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#ThrowbackThursday » Men clearing ice near Fourteenth Street Bridge in Clarksville, Indiana, 1940. From @IndianaAlbum #indianahistory
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🏛️ ROUND 1, MATCH 7 🏛️
Jefferson Co. vs. Ripley Co.
The original Jefferson Co. Courthouse original burned down, & the current one had fires in 1859 & 2009 (when the cupola collapsed). Thomas Patterson designed the Ripley Co. Courthouse (1861).
Photo cred: @IndianaAlbum
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This unique gravestone belongs to Ina Palmer who is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Richland City. She was married to William H. Axton & had two daughters, Hallie Dee Axton and Hazel Marie Axton—probably the same girls pictured in this c.1900-1905 photo.
Photo from @IndianaAlbum
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It's #NationalPizzaDay! Check out this vintage postcard depicting Pizza Inn, which was formerly located at 61st & Allisonville in Indy. We'd love to see your photos of local pizza places or folks enjoying a slice! 🍕 Photo Credit: @IndianaAlbum ia-0021-0053
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It's #LibraryShelfieDay and we've got a card catalog classic circa 1905. Put your best shelf forward and show us your #Shelfies!
📷 courtesy @IndianaAlbum ia-0001-0741.
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It's almost that time again so saddle up your turkeys and enjoy your #Thanksgiving to the fullest! 🦃 #ThanksgivingWeek #TurkeyTime #INarchivist
Photo courtesy @IndianaAlbum ia-0407-0004.
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Check out this training opportunity from our friends. @INarchivist
This Friday is our 2021 Fall Virtual Workshop with Dan Specht, Rob Herrmann, and Kenneth Crews. We hope you're looking forward to it as much as we are! #inarchivist #SIAFA21
inarchivists.org/event-44962…
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#First2DoItFriday: 0n August 17, 1859, Lafayette was the site of the first official airmail delivery in the United States. Taking off from the courthouse, John Wise used his famous balloon Jupiter to fly and deliver mail for the Lafayette Postmaster.
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We're wrapping up #ArchivesOnWheels with a priest in a horse-drawn carriage near St. Philomena Church in Oak Forest, now SS. Philomena & Cecilia Oratory, in 1906. The parish was founded in 1844. 📷 credit: @IndianaAlbum
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This evening in 1861, Lincoln is a guest at the Bates House, the best hotel in Indianapolis. At an impromptu reception in the lobby, he is almost crushed by 3,000 people who clamor to shake his hand.
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We are following @in_bureau on highlighting the protest history of Indiana. In 1925, there was a protest at Jefferson High School, Lafayette, Indiana over the forced resignation of coach and teacher Frederick J. "Fritz" Grosshans. (📸: @IndianaAlbum) #INProtestHistory
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The sporting outfits in this, the earliest known photo of a basketball game in IN, may look constricting but compared to everyday dress of 1899, they’re positively freeing! This photo, from the @IndianaAlbum, shows Shortridge High playing a YWCA team. #WhenINPlayed #ThenAndNow
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From @IndianaAlbum “Indianapolis, 1940: The Easter Bunny was good to Susan Koepper & fam leaving toys, bunnies, books & baskets of eggs & candy.
It’s thought German immigrants furst brought Easter hare tradition to Pennsylvania in 1700s 🐣 🐇
See:
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On April 7, 1942, Republic Aviation Corporation broke ground on a P-47 "Thunderbolt" manufacturing plant in Evansville. Throughout the war, the factory produced over 6,000 of the fighter planes. Photo courtesy of @IndianaAlbum.
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James Southard, with his "premature white hair" and this expression that says he's so done with it, is us right now.
Image courtesty @IndianaAlbum ia-0182-0001.
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Roselyn Bakeries, which at one time had 36 locations throughout central IN, ceased operations #OTD in 1999.
What was your favorite Roselyn treat? 🍩🧁
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Do you have a shoebox of old photos in your closet? Non-profit group @IndianaAlbum will be in the city this weekend for a Scan-a-Thon and lecture on preserving photos. The group collects and catalogs photos of Hoosier life. journalgazette.net/features/…
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The video from our historic photo lecture last night is now up at our blog! ben-hur.com/dating-and-prese… Thank you to @IndianaAlbum for such a great talk! #history #photos – at Crawfordsville, IN
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We don't know much about this Indiana man, but he's got a beard that will make you do a double take! #FacialHairFriday #archives
Photo courtesy @IndianaAlbum Thayer Family Collection
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Here’s a cool one! These are telephone operators in Jasper, IN. The @IndianaAlbum not only knows what the photo is, but who each of these people are. This belongs to the Flick Family.
