Starke County (Ind.) ; Advertisements; Restaurants;
Advertisement for a restaurant popular in the 1930s and 1940s called Van's Inn. The advertisement is taken from a 1932 issue of the Bass Lake Times. Van's Inn had what was then called "legal beer", gas, oil, food, cabins, a merry-go-round and even...
Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924 - Photography; Porter, Charles D., 1850-1926; Bank of Geneva - Geneva (Ind.);
Charles D. Porter was a founding member of the Bank of Geneva. Listed as cashier, he played a prominent part in not only banking, but as the owner of a drug store, treasurer of the Geneva Natural Gas Company and as a member of the Sons of...
The girls are posed in front of the living room fireplace. In an effort to identify the young ladies, we find that in July and August of 1900, cousin Gladys Wilson stayed with the Porters for a number of weeks. The girls would have been 12 and 13...
Transportation; Ford Model-T; Leisure; recreation; camping
As cars became more affordable in the teens and '20s, people of all ages took to the road in Model-Ts like the 1921 Ford touring car seen in this photograph. In spite of bad roads and infrequent gas pumps, early motorists found camping a...
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...
