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...
Public Library Order Form for Brownsburg Indiana. Order was written in india ink on Brownsburg Public Library Letterhead. Board Members are at the top of the heading. This order was one of the orders for the old Carnegie building.
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.
An article in the Jasper Herald about a bank robbery at the German American Bank in the town of Dubois, IN. This is a continuation from the article "Dubois bank robbed; $11,036 taken." Pictured is German American Bank vice president Max Burke. ...
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".
On March 23, 1913, three inches of rain feel on Madison County. For the next four days, much of Anderson was under water. This shows the Madison Avenue bridge area of the flood.
This black and white photograph shows the houseboat "Avalon" on Lake Wawasee. The "Avalon" was built in 1898 at a cost of $1400.00 for Mr. Fortune of Indianapolis.
Steamboats; Riverboats; Stern wheelers; Greene Line; Madison-Milton Bridge; Ohio River
Built in 1925, this was the second "Chris Greene" of the Greene Line. One can see the Madison-Milton Bridge in the background on the left hand side; it was built in 1928. The first "Chris Greene" was lost in the great fire at Cincinnati in...
"City of Jeffersonville"; Steamboats; Riverboats; Rivers; Ohio River; Ferryboat
The "City of Jeffersonville" was built at the Howard Steamboat Works in 1891 and was no longer working by 1914. In this picture she is docked on the Madison Levee.
