Electric signs; Commercial streets -- Indiana -- South Whitley
View looking north at buildings on the west side of S. State St. Visible are McGlennen's Grocery at 127 S. State St., and Johnson Brothers Neon Signs at 123 S. State St. The photo documents the signs made by Johnson Brothers.
Starke County (Ind.) ; Posters; Memorabilia; Big bands;
This poster is advertising the 12 Creoles, a big band popular in the 1920s that played often at the Savoy in Chicago. The Crytal Ball Room, built c.1925 at the south end of Bass Lake, was a popular place through the 1960's. It featured big bands...
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...
Outdoor group photograph of the Kelly family reunion. It is blindstamped in lower right corner ""O.F. KELLY / SOUTH WHITLEY / IND."" This is the family of the photographer and dated 1924 by the donor.
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".
Electric signs; Bars -- Indiana -- South Whitley; Commercial streets -- Indiana -- South Whitley
Photo documenting the "5 Club / LIQUOR / BEER / WINE" sign made by the Johnson Brothers Sign Company. The tavern was located at 111 S. State St. The photograph is timestamped "NOV 59" looks north at the second floors of several buildings in the...
Electric signs; Bars -- Indiana -- South Whitley; Commercial streets -- Indiana -- South Whitley
Photo documenting the "5 Club / LIQUOR / BEER / WINE" sign made by the Johnson Brothers Sign Company. The tavern was located at 111 S. State St. The photograph looks north at the several buildings in the 100 block of S. State St.
The "Monongahela" was built in 1927 and rebuilt in 1945-1946 when she was converted from coal to an oil burner. In the late 1950s she was partially dismantled. Her remains were sold to a South American firm. She broke away from her tug during...
Here is a view of a mixed railroad train with the locomotive "Reuben Wells" stopped on the Madison incline. This is just south of the first cut where the Crooked Creek viaduct passes underneath.
A photograph in the Jasper Herald of an assembly in the Dubois High School gymnasium to welcome back the Dubois Jeeps basketball team after their semistate loss to Terre Haute South Vigo in Evansville, IN the previous day. At the microphone is...
