This is a photograph of Madison's Main Street in 1852. Main Street was then called Main Cross and the first intersection of streets is Mulberry Street. Some of the businesses pictured are the A. (Aaron) Marks clothing store on the northwest corner;...
This is a picture of the Madison Marine Railways and Shipyard. Visible in the photo are several riverboats tied up for repairs. Identified are "City of Owensboro", "Tell City", "Harry Brown", and "Alice Brown".
This is a view of the library window which faced East. It was at this window that Gene wrote. The term (south) refers to Limberlost Cabin located in Geneva, IN rather than the new cabin built near Rome City. In its early days, the home in Rome...
This is a view of the old Marine Railways. The boats identified in this picture are the "City of Owensboro", "Tell City", "Harry Brown", and "Alice Brown". The Madison Courier, on August 4, 1892, had this to say: "The shipyard and marine ways here...
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Speed, Ind.; Sellersburg, Ind.; Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc.
The Warning Star was a monthly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. It began without a name in May 1937. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human interest stories. It is unclear how...
This is the Pennsylvania Railroad freight station after the east end of the building had been taken off and a new frame structure had been constructed in its place. This took place sometime around 1918. The doors that you see down the side of the...
This item is part of a larger collection of items from the Elam B. Guernsey Family Collection. J.A.C. McCoy of Mound City, Illinois writes to Friend [Elam] Guernsey on 24 February 1864. Elam had written a letter telling about his child’s death....
United States. Army--Inspection; Milroy family--Correspondence
A letter to Milroy's wife, Mary, writing of a recent trip to Chattanooga, Where he stopped at various points along the way to inspect posts adn stockades.
This location was previously the site of the Sulzer Brothers Drug Company Warehouse which was demolished. Marcus Sulzer was still active in the business when he died in 1939. However, the property was vacant in the 1942 city directory so we can...
