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1909 postmarked postcard view of an automobile parade on Detroit Street in LaGrange, Indiana. This was Corn School Week and onlookers were gathering to watch the parade and enjoy the festivities. The courthouse square is on the right and carnival rides, including a Ferris wheel, had been set up in the street. The automobiles in the parade were stopped alongside the street stands and rides. The first car had no driver, but a man was leaning over in front of that car, perhaps trying to start it.
The photographer was looking south along Detroit Street from the northwest corner of the intersection at Detroit and Michigan streets. The photograph was probably taken from the second floor corner window of the building on that corner. According to the 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for LaGrange, the second floor was the location of the Masonic Hall. That building was still standing and in use as of 2016.
The LaGrange Post Office is near the left edge of this view. Two signs next door to the south (right) advertised a LAW OFFICE (or two), but the name isn’t readable. A little farther south, the fringe on the striped awning advertised REYHER & CO. The top of the awning advertised THE BIG ____. The 1910 map set shows a dry goods / boots and shoes business at this location. Across the alley to the south, a sign advertised the J. A. HUTCHIN CO. The map set shows a hardware store at this location. The second awning south of the Hutchin store advertised a BAKERY and the map set shows a grocery and bakery at this location. The advertising on the other awnings farther south are not readable.
The nearest stand in the street advertised ICE CREAM CONES. The small sign to the left of that larger sign appears to advertise the creamery that produced the ice cream, but the name isn’t quite readable. The posters below the counter were advertising ball games.
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Cover photo: H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1946
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
REMEMBER THE DAYS
Sweet recollections of back in the day
When children ran free in the streets as they played
Front doors left open to neighbours who cared
So few possessions to steal by who dared
Bicycle rides to the park with my mate
Stern words from father if I rolled up home late
Jumpers for goalposts and leather to boot
Life seemed so endless, one riotous hoot
Bandstand and deckchairs free to all souls
Bright coloured canvas and wood varnished, old
Chasing the squirrels and feeding the birds
Violence and vandals were words we'd not heard
No peadophile monsters to worry us so
No fast food obesity, limbs on the go
Three channel TV and eight track cassettes
No knife crime nor gangland, no drunken ladettes
Back in the day when kids could be kids
Joyful we laughed in the characters we hid
Board games and pistols, imagination rife
Out in the open and sampling life
Life was a game as we roll played with friends
Politically correct, non existent back then
Toy cigarettes, cowboy pistols such fun
Not one of us went wayward and killed with real guns
We ran like the wind with energy boundless
Exercised limbs and our minds although groundless
Were delusions of grandeur that children posses
Later we'd grow and discover life's mess
We were gleeful, contented, engrossed and so free
Not troubled by germs or the odd bloodied knee
Our parents could scold us without facing jail
No Play station needed, no Ipads, junk mail
Our garden my kingdom where I gaily played
Cowboys and Indians in the tents that I made
Cars were so few and the streets safe to roam
Night time was safe as you journeyed back home
Remember my childhood with such fondness, I do
And memories flood back with the deckchairs in view
In the days when the family bond was so strong
And childhood so precious in the summertime long
Back in the park as my bum takes the seat
Attendants want money to sit in the heat
Cutbacks and costs mean the band won't be showing
Guess life has changed some, so I'd better be going
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Written May 20th 2011
Photograph taken at 10:28am on May 12th 2011 in St James Park, Central London, England.
Nikon D700 24mm 1/800s f/4.0 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. UV filter. MetaGPS geotag.
Latitude: N 51d 30m 12.95s
Longitude: W 0d 8m 0.70s
Altitude: 9.0m
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Indiana History Prints
I created my first Indiana History Prints in 2002. The early prints were digital collages based on authentic original antique postcards, advertisements, and other paper items. I have continued to make a few collage prints, but also began creating prints from a few individual postcards and advertisements. All of the prints have been based on items from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That was the era when railroads already crisscrossed the state and provided the primary means of transporting passengers, freight and the mail. However, around the turn of the century, the interurban system arose and expanded rapidly. The interurban lines and the railroads were competing in some respects and, together, these two rail systems provided excellent service throughout much of the state. Their importance has been memorialized in hundreds of postcard scenes of trains, trolleys, bridges, stations and passengers. Then, just as the interurban system was becoming an integral part of Hoosiers’ lives, the automobile arrived and changed everything. Initially, it displaced the horse-drawn vehicles that were the primary means of local transportation. As roads were improved between communities to accommodate the automobiles, the interurban system began a fairly rapid decline followed by passenger service on the railroads. These changes were well documented by the photographers and postcard manufacturers and by the advertising from that era. The best examples of the postcards and photographs offer some amazing views of that era.
Personal and business communications were changing as well. The telephone was not yet widely available. The Post Office Department began selling the first postal cards at post offices in 1873, but businesses were the primary users. Picture postcards first appeared in Europe and eventually in the U.S. after the turn of the century. Those postcards quickly became a convenient method for personal communication, especially after the postal regulations changed in 1906 to allow messages on half of the back side of the postcard. The postcards were also collectible.
In those days, mail delivery within the state often took no more than a day. Post Office Department clerks processed some of the mail on specially designed rail cars as the trains traveled from one destination to the next. Several postcard scenes from that era show postal clerks standing on the railroad station platforms with mail pouches. A few postcards show the mail cars, but there are very few views of the interiors of those cars.
I am entirely responsible for the creation and production of the prints. They have been produced with care and each element used in the prints looks at least as good as the original. Each print is produced in very small quantities on 100% cotton rag watercolor paper (Hahnemühle Photo Rag®). The paper has a slight warm tone rather than being bright white, making it particularly suitable for printing historical objects. The prints will look good for decades, but need to be matted, framed and displayed behind glass to protect them from physical and environmental damage.
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1914 postmarked postcard view of State Street in Pendleton, Indiana. There were a few pedestrians in this scene and a handful of horse-drawn buggies and wagons. One vehicle in the distance may be an automobile. The photographer was standing west of Main Street and facing east when he took the photograph. The Main Street intersection is in the foreground.
Although this postcard has a postmark from 1914, the photograph was taken prior to 1910. The K. of P. (Knights of Pythias) Building at 16-18 West State Street (using the old street address system) was built in 1910. That building did not yet exist when this photograph was taken.
The hand water pump on the northeast corner of the Main Street intersection is shown in the 1914 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Pendleton, but not in the 1908 map set. The sign above the awning on that corner advertised DRY GOODS, SELZ SHOES and GROCERIES. Both map sets show this type of business at that location (40 West State Street). The Redmen’s Hall was on the second floor of that building. The 1908 map set shows the small wood frame building with the barber’s pole, but the building had been replaced by a single-story brick structure by the time the 1914 map set was being prepared. The 1908 and the 1914 map sets both identify the next building east (single-story brick construction) as the Pendleton Post Office (36 West State Street). Beyond the post office, the single-story wood frame building was a 5c theatre according to the 1908 map set. However, that building had also been replaced by a single-story brick structure (34 West State Street) by 1914.
Farther east, very few business signs were visible. The name on the _______ OFFICE sign east of the 5c theatre isn’t quite readable. Both map sets show a millinery shop and a grocery store in that building (30 West State Street) with a stairway between the two businesses. The sign was probably hanging above the stairway entrance and advertising a professional office on the second floor. The only other visible sign on the north side of the street is the RESTAURANT sign. The 1908 map set shows a restaurant in a single-story wood frame building west of the IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) Building. The distinctive IOOF façade is easy to identify in this photograph. However, the four small wood frame buildings to the west of it are difficult to see in this scene. The K. of P. Building and a bank replaced those small buildings and businesses in 1910.
The railroad crossing arms in the background identify the location of the C. C. C. & St. L. (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railway crossing. The crossing is between Pendleton Avenue and Broadway Street. The location of the HARNESS sign on the south side of State Street matches a harness and implements business at 11 East State Street in the 1908 map set. The DENTIST sign may have been on the building at the southwest corner of Pendleton Avenue or possibly above the bank on the southeast corner. The 1908 map set shows two saloons in the building on the southwest corner (1 and 3 West State Street). A Third saloon was located at 11 West State Street, but none of the three was identifiable in this photograph. The CIGAR STORE sign advertised a store located at 5 West State Street when the 1908 map set was published. That building and several other wood frame buildings (5 West State to 15 West State) were gone by the time the 1914 map set was being prepared.
The large barber’s pole in this scene stood in front of the two-story brick building at 25 West State Street. A cigar store was located in that building when the 1908 map set was being prepared, but the 1914 map set shows a barbershop. It is unclear on which building the PENDLETON LAUNDRY sign is posted. Neither map set lists a laundry business in that vicinity. The name on the ______ OFFICE UP STAIRS sign is not quite readable. The three-story building (27-29 West State Street) housed a furniture store in 1908. The K. of P. Hall was on the second floor and the Masonic Hall was on the third floor. The small wood frame building next door (31 West State Street) was occupied by a confectionery business when both map sets were published. The word HAIR was painted on the next building west (35 West State Street). However, both map sets show a photo gallery in that building. The sign next door (37 West State Street) advertised a cobbler’s business that is shown in the 1908 map set, but was gone by the time the 1914 set was being prepared. The business sign used images of a boot and a shoe as part of the sign. A tailoring business occupied the building on the southeast corner at Main Street. The building also served as a dwelling.
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Blackwell summit. Waiting to have brakes pinned for descent. Question for you from this 'older' person? What was D92 TOPS number & did it hold more than one at different times with various classifications? Not many 'Peaks' were tried in this experimental blue livery from my recollection?
1920 postcard view of Third Street in Brookston, Indiana. This postcard was postmarked 1923, but the photograph was probably taken in 1920 since the license plate on the nearest automobile was from that year. The photographer was standing in the intersection at Railroad Street and facing west when he took this photograph.
The building at the left edge of the view was on the southwest corner at Railroad Street and was home to the FARMERS BANK. Both the 1907 and the 1919 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Brookston show a bank on that corner. The Farmers Bank was incorporated in 1905 according to a 1910 report from the State Auditor.¹ The covered stairway at the back of the building led to the second floor above the bank.
The business sign on the building west of the bank advertised MRS. COTTRELL MILLINERY & FANCY GOODS. The 1919 map set shows an undertaker at that location with the post office in the space east (to the left in this view) near the bank. The 1907 map set shows a jeweler instead of the undertaker; it shows a millinery shop in the space nearest the bank. There is nothing in this view to indicate the post office was there when this photograph was taken.
The apothecary trade symbol above the farthest automobile advertised a DRUGS store. That business was on the east side of the alley in the same building as the millinery shop. The 1907 map set shows a drugs and paints business at that location while the 1919 map set shows it as a drugs business.
The 1907 and 1919 map sets show a vacant two-story wood frame building on the west side of the alley. It is labeled Hotel Wolf in the 1907 map set and was gone by the time this photo was taken. The first two-story brick building west of the alley was the location of a confectionery business according to the 1919 map set. The ICE CREAM sign was on that building. The sign next door appears to advertise H. DAHLING & SON _______ELRY. The map set shows a dry goods and jewelry business at that location. The next sign advertised the ______ CREAMERY CO. The 1919 map set shows that space vacant, but shows a creamery located a short distance north of Third Street on the west side of Railroad Street. The RESTAURANT sign advertised the business on the southeast corner at Prairie Street. The bottom of the sign advertised the sale of SODA, CIGARS & TOBACCO. The 1919 map set shows a restaurant at that location.
The business on the southwest corner at Prairie Street was a grocery according to the 1919 map set. The house at the end of the street was on the west side of Ripley Street.
1. Auditor of the State of Indiana, Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1910). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=l_dJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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Nilima Lambah, wife of Satinder Lambah, an Indian Foreign Service officer, gets candid and presents a cavalcade of interesting episodes, anecdotes and fascinating experiences culled from a life she lived in a host of countries for thirty years. From leading a life under the microscope of intelligence agencies in Pakistan, to hosting a dinner just a few hours after an earthquake shook their home in San Francisco - her accounts are not only witty, but also present a picture of the culture and society of the various places she visited. A Life Across Three Continents offers a glimpse into different aspects of a diplomat's life from the point of view of his wife - its glitter and glamour; its protocol and surprises; and coming to terms with foreign soil and diverse cultures. Written simply, these recollections of Nilima Lambah have something for people of all ages and from all walks of life. An amalgam of wit and humour, this is both informative and entertaining.
Recollection of the Indian Freedom Struggle and formation of the Indian National Army by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Titus, Lisa, and Michael Hall. Recollections of a Twentieth-Century Odalisque. New York, N.Y.: L. Titus, 1997.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.
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From Sue Cooper, 20Nov20.
Notes from Jon Naylor, 20Nov20:
I am not sure where the name ‘10th Floor Ravers’ came from but I think it came from Dr Walter Ross who was warden at the time and had a bungalow/apartment at the back of Lightfoot Hall. I remember I chose to play bridge with him on several Saturday evenings as he provided free beer and snacks.
Notes from Keith Unsworth, 20Nov20:
So here are my recollections of the creation of the 1968/69 ‘10th floor ravers’ address list …
It was near the end of the 68/69 year and somebody (I can’t remember who) thought it would be a good idea to have a contact list to keep in touch over the summer. I was told that I had been selected as the ‘expert’ (thanks to my publicity office role, inherited from young Alex) to print the list using the Gestetner printer in the student union rooms on the 1st floor of Lightfoot Hall. It was unanimously agreed this would be a highly appropriate use of student union funds - so treasurer Martin must have been involved to give it the sign-off!
So a few of us (‘us’ = subset of those on the list) gathered together to do the deed. It must have been a weekend because it was all pretty quiet in the union rooms while we got on with it. I remember typing the top line onto the stencil then running out of ideas of what to say after the ‘SW3’ bit. Thinking I’d get back to it later (which clearly I never did) I pressed on with the actual addresses, with nicknames hurled at me from the support crew at regular intervals. Nearing the end Pete Chapman arrived on the scene wanting to know what was going on. “Great idea” says he, “I’ll give you my address”. Being the wimp that I am I replied something like “oh. (hesitation)..ok, great” (note lack of enthusiasm in my voice). And he hovered over me to make sure it was done correctly, with my support crew no help whatsoever in baling me out.
And that’s about it from my memory bank. If anybody else is prepared to admit they were part of this event and remember other details the floor is yours! I don’t remember where ‘10th Floor Ravers’ came from - maybe somebody suggested it when this list was made, or maybe as Jon says we can thank Wally Ross.
Notes from Tom Trust, 20Nov20:
I wondered why there was a Pete Chapman in the list - who was he? Memories of the Gestetner and those stencils! I never realised how those acquired skills would aid me in the future - printing worksheets after I ended up teaching in Cornwall, when the staff room Gestetner was the state of the art! I also remember trying to get a stencil to print, in that Union office, and the ink didn't seem to be getting through, so I kept pumping and pumping the ink lever whilst the drum span round - until the bloody stencil flew off the drum due to the build-up of ink under it. The stencil was simply inadequately cut so the ink couldn't get through. Good old centripetal force took over, blew off the stencil and sprayed a line of ink all across the ceiling! Happy days indeed!
But the list - since my first comment about it I have looked at it several times. I've google-mapped most of our addresses (it seems a few of our former homes have been swept away and the site redeveloped), noted that most of us were on the Manresa Road side (odd numbers) and confirming that Bubbles, as I recall, was in an end room overlooking the King's Road. I was in 629 for Spring and Summer 1966 so have a fondness for those end rooms. Plus, I thought the ‘Ravers’ name emanated from jam sessions in the 10th floor kitchen. Oh, and on that list my Twickenham phone number is wrong. The last 4 numbers were 2938, not 2934. Bit late - but no wonder I got no 'phone calls!
Notes from Dave Thomson, 22Nov20:
A word about salamanders at Chelsea. I was never aware that my nickname was salamander but smile at knowing how it came to be…..my pets. Alex and Tom will know the story, but for the non zoology folks, here it is.
One practical session involved the dissection of salamanders (one each), which are lovely black and yellow amphibians (this being a don’t eat me advert to would be predators - i.e. I’m poisonous and you’d better believe it). This species almost give birth to live young - technically they emerge in an egg which consists only of a membrane. Upon birth this breaks to allow the young go free and live independently. Surprisingly, my (dead) specimen gave birth immediately and I was presented with a number (can’t remember how many) of live babies. What to do? Take them home of course, what else. So several were homed in my room (1016) in a small aquarium (not filled with water but landscaped with their own pool). Alex, Tom and I named them after cartoon characters including Maisie, Marlon and others which I forget. They ate flies and maggots when I could get them and tubifex worms, which, by the way, I think were the only animals that could at that time survive in the Thames (they can live in sewers). It was said that if you fell in to the river in those days you would need to have your stomach pumped to avoid a nasty death. Can’t recall exactly but I think tubifex were sold as fish food. So that was how Salamanders got into Lightfoot Hall.
Well done if you got this far. If so, you might like to know that we also had grass snakes for one practical. There were two survivors, which seemed deserving to live, so I took them back to my parents’ home to see what they were like as pets. They are quite nice to handle and of course harmless - at least to humans. Their favourite food is supposed to be frogs, which I duly provided from a local pond. They don’t eat very often but when they do it is quite impressive, as in revolting, to see a live frog slowing being swallowed. Anyway, before long I released them to find their own frogs and hopefully, they had good lives in the local countryside. I’m glad my nickname did not turn out to be snake!
Notes from Keith Quarmby, 22Nov20:
As we are setting the record straight on nicknames, I feel a word of explanation is due regarding mine. It comes from Fred Quimby, who for those who used to attend the Sunday night film shows in the Hall, will no doubt remember as the Director of the Tom & Jerry cartoons. All other derivations are incorrect and biologically impossible anyway.
Notes from Alex Wilson, 22Nov20:
We did indeed feed the salamanders on tubifex worms that we bought from a local pet shop (they are normally used as fish food). You bought them by the handful. I kept my supply of worms in a glass beaker (from the labs!) in the sink - you may recall the sliding doors that shut off the sink. One morning, in comes (I think) Annie the cleaner. Little lady but not to be messed with! Whistling toothlessly she begins work, slides open the door to the sink, sees the beaker, screams and runs out, refusing ever to enter my room again!
Notes from Tom Trust, 22Nov20:
During the dissection Dave was working next to me and I soon became aware of his excitement at finding in the reproductive tubes of his Salamander, which turned out to be a female - you couldn't tell their gender until they were opened up - loads of Salamander tadpoles not just ready to be ‘born’ but their hearts were still beating - all very visible through almost transparent bodies; this, despite the anaesthetic used to kill the animals we were dissecting. Soon he was pulling tadpole after tadpole out of his Salamander and dropping them into a beaker of water, where they swam about apparently completely unharmed. A true mass caesarean where the unfortunate mother perished but about 50 little caesars survived!
I acquired a few and, like Dave and Al, fed them on Tubifex worms. I had no incidents with my cleaner! As tadpoles do, they metamorphosed into adults, shiny black and orange-yellow animals that looked as if they'd been hand-painted. Three of mine survived finals, my long holiday to Yugoslavia (photos on the Flickr site), the flat in Whittingstall Road, Fulham, the Flat in Sutton Court Road, Chiswick, the trip to Cornwall and a couple of years in my lab at Redruth Grammar School and various places of residence. They somehow escaped when in my lab, I've no idea how, and one was found stiff, dry and covered in dust in the bottom of a cupboard when we were moving sites after merging with the local Secondary Modern to form Redruth Comprehensive.
The grass snakes I recall, too. I popped a spare live one into my lab coat pocket, can't remember why, but down in the Refectory at coffee, with seats a bit hard to come by, I made some space by sitting near a load of girls and taking out the snake. Result: plenty of room for us all. I didn't keep the snake.
c1915 postcard view of businesses in downtown Odon, Indiana. A review of the 1907 and 1913 Sanborn fire insurance map sets for Odon indicates this is probably a view of the northwest corner of Main and Spring Streets. Both map sets show a two-story brick building on the corner, a single-story brick building next door, and two single-story frame buildings farther west. In this postcard view, the only two identifiable businesses are the FARMERS BANK and the M. B. ULRICH & ___ store. The sign in the middle of the intersection reads TO RIGHT.
The automobile is parked in front of the bank. Neither Sanborn map set shows a bank in that location. The only reference to the Farmers Bank of Odon I could find online was an item in an online town history. That history mentioned the announcement in late 1913 of the creation of this new bank.
The 1907 map shows a grocery and dry goods store on the corner while the 1913 set shows a drug store that also sold paints and wallpaper. The drug store awnings advertise DRUGS, and a sign near the entrance advertises PAINTS. CIGARS are also advertised. An M. B. Ulrich & Co. had a drug store at 10th and Lafayette in Terre Haute according to THE ERA DRUGGISTS’ DIRECTORY, Volume 14, 1910. He wasn’t listed at all in a 1905 directory or any of the later volumes of this directory that I found online.
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1909 postmarked postcard view of the rural mail carriers' wagons and a trolley car on Main Street in Portland, Indiana. Some of the horses were covered by blankets and several of the wagons had smoke rising from their chimneys.
According to information provided by the Jay County Historical Society, this is the Hawkins Building. It is still located on the northeast corner at Meridian and Main Streets. This view was looking NNE across that intersection. The post office was in this building as was Ramsey's Men's store for many years. The 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Portland shows the post office on this corner (101 North Meridian Street). The map set also shows three other businesses in that building along Main Street. Those businesses were a meat market (108 East Main Street), a barbershop (110 East Main Street) and an express office (112 East Main Street). A 1907 directory¹ listed W. E. Eckman & Co. with a meat market at 108 East Main Street and listed Marvin Stephenson as the barber at 110 East Main Street. The top of a barber’s pole can be seen (leaning at an angle) above one of the horses in this scene. The UNITED STATES EXPRESS CO. sign identified the company doing business at 112 East Main Street.
The second-floor windows above the post office advertised S. S. STRATTON, GEN INSURANCE AGT, representing THE HOME INSURANCE CO. of NEW YORK. The 1907 directory listed an insurance agent by the name of H. L. Stratton, but did not include an address. There was no listing for an S. S. Stratton.
The interurban station was established just outside this view to the right sometime after 1910. The station was located across the alley east of the Bimel Block (also outside this view) according to the 1920 Sanborn™ map set. The 1910 map set shows a boarding house at that location. The Muncie & Portland Traction Company provided interurban service. It was incorporated in 1902, but was reorganized in 1905. The 32-mile line between Muncie and Portland was constructed in 1906. The goal was to link the Indiana Union Traction Company (I. U. T.) system at Muncie with the Western Ohio Traction Company at Celina, Ohio via Portland. The Ball brothers of Muncie were the officers and directors of the company, but offices were in Portland. The I. U. T. acquired the Muncie & Portland Traction Co. in 1916. There was an interesting tidbit about the company’s operations in a 1907 State of Indiana report.²
"The Muncie and Portland Traction Company represented to the Commission that disturbances of the public peace frequently occurred along its line, when it was necessary to send out the sheriff or chief of police for the purpose of looking after the disturbance, and the company inquired whether or not it might lawfully furnish free transportation to such officials…. After consideration the company was advised that according to paragraph "E" of section 14 of the amended act creating the Commission, the company could not furnish free transportation, excepting to “policemen or other peace officers while in uniform, within their respective towns or cities.”
1. M & M Directory Co., publishers, Complete Directory of Jay County (Muncie, IN: The Central Printing Co., 1907). Available online at archive.org/stream/jaycountyindiana1907robi#page/n5/mode/2up.
2. Railroad Commission of Indiana Second Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of Indiana, 1907 (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, 1907), page 309. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=4vwWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
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Postcard Description
1908 postmarked postcard showing a huge crowd gathered in the public square at Shelbyville, Indiana. They were there to watch the circus parade. The date was September 6, 1907. This Forepaugh-Sells Circus had been in Fort Wayne on the 2nd. The circus wagon numbers were 91, 56, 52 and 43. Besides all the people and the circus wagons, there were numerous personal buggies and wagons as well. One of the wagons near the lower left-hand corner was a delivery wagon advertising FIVE POINTS GROCER. Most of the owner’s name, __ __LARK, can’t be seen. The 1909 Chadwick history² mentions a “Lester Clark, grocer,” but provides no further information.
This view is looking southwest. The two-story frame building at the left housed four businesses according to the 1905 and 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Shelbyville. Those businesses in 1905 were, from east to west, confectionery, barbershop, harness shop and saloon with pool and billiards in the back. By 1910, the confectionery business had been replaced by a moving pictures business and the saloon replaced by a drugstore. In this scene, the business sign on the left advertised CONFECTIONS, but the name at the top of that sign isn’t quite readable. A 1902 business directory¹ listed a confectioner by the name of A. L. Sparks at this location (43 Public Square). The next sign to the west advertised J. W. WORDEN’S HARNESS SHOP (39 Public Square). The LAW OFFICE sign upstairs includes a single name, but it’s not readable. The 1902 business directory included a listing for a saloon owned by Cheney and Doran next to the harness shop (37 Public Square).
Both map sets identified the store in the southwest corner (35 Public Square) as simply a general store and showed the K. of P. Lodge on the third floor. In this scene, the sign on the utility pole back in that corner advertised MONDAY SEP 2. The remainder is unreadable. The store with the HEADQUARTERS FOR SCHOOL BOOKS AND SUPPLIES banner was identified in both map sets as a clothing store (33 Public Square). Next door, (31 Public Square), the sign advertised JOHN HORST BOOTS & SHOES. Both map sets show a boots and shoes business at this location and the 1902 directory also listed the Horst business at this location. Both map sets show a bank on the corner at West Washington Street (27-29 Public Square). The sign on that building identified it as FIRST NATIONAL BANK. It wasn’t listed in the 1902 directory. Upstairs from the bank was a sign advertising OFFICE OF HOME ADDITION LOTS 2 DOWN ___ WEEK NO TAXES NO INTEREST NO MORTGAGE NO EXTRAS PAYMENTS MADE AT SHELBY NATIONAL BANK T. E. GOODRICH AGT.
At the back of the bank building on West Washington Street, a small sign just above the circus wagon advertised a LAW OFFICE. The name is unreadable, but that sign was at the entrance that probably led to the stairway to the upper floors of the bank building. The address of the two-story brick building west of the bank was 21 West Washington Street. The 1902 directory listed the “Downey & Major” law firm at that address. Two small frame buildings stood next door (23 and 25 West Washington Street). The 1905 map set showed an office and a wallpaper business at those locations, respectively. The 1910 map set showed a wallpaper and a fruit business at those respective locations. The PICTURE FRAMES and WALL PAPER & MOULDINGS signs were at the 25 W. Washington Street address in this scene. Another sign identified the proprietor as CHARLES B. CAGE. The 1902 business directory listed “Lange & Cage” in the wall paper business at that address.
1. Johnson’s Business and Professional Directory (Washington, D. C.: Johnson Publishing Co., 1902). Available online at archive.org/details/johnsonsbusiness190203wash.
2. Edward H. Chadwick, Chadwick’s History of Shelby County, Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bownen & Co., 1909). Available online at ia802704.us.archive.org/0/items/chadwickshistory01chad/ch....
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Indiana History Prints
I created my first Indiana History Prints in 2002. The early prints were digital collages based on authentic original antique postcards, advertisements, and other paper items. I have continued to make a few collage prints, but also began creating prints from a few individual postcards and advertisements. All of the prints have been based on items from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That was the era when railroads already crisscrossed the state and provided the primary means of transporting passengers, freight and the mail. However, around the turn of the century, the interurban system arose and expanded rapidly. The interurban lines and the railroads were competing in some respects and, together, these two rail systems provided excellent service throughout much of the state. Their importance has been memorialized in hundreds of postcard scenes of trains, trolleys, bridges, stations and passengers. Then, just as the interurban system was becoming an integral part of Hoosiers’ lives, the automobile arrived and changed everything. Initially, it displaced the horse-drawn vehicles that were the primary means of local transportation. As roads were improved between communities to accommodate the automobiles, the interurban system began a fairly rapid decline followed by passenger service on the railroads. These changes were well documented by the photographers and postcard manufacturers and by the advertising from that era. The best examples of the postcards and photographs offer some amazing views of that era.
Personal and business communications were changing as well. The telephone was not yet widely available. The Post Office Department began selling the first postal cards at post offices in 1873, but businesses were the primary users. Picture postcards first appeared in Europe and eventually in the U.S. after the turn of the century. Those postcards quickly became a convenient method for personal communication, especially after the postal regulations changed in 1906 to allow messages on half of the back side of the postcard. The postcards were also collectible.
In those days, mail delivery within the state often took no more than a day. Post Office Department clerks processed some of the mail on specially designed rail cars as the trains traveled from one destination to the next. Several postcard scenes from that era show postal clerks standing on the railroad station platforms with mail pouches. A few postcards show the mail cars, but there are very few views of the interiors of those cars.
I am entirely responsible for the creation and production of the prints. They have been produced with care and each element used in the prints looks at least as good as the original. Each print is produced in very small quantities on 100% cotton rag watercolor paper (Hahnemühle Photo Rag®). The paper has a slight warm tone rather than being bright white, making it particularly suitable for printing historical objects. The prints will look good for decades, but need to be matted, framed and displayed behind glass to protect them from physical and environmental damage.
Print Description
c1910 postcard view of an arriving train and waiting passengers at Union Depot in Muncie, Indiana. The depot was located west of Walnut Street on the south side of the L. E. & W. (Lake Erie & Western) Railroad and north of the C. C. C. & St. L. (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railroad. High Street ended on the north side of the L. E. & W. track behind the depot. The depot is now gone and the land is vacant. The L. E. & W. track is barely discernable in this scene, but the horse-drawn wagon approaching the depot from near the left edge of the postcard was on High Street north of that track. This view was looking northeast, probably from the two-story portion of the C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad freight house on the south side of the tracks. This freight house is shown in the 1902 and 1911 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Muncie.
Baggage carts sat on the depot platform and a large group of waiting passengers watched the train approaching from the east. A pair of horse-drawn wagons waited on the back side of the depot.
The three-story building behind the depot on the east side of High Street is shown in both Sanborn™ map sets as the office for High Street Mills. The company’s elevator and warehouse were next door and hidden in this view by the depot. The business sign on the small building north of High Street Mills advertised F. H. JEROME. The remainder of the sign is unclear, but the 1905-1906 Emerson directory¹ listed Frank H. Jerome as a drayman with a storage business at 827 South Walnut Street.
A sign near the right edge of the print appears to advertise FRED MILLER BREWING CO. Since the company’s Muncie office was at 501 Ebright Street per the 1905 directory, the sign was probably an advertisement. It appears to be on the side of the building shown in the 1911 Sanborn™ map set at 628 South Walnut Street. That building is still in use today on the north side of the railroad crossing.
1. Emerson Directory Company, Emerson’s Muncie Directory 1905-1906 (Cincinnati, OH: Williams Directory Co., 1905). Available online at libx.bsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/MunCityDirs/id....
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1909 postmarked postcard view of the rural mail carriers' wagons and a trolley car on Main Street in Portland, Indiana. Some of the horses were covered by blankets and several of the wagons had smoke rising from their chimneys.
According to information provided by the Jay County Historical Society, this is the Hawkins Building. It is still located on the northeast corner at Meridian and Main Streets. This view was looking NNE across that intersection. The post office was in this building as was Ramsey's Men's store for many years. The 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Portland shows the post office on this corner (101 North Meridian Street). The map set also shows three other businesses in that building along Main Street. Those businesses were a meat market (108 East Main Street), a barbershop (110 East Main Street) and an express office (112 East Main Street). A 1907 directory¹ listed W. E. Eckman & Co. with a meat market at 108 East Main Street and listed Marvin Stephenson as the barber at 110 East Main Street. The top of a barber’s pole can be seen (leaning at an angle) above one of the horses in this scene. The UNITED STATES EXPRESS CO. sign identified the company doing business at 112 East Main Street.
The second-floor windows above the post office advertised S. S. STRATTON, GEN INSURANCE AGT, representing THE HOME INSURANCE CO. of NEW YORK. The 1907 directory listed an insurance agent by the name of H. L. Stratton, but did not include an address. There was no listing for an S. S. Stratton.
The interurban station was established just outside this view to the right sometime after 1910. The station was located across the alley east of the Bimel Block (also outside this view) according to the 1920 Sanborn™ map set. The 1910 map set shows a boarding house at that location. The Muncie & Portland Traction Company provided interurban service. It was incorporated in 1902, but was reorganized in 1905. The 32-mile line between Muncie and Portland was constructed in 1906. The goal was to link the Indiana Union Traction Company (I. U. T.) system at Muncie with the Western Ohio Traction Company at Celina, Ohio via Portland. The Ball brothers of Muncie were the officers and directors of the company, but offices were in Portland. The I. U. T. acquired the Muncie & Portland Traction Co. in 1916. There was an interesting tidbit about the company’s operations in a 1907 State of Indiana report.²
"The Muncie and Portland Traction Company represented to the Commission that disturbances of the public peace frequently occurred along its line, when it was necessary to send out the sheriff or chief of police for the purpose of looking after the disturbance, and the company inquired whether or not it might lawfully furnish free transportation to such officials…. After consideration the company was advised that according to paragraph "E" of section 14 of the amended act creating the Commission, the company could not furnish free transportation, excepting to “policemen or other peace officers while in uniform, within their respective towns or cities.”
1. M & M Directory Co., publishers, Complete Directory of Jay County (Muncie, IN: The Central Printing Co., 1907). Available online at archive.org/stream/jaycountyindiana1907robi#page/n5/mode/2up.
2. Railroad Commission of Indiana Second Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of Indiana, 1907 (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, 1907), page 309. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=4vwWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
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c1918 postcard view of the P. C. C. & St. L. (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis) Railway Station in Dunkirk, Indiana. This station Is still located on the southwest side of the tracks at Franklin Street. The entrance is from Lincoln Avenue (formerly Converse Street). This view was looking south from the north side of the tracks.
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Titus, Lisa, and Michael Hall. Recollections of a Twentieth-Century Odalisque. New York, N.Y.: L. Titus, 1997.
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Recollections of the Bombing Range
© Mal Bell
During World War II an RAAF training school was based in Nhill and part of the training included aerial bombing practice on a range established on a Scrub Block south of Winiam. Bombs weighing 8 1/4 lbs (3.75 kg) were used on two ranges and a third range was used for a much larger bomb. The large bombs would rattle the windows of our home when they exploded.
The remains of two concrete shelters still exist on site. These shelters were fitted with observation decks on top of the heavy concrete base structure. Several other buildings were further to the south but everything that could be dismantled was auctioned shortly after the end of the war.
I have a recollection that someone, I think from Mildura, tendered for the scrap metal salvage rights and upon inspection of the sites denounced the locals as "A mob of thieving b—". I know that many locals managed to souvenir a few spent bombs and as they contained about four and a half pounds of lead they were very handy for making into fishing sinkers.
After the salvage man had declared there was nothing worth salvaging, my dad decided we should try our hand at finding some bombs. We had one of the early Land Rover four-wheel-drive utilities and would drive through the scrub behind Winiam East to the bombing range, fully equipped with some sandwiches, a water bag and a shovel each. We would dig up the bombs and load them on the ute until we had 100. This was twice the normal load limit and we reckoned it was enough for the old Land Rover. Dad would very carefully drive the ute home to be unloaded.
With this method we managed to locate a few thousand bombs and we were not the only ones collecting them at that time. The area has now been cleared for farming but I believe that a few bombs are still occasionally turned up as the paddocks are cultivated. Most of the bombs collected were smashed on an anvil with a sledge hammer, the lead, brass, cast iron and steel separated, bagged and sent to a scrap merchant. Several local people made good pocket money from this pastime.
During our fossicking expeditions we unearthed several 'live' bombs encrusted with rust and dirt. These bombs were treated with a certain amount of caution. After disassembling, cleaning and reassembling, a lengthy piece of binder twine thrown over a branch of a tall tree was used to haul the bombs skywards. We took refuge behind a near-by barn, released the twine and the bomb hurtled to the ground, erupting in a large cloud of yellow smoke and providing us with great amusement.
Several aircraft wrecks were dumped in various locations in the scrub and I believe used for navigational training. They also proved to be a bonanza for locals who stripped the aluminium sheeting, tubing and various other parts. Gas canisters still containing gas, live .303 ammunition and various other buried treasures were also found by locals.
I recall planes flying over the south scrub towing targets behind them on a long cable and a number of other planes firing at these targets. One of the targets became detached from the towing aircraft and a search in the scrub by the RAAF failed to find it. Some time later my father located it and the prized silken material went to make household goods.
Numerous other stories could be told about the history of the bombing range and its contribution to the war effort but for me the most important recollections are about those days when we went 'bomb' prospecting.
Extract from Westprint Friday Five May 6th 2011
c1910 postcard view of the Yellow Banks Hotel bathing beach on Webster Lake near North Webster, Indiana. Numerous guests, mostly women, were posing for the camera. Most were in the water or in the boats, but a few with small children were on the shore nearby.
The 1915 Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for Indiana had this to say about the hotel. “The hotel has accommodations for about one hundred and fifty guests, and enjoying the large popularity that has come to it deservedly, one does wisely by writing previously to his coming to the lake to have his quarters reserved for him. The building this year is a new one, the old one having burned down last December. For those who come to fish, about forty-five boats are kept in readiness at the pier.”¹
This is a John Inbody photograph (Elkhart, Indiana). He was an extraordinary photographer and very good when it came to capturing people in his photographs.
1. Department of Fisheries and Game, Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, 1908), page 166. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=UIkmAQAAIAAJ&printsec=front....
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Titus, Lisa, and Michael Hall. Recollections of a Twentieth-Century Odalisque. New York, N.Y.: L. Titus, 1997.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.
La he oscurecido a petición de Sara que no quería que se la viese mucho, así que juntándose con su pelo (moreno) no se ve apenas nada...
Uncle Walters recollections -
"That was in Berlin. The wagons weren’t always that clean! We were still working, we did a lot of work. That must have been just after the Victory Parade, the wagons have been painted.”
Uncle Walter would have just turned 20 here.
c1910 postcard view of Main street in Lafayette, Indiana. This view was from the courthouse steps and looking east-northeast toward the North Fourth Street intersection.
The partially visible awning at the left edge of this scene was probably on the Howe and Shipley storefront at 330 Main Street. The 1899 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Lafayette is somewhat unclear about the identity of this building The “PERRIN B’LDG” label appears to apply to this four-story building and the two-story building next door to the west. That label is missing from the 1907 and 1915 map sets.
The BOOK STORE and PICTURE FRAMES signs were on the building at 334 Main Street. The 1899 map set shows a bookstore at that address, and a 1902 Indiana business directory¹ listed Robert L. Jaques as the proprietor of that bookstore. The 1907 map set shows a stationery and sporting goods business at that address with picture framing on the third floor. The 1909 R. L. Polk directory for the city² listed the Jacques-Mueller Co. at this address under the categories “Books and Stationery—Retail,” “Pictures and Picture Frames,” and “Sporting Goods.”
At the east end of that block, the two signs advertised SPECTACLES and WATCHES AND DIAMONDS. The 1899 and 1907 map sets identified the business on that corner (336 Main Street) as a jewelry store. The 1902 directory listed Kachlein & Rising Co. as jewelers and opticians operating a business at that address. The 1909 directory listed C. Q. Erisman & Co. at that address in the "Watches, Clocks & Jewelry" category.
Across the street, on the northeast corner of the Fourth Street intersection, the sign at the top of the building advertised BALTIMORE and the awning advertised THE BALTIMORE. The 1899 and 1907 map sets show a clothing business on this corner (400-404 Main Street). The 1902 directory listed the Oppenheimer Brothers with a clothing business at 404 Main Street. The 1909 directory listed this as The Baltimore Clothing House (400-404 Main Street) and identified the president as Levi Oppenheimer. The 1915 Sanborn map set identified this as the Oppenheimer Building, but didn’t identify the nature of the business in the building.
From the collection of Thomas Keesling.
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