This Living Flag, composed of 2,000 school children, was enacted during the Indiana G.A.R. convention in Anderson in 1903. A scaffolding erected on courthouse square reached to the roof of the courthouse and was filled with children in colored...
A photograph and article in the Jasper Herald of the new Dubois-Pike Bookmobile, driven during the St. Anthony Centennial parade to show the public. Keywords: bookmobile, truck, people, parade, American flag, newspaper.
A picture of Dale Helmerich, former mayor of Huntingburg, IN, with Key Club students from the Huntingburg High School. Keywords: mayor, students, Key Club, American flag
Civil War, U. S., 1861-1865; Correspondence; Fortune telling; Love-letters; American Civil War, letters and diaries; Military life
Ernest Schleicher, a soldier in Company I 38th Regiment Indiana Infantry, wrote letters home during the Civil War to Harriet Jackson of New Providence, Indiana. Ernest mustered in as a private in 1861 and was discharged in 1865 as a sergeant. These...
A photograph of Janet Barth (right) and a helper working to organize the new Ferdinand Branch Library in Ferdinand, IN, prior to its opening. Keywords: women, library, librarian, telephone, American flag, desk, typewriter.
A reproduction of a photograph of telephone workers in Huntingburg, IN. The woman marked with a fuchsia dot is Gertie Murphy. Other names listed but not identified are: Alice Niehaus, Johnson, and Burgdorf. Keywords: men, women, Christmas tree,...
Portrait of Anna Schuler Melchior (seated). Other family members unidentified. Anna Schuler Melchior was one of the women who sewed the flag used by the local regiment during the Civil War and which still exists at the Dubois County Museum....
A photograph of children in the city of Dubois, IN, possibly around Independence Day. The names of the three children on the right are known and are as follows (from right to left): Mary Ellen Poe, Roger Zehr, Richard Kreitzer. Keywords: American...
From left to right: Robert Hochgesang, Helen (Berger) Schaaf, Ambrose Berger, Bertha (Hochgesang) Berger, Agnes (Grosser) Hochgesang, Otto Schaaf. Taken at Belle Island in Detroit, MI. People pictured are from Jasper, IN. Keywords: American flag,...
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...
