Posts tagged History

The #Indiana Arsenal, which was completed in 1867, was used until after he end of the Spanish-American War, about 1903, as the store house for artillery and other weapons. (at Arsenal Technical High School)

The #Indiana Arsenal, which was completed in 1867, was used until after he end of the Spanish-American War, about 1903, as the store house for artillery and other weapons. (at Arsenal Technical High School)

Found this digitized collection of Frank Widener photographs of #Indy in the 1960s. Too bad there’s no images from Indiana Avenue …  

Madam Walker Beauty Culturists Union Convention Ribbon

Check out the post by Jenny Rigsby about Madam Walker’s use of conventions to teach people how to sell her products.

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When I was born in 1922, barely a hundred years after Indiana became the nineteenth state in the union, the Middle West already boasted a constellation of cities with symphony orchestras and museums and libraries, and institutions of higher learning, and schools of music and art, reminiscent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the First World War. One could almost say that Chicago was our Vienna, Indianapolis our Prague, Cincinnati our Budapest, and Cleveland our Bucharest.
To Be a Native Middle-Westerner by Kurt Vonnegut, an essay in “Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana”.
Interior of George’s Bar on Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, ca 1950.  Image from the Emmett I. Brown, Jr. Photograph Collection at the Indiana Historical Society.

Interior of George’s Bar on Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, ca 1950.  Image from the Emmett I. Brown, Jr. Photograph Collection at the Indiana Historical Society.

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