Built in 1898 of red granite, this was home to the August (Gus) Yunker Family, owner of Pearl Packing Company. The brick front porch and the back two-story addition are not original to the house. The original front porch had a gabled roof and...
This multi-level building at 304 West 11th Street replaced the elegant mansion that was the YWCA's first home. It was dedicated on April 24, 1960. In 2007, the building was sold to a local church.
Young Women's Christian associations; Anderson, Ind.
Anderson's YWCA was established in 1913 to accommodate and assist the growing number of single women coming to Anderson to work. This elegant home, located at 1011 Jackson Street, was formerly the mansion of local businessman Charles Henderson.
Westchester Township citizens scoured their basements and garages in September of 1942 to salvage scrap metal in aid of the war effort. Chesterton Town Marshall Joe LaRoche, on the pile wearing a black tie and hat, is shown supervising the growing...
This photograph shows a woman gardening at Oakwood Park, Lot 1. Lot 1 was known in the early years of Oakwood Park as Fredericks' Island. Camp Comfort's name was later changed to "Home Comfort." By 1905, porches had been added to the original house.
Sometime before 1879 this was the home of W. W. Snyder, a Methodist minister and father of William McKendree Snyder. William McKendree and his bride came to live in the home with his father sometime in the 1870's. After the reverend's death,...
William J. Johnson, 1953-1918, and his wife Ida were the first Johnsons to live in this home, though it stayed in the Johnson family from about 1890 until 1945. After William J. Johnson died in 1918 it became the home of his brother David and his...
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916; Vawter, Will, 1871-1941
Photocopy of a newspaper article clipping from the Greenfield Daily Reporter. Article discusses Will Vawter's marriages and lists his death as February 11, 1941 and states that he was buried in Park Cemetery. Vawter contributed illustrations for...
Looking northwest from Meridian and 11th Streets, Anderson Drug Company is clearly in view. An interurban moves down Meridian Street on the edge of the picture. The Anderson Drug Company building was torn down in 1999. At that time it was the...
Yearbook photo of several classrooms at Jasper High School in Jasper, IN. Featured are the home economics class, the art class, the chemistry class, Mr. Hollingden's algebra class, and Mr. Rowekamp's history class. Keywords: home economics, art,...
Frank Waugh and his wife Elmatie are pictured on the front porch of their home in 1903 surrounded by their family. From left to right they are Edward, baby Edna, Glen and Bill Waugh, and standing at the right, Stacy Johnson, Matie's mother. Frank...
