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Glamour in the Collection

 

Lew Wallace Letters Go West

 

What Is a Hoosier?

 

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Danger on the River

 

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Steamboats racing on the Ohio River was not an unusual sight in 1929.

Our Volunteer of the Year

 

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Meet Michael Thrall

 

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Donor Spotlight: The Kruse Family

 

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A Family's Search for Avriel Shull

 

Steve McQueen: The Great Escape

 

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IHS Teams Up with Eiteljorg

 

The Iron-Gall Ink Project

 

Bringing Back a 154-Year-Old Book

 

Postcards Send Glimpse of Past

 

One-of-a-Kind WWII Collection

 

Did You Know Uneeda Biscuit?

 

A Small Organization, Big Job

 

Q&A with Howard County

 

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Howard County Historical Society staff members, from left, Stew Lauterbach, curator; Kelly Karickhoff, executive director; and Bonnie Van Kley, curator of archives show off their Outstanding Historical Organization Award from IHS.

Banding Together to Preserve Indiana's Treasures

 

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Hoosier Justice at Nuremburg

 

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The Native Americans

 

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Kids Create History Walking Tours

 

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On the Front Lines at History Day

 

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Matt Durrett, IHS’s National History Day in Indiana state coordinator, visits students at Hauser High School in Hope to help them plan their projects.

Images

 

Fred Stone

Seeing comic performer Fred Stone is Howard Caldwell's first memory of the English Theatre.

Dorothy Francis

Dorothy Francis played Natalie in The Merry Widow at the English Theatre in 1921.

Ethel Barrymore

Several members of the famed Drew and Barrymore families appeared at the English. Ethel Barrymore, the great aunt of actress Drew Barrymore, shown here with her three children, was a crowd favorite. She first performed at the theater in 1896.

Wallace letter

 

106 year old

This 1947 portrait of a 106-year-old Hoosier is part of IHS's O. James Fox Collection.

Tool Guys

 

Tool Guys

This photograph, from the Cecil Beeson Collection at the Indiana Historical Society, was a fairly unanimous choice by the You Are There project team. ''The beautiful, ghostly image has a haunting quality,'' Eloise says. ''You can almost hear the sounds of clanging tools and the hustle and bustle of a busy auto mechanic's workspace.''

Marty

IHS Exhibitions Coordinator Martin Douglas carefully cleans the cylinder head of a vintage Fordson tractor.''I'm all about cars,'' says Martin. ''I'm having a great time with this project.''

Kansky home

The Kansky home in the Avalon Hills neighborhood in Indianapolis was built in 1960.

Blueprint - Shull

The Avriel Shull Architectural Records Collection at IHS includes drawings, tracings and blueprints as well as contracts, permits, correspondence, bills and invoices.

Iron Gall Ink Testing

 

Iron Gall Washing

 

Iron Gall Deterioration

 

Kathy L.

Intern Kathy Lechuga spent 10 hours restoring the Indianapolis Directory.

Booth book

The directory bears an inscription dated 1932 from Hoosier author Booth Tarkington.

Mishawaka postcard

This scene of men herding sheep near Mishawaka is an example of a halftone photo postcard that was colored before printing. The card is postmarked 1916.

Pleasant Lake postcard

Main Street in Pleasant Lake is pictured here on a printed postcard circa 1900 to 1910, a decade which marked a sharp rise in the postcard's popularity.

Yamashita

Master Sgt. Bob Kennedy handwrote a caption for this photo: ''Gen. [Tomoyuki] Yamashita being taken to his first hearing in Manila, shortly after his surrender at Baguio, P.I., where I saw him – Manila, P.I. – 1945.'' Known as ''The Tiger of Malaya,'' Yamashita was later tried for war crimes by an American military tribunal and sentenced to death.

Uneeda

Who could resist a biscuit from this charming young lady? Uneeda Biscuit was created around 1899 by the National Biscuit Company, later known as Nabisco. It was the first advertising campaign to feature a packaged, ready-to-eat food.

Kitty ad

Many of the items in the IHS Collection feature small creatures like the Garland Stoves and Ranges cats and dogs, circa 1890s.

Domestic Wringer

Children, like the playful youngsters doing the laundry for Domestic Wringer, were often featured in advertising material from the late 1800s.

Joyce Lantz

Joyce Lantz, Collections Manager, Greentown Historical Society.

McQueen

 

Nenkom Family

The Nenkom family poses in 1930 in Terre Haute. (The Martin Collection, IHS)

Our 180th Year

 

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Concerts on the Canal

 

Sponsors

 

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BarbDI

 

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Behind the Journeys

 

Dan

 

Interpreting the Past

 

Cole and Friends

 

What a Swell Party This Is!

 

Steve Jackson

 

A County Historian's Talk-Show Moment

 

Van

 

Meet the Local History Services Team

 

IHS Seeks Award Nominations

 

Meet H. Roll McLaughlin

 

In Your Neighborhood

 

Canal Collection Returns to Indiana

 

Barker

 

Outstanding Local History Organization

 

Leppard

 

Mays

 

Riley's Image Comes Home

 

Hot off the IHS Press

 

Meet Dianne Cartmel

 

H. Roll McLaughlin

 

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Dianne Cartmel

MW Roots

 

Canal

 

Riley

 

Secrets 3

 

Fighter Pilot good

 

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