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1913 postmarked postcard view of the Brickert and Clements horse-drawn delivery wagon. The signage on the wagon indicates the store was located in Mt. Clair. The message is addressed to Mrs. James Rawling of Lizton and reads, "Dear Madam, Ask for Brickert's Special Brand Coffee on sale next week for 15 cts per pound. E. C. Brickert"
From a private collection.
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Punta de Tralca, Chile
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1909 postmarked postcard view of the West Baden Springs Hotel in West Baden, Indiana. This hotel opened in 1902 after fire had destroyed the older structure in 1901. It has been refurbished and reopened for business in 2007.
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Commissioned in 1984 and originally located at the first Gateway Center Station, this mural was moved to the present Gateway Center Station when the Light Rail (commonly known as the "T") was expanded.
It is done in ceramic tile, artist Romaire Bearden.
Fictional postcard with a twist, New Frankfort, Indiana
Fictional postcards weren’t uncommon in the early postcard era. Many were humorous and used methods to achieve effects we would call “photoshopping” today. Other examples included postcards with the same scene sold in multiple cities or towns (and sometimes in multiple states) with the only difference being the city or town name in the title. This postcard appears to be the latter type where the photograph upon which it was based came from elsewhere and had a new title applied by the printer. However, this example is unusual. The following is the story I’ve pieced together.
This postcard view of an interurban stop is titled, “Interurban Railroad, N. Frankfort, Ind.” and it was postmarked in 1910. The “N. Frankfort” was probably referring to New Frankfort in Scott County. There was no North Frankfort in Indiana, and New Frankfort probably would have been on the interurban route between Madison and Scottsburg that was first proposed two years earlier. However, that route was never constructed and this postcard was probably created as an advertising piece for the proposed interurban route. It is possible that similar postcards for other communities along the proposed route exist.
Scottsburg was on the busy interurban line that connected Louisville and Indianapolis. Madison, however, was never connected to the interurban system that linked so many other communities in Indiana. Two separate efforts to bring interurban service to Madison materialized in 1903. One of these involved the creation of the Madison, Greensburg & Indianapolis Railway Company that proposed a new interurban rail line extending north from Madison to Greensburg via Versailles and Osgood. The other interurban route involving Madison was proposed by the Southern Traction Company of Indiana. This route would have connected Madison and Columbus via Hanover and North Vernon. However, both projects were among more than 250 proposed interurban routes in Indiana that were never constructed.
A third proposal involving Madison arose In 1908 when the Cincinnati, Madison & Western Traction Company (C. M. & W.) incorporated and proposed construction of an interurban line between Scottsburg and Cincinnati via Madison. The following announcement was published on February 8, 1908.[1]
RECENT INCORPORATIONS.
Cincinnati, Madison, & Western Traction Company. — Incorporated in Indiana to build a number of short lines radiating from Scottsburg to surrounding cities and towns in Indiana and Ohio. These new lines will be built as extensions of the Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Company's line from Seymour to Jeffersonville, now in operation. The different routes as outlined in the articles of incorporation are as follows:
From Scottsburg through Scott and Jefferson counties to Madison, and thence in a northeasterly direction through Switzerland, Ohio, Ripley and Dearborn counties in Indiana to Cincinnati; also in a westerly direction from Scottsburg through Salem in Washington county and through Paoli to West Baden and French Lick; also northwesterly from Scottsburg to Bedford, Ind. It is announced that construction work will be started in the spring. Capital stock, $50,000. Incorporators: J. E. Greeley, Louisville, Ky.; S. D. Miller. Maurice Cahill, G. B. Gaston and G. N. Owen, Indianapolis, Ind.
John E. Greeley was one of the C. M. & W. founders. Mr. Greeley was also involved in other southern Indiana interurban activities. A 1908 directory listed J. E. Greeley as vice-president of the Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Co. In 1912, he was president and general manager when the successor to that company sold at foreclosure.
Over the course of the next few years, several C. M. & W. announcements of corporate activities appeared in various publications. This first group appeared in a weekly industry journal[2] between January and July, 1910.
(January 15, 1910) New Ohio-Indiana Line
J. E. Greeley, president of the Cincinnati, Madison & Western Traction Company, has stated that work on the new line will be begun in April at the latest. The line will run from Madison to Scottsburg, Ind., making connection at the latter point with the Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Company for Louisville and Indianapolis. Extensions are also proposed to French Lick and Salem. Subsidies amounting to over $100,000 were voted the road last fall and at the same time preliminary surveys were made and the proposed route laid out. At a meeting of the promoters of the line in Pittsburg last week action was taken that makes it appear that the project is fully financed.
(January 29, 1910) SCOTTSBURG, IND. — The Cincinnati, Madison & Western Railway Company, which will build a line from Scottsburg to Madison connecting at the former point with the Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Company, is expected to begin construction within 90 days. J. E. Greeley of Louisville, Ky, is president.
(February 19, 1910) SCOTTSBURG, IND. — The Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Company has awarded a contract to J. T. Wiley & Son, of Louisville for a new station at Scottsburg at the junction of the line and that of the Cincinnati, Madison & Western which is to be built from Scottsburg to Madison.
(June 11, 1910) MADISON, IND. — Work on the proposed interurban from Madison to Scottsburg has begun to save the subsidy voted by Madison county.
(June 11, 1910) SCOTTSBURG, IND. — The Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Company has just completed a new interurban station at Scottsburg. The building is of concrete and Georgia pine. The lower floor has a large passenger waiting room, ticket office and a freight room which accommodates several car loads of freight. A roomy baggage room is located in the center of the building. At the north-end is a large open freight shed. The office of the train dispatcher is in a small room extending from the center. A special side track has been built behind the building which parallels an open freight platform for the accommodation of drays, etc.
(July 2, 1910) HANOVER, IND. — The Southern Indiana Traction Company will construct an interurban line between Madison and Scottsburg. A large power house is to be erected at Madison. J. E. Greeley is vice-president of the company.
The name used in that last entry was probably an editing error. The following was published April 29, 1911, in another trade publication.[3]
Cincinnati, Madison & Western Traction Company, Indianapolis, Ind. — Bids will be received until May 30 by this company for building its 41-mile electric railway to connect Hanover, Madison, Scottsburg and Lexington. J. E. Greeley, Louisville, president. (E. R. J. April 1, ‘11)
The following was published April 13, 1912, in another magazine.[4]
SCOTTSBURG, IND. The Indianapolis & Louisville El. Ry. Co. has been organized to take over the property of the Indianapolis & Louisville Trac. Co. which was sold March 21 at a receiver's sale. The company is capitalized at $1,200,000 and proposes to improve the service between Indianapolis and Louisville and contemplates an extension of the present line to Madison and eventually to Cincinnati. Jerome Hill, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., is president and J. E. Greeley, Louisville, Ky, vice-president.
In 1913, The C. M. & W. Traction Co. was still trying to obtain right-of-way for the route. [5]
Chapter 343.
AN ACT granting a right-of-way to the Cincinnati, Madison & Western Traction Company, its successors and assigns through the lands of the State of Indiana embraced in the site of the southeastern hospital for the insane in Madison township, Jefferson county, Indiana.
(H 397. Approved March 15, 1913.)
Preamble.
Whereas, The Cincinnati, Madison & Western Traction Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Indiana, proposes to construct and operate an interurban railway from the city of Madison, county of Jefferson, Indiana, by the way of North Madison to the town of Scottsburg, in Scott county, Indiana, to connect at Scottsburg with the line of the Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Railway Company, now operating through cars between Indianapolis and Louisville, and
Whereas, The most convenient and practical route for said Cincinnati, Madison & Western Traction Company's line, and for the public, is upon and over the said lands of the above described hospital near the north and western border of said lands, and
Whereas, It is to the interest of the people of the State of Indiana that access be made as convenient as possible to the said hospital premises, therefore....
By 1913, the popularity of the automobile and other factors were adversely affecting the interurban industry. In the very early years of the 20th century, state maps were more likely to show railroad and interurban lines than roads, but the arrival of the automobile soon led to public demand for road improvements and expansion, and the emergence of that new transportation system soon began to affect passenger volumes on the interurban routes. The change came fairly quickly, catching many interurban companies off guard and speeding the consolidation of the fractured industry. The changes during this period were probably responsible for the bulk of the 250 or more interurban projects that were never built in Indiana.
1. Electric Railway Review, Vol. XIX (Chicago, IL: The Wilson Co., 1908), page 188. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=NkU_AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Electric Traction Weekly, Vol. VI. (Chicago, IL: The Kenfield-Fairchild Publishing Co., 1910). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=q-1HAQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. Henry W. Blake et al., editors, Electric Railway JournalXXXVII (New York City, NY: McGraw Hill Publishing Co., 1911), page 772. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=1wBGAQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
4. New Incorporations, Electrical World, Vol. LIX, No. 15. (New York City, NY: McGraw Publishing Co., 1912), page 829. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=XGlEAQAAIAAJ&printsec=front....
5. L. G. Ellingham, Secretary of State, Laws of the State of Indiana Passed by the Sixty-Eighth Regular Session of the General Assembly (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, 1913) page 932. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=qBs4AAAAIAAJ&printsec=front....
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1909 postmarked postcard view of the Evansville Cotton Mills and surrounding area in Evansville, Indiana. The mills were located along the west side of St. Joseph Avenue between Ohio and Alabama Streets. This view was looking east. St. Joseph Avenue was on the far side of the factory in this view and the Ohio River was in the background. A stockade-style fence enclosed the property. The L. & N. (Louisville & Nashville) Railroad passed southeast of the factory and a railroad siding extended onto the factory property from Ohio Street. The 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Evansville shows most of the mill structures that can be seen in this view. The prominent brick chimney was 90 feet tall.
In the late 19th century, the Evansville facility was the largest of its kind west of the Alleghenies. The business had closed by 1910 and the site was later bought by Mead Johnson.
From the collection of Thomas Keesling.
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