This photograph shows Charlie Dahlke, on ice skates, selling coffee on a frozen Lake Wawasee. Dahlke opened The Frog Tavern and the Sleepy Owl Supper Club.
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Speed Way (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Louisville...
The Speedometer was a monthly or sometimes bi-weekly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human interest stories. The Speedometer began publication...
A photograph of Alice Gray's cabin on the lake called "Driftwood" taken by Captain C.H. Robinson. Robinson wrote on the back of the photograph, "A girl who was a graduate of the University of Chi. and a Ph D. turned hermit and lived in this shack...
Monroe County (Ind.) -- History; Bloomington (Ind.) -- History; McCalla, Elizabeth Wylie (1821 - 1900); Wylie Family -- Correspondence; Women -- Indiana -- Monroe County
Elizabeth addresses and mourns the death of "little Andrew" (Andrew Wylie's son), in addition to that of their mother. Worries about the health of others in the family, worries about the crops being poor again; mentions Mr. McCalla, Mr. Howe, and...