one from Evansville. Individual booths in Dranfired Drug Store were...
A reproduction of a photograph of the intersection of Fourth and Geiger Streets in Huntingburg, IN, looking north. On the left is the St. George Hotel, and on the right is the Huntingburg Bank building, constructed in 1897. Keywords: street,...
A poem written in loving remembrance of Alice Coombes [Coombs], who died in September 1897, by Rebecka Raulerson of Lakeland, Florida. This is part of a larger collection of objects belonging to Mary Catherine "Kate" Hiestand of Memphis and...
Business enterprises; Department stores; Groceries
Around 1863 John J. Craig went into partnership with Fred Dubach and opened a dry goods store at this location. The partnership lasted only about one year and John Craig then brought his brother Henry into the business. They formed the Craig and...
