Members of the Carlin family pose with their four Ford tractors and five Ford cars and trucks. From left to right: Gerald, Ray 'Junior, Wayne, Fred, and Ray Carlin. Professional photograph for Ford Farming magazine taken in 1949 for article about...
Built in 1902 in Dubuque, Iowa, she was the largest towboat ever built. Her early beginnings, however, were rocky. On her maiden voyage she collided with a showboat and only a year later had to have her engines replaced. It was difficult for...
This is a ledger of the tolls received at Middle Toll Gate in Clark County, Indiana from 1867-1890. The Charlestown and Jeffersonville Turnpike Company managed the toll gate. The ledger was recorded by Thomas F. Prather, W.M. Gibson, A.J. Hay, J.B....
Gene had written a story and sent it to Metropolitan Magazine. Perriton Maxwell asked that a similar story be written with illustrations for the Christmas issue. This letter arrived with less than 24 hours to meet the deadline. "By four o'clock I...
Gene wrote," Near a lumberman's shanty, in a small clearing, I found my first subject, the most magnificent specimen of Indian physical manhood I have ever seen. He stood all or over six feet four, in his bare feet, and was splendidly...
In this article Gene tells of being challenged to take only one camera and fit it with one lens for her outdoor journey. She chronicles various types of photos that she had taken and resolves that "if you have but one camera, make it a long...
In this article Gene tells of being challenged to take only one camera and fit it with one lens for her outdoor journey. She chronicles various types of photos that she had taken and resolves that "if you have but one camera, make it a long...
In this article Gene tells of being challenged to take only one camera and fit it with one lens for her outdoor journey. She chronicles various types of photos that she had taken and resolves that "if you have but one camera, make it a long...
In this article Gene tells of being challenged to take only one camera and fit it with one lens for her outdoor journey. She chronicles various types of photos that she had taken and resolves that "if you have but one camera, make it a long...
In this article Gene tells of being challenged to take only one camera and fit it with one lens for her outdoor journey. She chronicles various types of photos that she had taken and resolves that "if you have but one camera, make it a long...
Smokestacks; Steeples; Courthouses; Buildings; Trees
These photographs of the City of Huntington and Huntington County were commissioned by the Huntington City-Township Public Library; Huntington, Indiana. Birdseye view of Huntington looking Northeast from Tower of Horace Mann School on William...
The Hebron School was built in the 1850s. It was a substantial building made of stone. There was a cupola built atop the building with a rope extending downward inside so the bell could be rung. We do not know how long the bell was in existence or...
Blurry snapshot of four students in front of the Pierceton School. Identified on back as ""Tom Kilgore, Don Mort, Rosalee Hartman."" These students graduated in 1956.
There were at least four depots in Madison during the life of the railroad. Not much is known of the first two. The Madison Courier on November 28, 1981 stated, "The first depot downtown was an old shed just around the bend in the track." It was at...
The Madison Courier on October 25, 1943, reported, "Frank B. Conner, 60, conductor, was killed instantly, and four railway cars were demolished at 1:00 o'clock this afternoon when a "runaway" railroad train raced down the "cuts" plowed up the...
A crew of four on a hand-car. The small building to the left in the picture is probably the hand-car shed so they are either just leaving or just returning.
Photograph of Mr. Schroering with his oldest four great-grandchildren (from left to right): Jerry, Norma, Billy (back), Leroy. Taken on the Schroeder family farm in northeast Dubois County. Keywords: family, children, grapevines, farm
