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".
Back row from left to right: Charles Dufendach, John Worman, Clint Feltner, Otis Alvey, Guy Dearing, Ben Hoffhaus, Norm Dufendach. Middle row from left to right: Henry Warnsman, Ed Helmerick, Pat Epple, Dave Dufendach, Bill Mundy. Front row from...
Monroe County (Ind.) -- History.; Monroe County (Ind.) -- Church history.; St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church -- Indiana -- Bloomington.; St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church (Bloomington, Ind.) -- History.; Catholic Church -- Education --...
External shot of sixteen students with Msgr. Kilfoil at church entrance with African American student Preston Bridgewaters.
An article in the Jasper Herald about a bank robbery at the German American Bank in the town of Dubois, IN. This is a continuation from the article "Dubois bank robbed; $11,036 taken." Pictured is German American Bank vice president Max Burke. ...
The "America" was built in Jeffersonville from the hull and machinery of the old "Indiana" in 1917. She ran as a packet for several years and then was converted to an excursion boat. She burned at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1930. The "America" is...
The excursion boat, "America" is docked at Madison loading up for a day at Rose Island (formerly Fern Grove). The occasion is the American Boy excursion of 1927 in which about 1,500 people participated. The boat was scheduled to return at 7:30 p.m....
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...
Steamboats; Riverboats; Marks and Benson; ice gorge; Steamboat accidents
The "Loucinda" was built in 1910 and was one of the casualties of the 1918 ice gorge that claimed several boats in Cincinnati. The inscription says, "Marks and Benson, American Boy excursion to Fern Grove, July 13, 1910.
The "Monongahela" was built in 1927 and rebuilt in 1945-1946 when she was converted from coal to an oil burner. In the late 1950s she was partially dismantled. Her remains were sold to a South American firm. She broke away from her tug during...
Elkhart County (Indiana)--History;
Elkhart County(Indiana)--Biography
A standard history of Elkhart County, Indiana; an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, educational civic and social development.
Volume II contains biographical...
Photographer Theodore Eitel’s album, About a Town in Southern Indiana, depicts the Ohio River town of Utica, Clark County, Indiana circa 1920s. The fifteen village scenes are mounted on board with vellum. Eitel was a native of Louisville,...
