Mike McLaughlin, life-long resident of Madison, is pictured with his horse and dray. A dray was a utility cart used for hauling mostly heavy, commercial merchandise. Many breweries used drays to transport heavy barrels of beer from one place to...
Mike McLaughlin, life-long resident of Madison, is pictured with his horse and dray. A dray was a utility cart used for hauling mostly heavy, commercial merchandise. Many breweries used drays to transport heavy barrels of beer from one place to...
Snapshot of two female student wearing graduation gowns and caps. They stand on the sidewalk in front of the Pierceton school. Their shoes indicate that this was taken circa 1930.
Street railroad car #95, One-man sing and double ruck, arch roof, steel car. Built 1930 for Northern Indiana, weighed 42,500 lbs., Seated 50, retired by Indiana Railroad in Jan 1940. Photo taken in Anderson, Ind.
Steamboats; Riverboats; Excursion boats; "Belle of Louisville"; "Avalon"; Ferries; USO clubs; Rose Island
Built in 1914 this boat went by the name Idlewild from that date to 1947. She then became the Avalon from 1947 to 1962 when she was dubbed "Belle of Louisville". She is a shallow draft boat which enables her to glide over water that would not be...
The "America" was built at Jeffersonville as a packet boat. Her hull and machinery came from the "Indiana" which had burned at Cincinnati on May 1, 1916. She was later remodeled to a full-fledged excursion boat operating mostly out of...
She was built as the "Dolphin No. 3" at Jeffersonville, Indiana and was called the "Harry Anderson" for a brief period before receiving the name "Julius Fleischmann." She was owned by the Hatfield Coal Company and towed between the Kanawha River...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Publicity photographs; Big bands;
This photo is a publicity photograph, popular in the early 1900s. The Black Diamonds were a big band contracted by the Brunswick Recording Company. The Crytal Ball Room where they were contracted in Bass Lake was built c.1925 and was a popular...
Original Washington School building, built in 1896, on Columbus Avenue. This building was destroyed by fire in 1930 and a second Washington School was built in the same location.
The original Washington Elementary School was built in 1896 and destroyed by fire in 1930. This 1932 building, located at Columbus Avenue and 23rd Street, was used by the Anderson School System until the early 1980's. It is now Liberty Christian...
