This burgundy velvet covered photograph album contains portraits of the Hiestand family and others. The album contains pages with slots for the pictures. The pictures were removed from the slots in order for the entire image to be scanned. Some...
This is a notice published to advise the public of the privatization of the railroad and the rules and regulations that would prevail on it. This notice was, no doubt, published in newspapers and used as posters and handbills as was the practice of...
The 1886 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps show this building as a furniture store but we can't be sure who owned it at that time. We do know that by the early 1900s Edward J. Meyers had his business here. Mr. Meyers sold furniture, pianos and musical...
Prest-O-Lite Women's Basketball Team around 1906-1917. Prest-O-Lite manufactured headlamps for autos. Located in Speedway, Indiana. Founded by James. A. Allison and Carl G. Fisher, both of Indianapolis 500 fame. It is likely that this was an...
September 18, 1917 the cornerstone of the Brownsburg Public Library Carnegie Library was laid in a dedication ceremony. According to "The Village of Brownsburg", School was dismissed on this day. Inside the cornerstone was placed several items...
The earliest city directory in which this business was found is the 1867 directory. It was listed as the W. W. Page Grocery. By 1872 it was listed as the W. W. and Benj Page Flour Mill. In 1890 it was called the Flour and Feed Store. After Mr....
George Dickinson had a livery stable here as early as 1886. The site served as a livery under Pickney Craig, James Phillips, Will Moyers, and Robert Bingham until the early 1920s. Between 1923 and 1925 the Coleman-Larimore Motor Company located...
Originally built as the J. Schofield and Sons Woolen Mills in 1877 and continued as such for about 50 years. After the death of the founder in 1925 operations were briefly suspended, but the company was reorganized and the Fordyce Textile...
Civil War, U. S., 1861-1865; Correspondence; Death
This item is part of a larger collection of items from the Elam B. Guernsey Family Collection. Andrew Y. McComb writes to Elem B. Guernsey, a very dear friend and brother in Christ, on 11 February 1864 from Corydon, Indiana. There is a disease...
This building was erected sometime between 1886 and 1892 (Sanborn Maps). It may have been the office building for the Dow and Brown Sawmill (see Dow and Brown Sawmill) for a time. In 1927, when this picture was taken, Lemen describes it as the...
In 1851, John Brough, president of the first railway that ran through Madison and Governor of Ohio, built Cravenhurst. Three stories high, made of brick, the home was located on a ten acre farm on Michigan Road on the brow of the hill, in what is...
In 1851, John Brough, president of the first railway that ran through Madison and Governor of Ohio, built Cravenhurst. Three stories high, made of brick, the home was located on a ten acre farm on Michigan Road on the brow of the hill, in what is...
Elizabeth Pollock; Spink Hotel; gardens; phone operator
This image shows Elizabeth Pollock and a group of people standing by the Spink Hotel gardens. Elizabeth Pollock is the woman on the far right of the photo and was the phone operator of the Spink Hotel during this time.
Elizabeth Pollock; Spink Hotel; gardens; phone operator
This image shows Elizabeth Pollock and a group of people standing by the Spink Hotel gardens. Elizabeth Pollock is in the back row on the far left and was the phone operator of the Spink Hotel during this time.
Elizabeth Pollock; Spink Hotel; gardens; phone operator
This image shows Elizabeth Pollock and a friend standing by the Spink Hotel gardens. Elizabeth Pollock is on the left and was the phone operator of the Spink Hotel during this time.
Brownsburg's new flag flown for the first time. (left to right) Syble Hall, designer; Paul Kilian, Ed Schrier, Don Gray. Police Office George Ingle in background.
