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Historic Photos of Indianapolis - George Hanlin
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
INDIANAPOLIS
Noon hour at an Indianapolis meatpacking house, 1908. Kingan and Company, located at Maryland and Blackford Streets along the White River, was the city’s largest meatpacking plant. Lewis Hine, who traveled around the country documenting child laborers, visited Indianapolis in August 1908 and likely took this photo there.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
INDIANAPOLIS
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2006905290
ISBN: 1-59652-253-4
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
OUT OF THE WILDERNESS
MONUMENTAL CELEBRATIONS
HARD HEARTS, HARD TIMES
THE CITY AT A CROSSROADS
NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS
Washington Street, looking east from the intersection of Pennsylvania Street and Virginia Avenue, circa 1920
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume, Historic Photos of Indianapolis, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of several individuals, organizations, institutions, and corporations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge the valuable contribution of the following for their generous support.
Buchanan Group
Indiana State Library
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Power and Light
Library of Congress
We would also like to express our gratitude to Marcia Caudell, Joan Hostetler, Susan Sutton, and Elizabeth Wilkinson for providing research and assisting the author.
PREFACE
Indianapolis has thousands of historic photographs that reside in archives, both locally and nationally. This book began with the observation that, while those photographs are of great interest to many, often they are not easily accessible. During a time when Indianapolis is looking ahead and evaluating its future course, many people are asking, How do we treat the past?
These decisions affect every aspect of the city–architecture, public spaces, commerce, tourism, recreation, and infrastructure—and these, in turn, affect the way that people live their lives. This book seeks to provide easy access to a valuable, objective look into the history of this great city.
The power of photographic images is that they are less subjective in their treatment of history. Although the photographer can make decisions regarding what subject matter to capture and some limited variation in its presentation, photographs do not provide the breadth of interpretation that text does. For this reason, they offer an original, untainted perspective that allows the viewer to interpret and observe.
This project represents countless hours of research and review. The researchers and author have reviewed thousands of photographs in numerous archives. We greatly appreciate the generous assistance of the archivists listed in the acknowledgments of this work, without whom this project could not have been completed.
The goal in publishing this work is to provide broader access to a set of extraordinary photographs that seek to inspire, provide perspective, and evoke insight that might assist people who are responsible for determining Indianapolis’s future. In addition, the book seeks to preserve the past with adequate respect and reverence.
The photographs selected have been reproduced in dramatic black-and-white tones to provide depth to the images. With the exception of touching up imperfections caused by the damage of time, no other changes have been made. The focus and clarity of many images is limited to the technology and the ability of the photographer at the time they were taken.
The work is divided into eras. Beginning with some of the earliest known photographs of Indianapolis, the first section records photographs from the Civil War through the end of the nineteenth century. The second section spans the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of World War I. Section three moves from the 1920’s to the 1930’s. And finally, section four covers the 1940’s to the 1960’s.
In each of these sections we have made an effort to capture various aspects of life through our selection of photographs. People, commerce, transportation, infrastructure, religious institutions, educational institutions, and scenes of natural beauty have been included to provide a broad perspective.
We encourage readers to reflect as they traverse the streets of downtown, stroll along Monument Circle, or peer into the city’s many shops and venues. Electric streetcars once traveled throughout the city, farms were in abundance, and many buildings, long since demolished, stood where newer buildings of the late twentieth century stand today. It is my hope that in utilizing this work, longtime residents will learn something new and that new residents will gain a perspective on where Indianapolis has been, so that each can