Processed by
Stephen J. Fletcher
29 February 1996
Revised by Dorothy Nicholson
7 June 2004
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
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VOLUME OF |
1 folder of photographs |
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COLLECTION |
1918–1952 |
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PROVENANCE: |
Unknown |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
None |
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COPYRIGHT: |
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REPRODUCTION |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. |
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ALTERNATE |
None |
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RELATED |
None |
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ACCESSION |
0000.0207 |
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NOTES: |
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Over the years several different families have occupied the residence at 6017 Indianola Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.. One photograph was used to identify the location of this home. On the verso of the photograph captioned “July 1952” is the street address “6017 Indianola Ave.” This address places the house on the southern edge of the Broad Ripple neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana. According to the 1952 Indianapolis city directory, Laurence E. Bowen resided there at that time.
The caption for another photograph in the collection reads (in part), “Five Clarke children.” The Indianapolis City directories indicate that Dalton T. Clarke lived at 6071 Indianola Avenue from 1923 through 1929. A caption on another of the photographs suggests that the Clarkes moved into the house around Thanksgiving, 1918, but the city directories cannot confirm that date. The City directories preceding 1923 do not cover Indianola Avenue, perhaps because Broad Ripple was a community separate from Indianapolis before 1922. For many years this house was the only house on that block.
The house remained vacant during 1930 and 1931. Eugene Kirlin occupied the house in 1932. Daniel J. Young lived at 6011 and later 6017 Indianola Ave from 1933 until 1941. Bowen then occupied the house in 1942
Sources:
Polk’s Indianapolis Directory. Indianapolis, Ind.: R. L. Polk and Co., 1918–1952. General Collection: F534 .I55 A18.
Fifteen photographs depict the house at 6017 Indianola Avenue, Indianapolis, and its environs from 1918 through July 1952. The images illustrate three distinct phases of the house’s construction history. The photographs show its transformation from a simple wood-frame house to a picturesque bungalow. Some of the photographs include people, probably the Clarkes.
Several of the photographs have captions written in red ink; others have captions (barely visible) written in pencil across the top of the photographs. The two different captions on one image conflicts but the penciled caption appears to be more accurate. The contents list provides all captions for each image. Not all images have captions.
IHS has made copy negatives of each of the three album pages. A contact sheet made from these negatives is stored with the collection. The photographer set the loose photograph on Leaf 1, side B to include the image in the copy negative; it was not previously attached to the page. The negative numbers for each leaf are listed in the contents section.
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CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
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Loose photograph: [copy
negative C1629] |
Photographs, Folder 1 |
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Leaf 1, Side A: 5
photographs [Copy negative C1628] |
Photographs, Folder 1 |
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Leaf 1, Side B: 4
photographs [Copy negative C1629] |
Photographs, Folder 1 |
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Leaf 2: 5 photographs |
Photographs, Folder 1 |
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Contact sheet made from copy negative numbers; C1627, C1628, C1629 |
Photographs, Folder 1 |
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