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".
This is a 1930's Clock Face cities service Koolmotor Wayne Pump with original glass Koolmotor Globe. It is on loan to the Syracuse-Wawasee Museum by Dennis Beadle.
This photograph shows several buildings on the Oak Park property including the dining hall (built in 1894), the ice house, a home, and the gazebo at the public water pump.
A film negative whose caption reads "After the storm February 19, 1967 Dubois garage." This refers to a windstorm that had destroyed the building's facade but was later repaired to match a neighboring building. Keywords: garage, gas pump, building,...
In 1823 Jacob Salmon established one of the first breweries west of the Alleghenies. It was situated on, what was then, the eastern outskirts of Madison. We don't know the exact fate of that early brewery, but in 1856 the Greiner Family had...
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Speed, Ind.; Sellersburg, Ind.; Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc.
This is the 1958 February, April, May, June, August-September, and November issues of The Speed Way. The Speed Way was a monthly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant...
Monroe County (Ind.) -- History; Indiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence; United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 22nd (1861-1865). Company I; Graham Family -- Correspondence
Letter written on patriotic stationary from Mumford & Co., Cincinnati, OH
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Speed, Ind.; Sellersburg, Ind.; Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc.
This is the 1963 February, March, April, and May issues of The Speed Way. The Speed Way was a monthly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human...
Farm Life; butter churn; Chellberg family; Chellberg, Mina
Mina Peterson, the daughter of Swedish immigrants who settled in Baillytown, worked as a cook for the Barker family of the Pullman Standard Co. in Michigan City before her marriage to C.L. Chellberg in 1901. She is seen here in 1914, in the yard...