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    Historic Photos of Indiana
    Historic Photos of Indiana
    Historic Photos of Indiana
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    Historic Photos of Indiana

    By Scott M. Bushnell

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    This is the land of Hoosiers. Of George Rogers Clark’s conquest at Vincennes, a key victory for the Revolution. Of covered bridges. A fledgling automobile industry. Notre Dame. The National Road and the Lincoln Highway and Carl Fisher. Cole Porter. The Milwaukee Steamer and the Rumely Oil Pull Tractor. Riverboats on the Wabash and the Ohio. The Wabash and Erie Canal. Interurbans. James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade. Small towns and big cities. Street Fair Days in Peru. The first state capitol at Corydon. Steel in Gary. Evansville’s Municipal Market. Airmail by balloon. Union Station in Indianapolis and the Indy 500. Dunes along the Lake Michigan coast. Gandy dancers, circus parades, rollerskate basketball. Of sugar beets, sugar maples, and soybeans.

    This is Historic Photos of Indiana, filled with nearly 200 photographs reproduced in vivid black-and-white, with captions and introductions, showing the reader the places, people, and events that helped shape the lore and history of the Hoosier State.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJan 1, 2010
    ISBN9781618583987
    Historic Photos of Indiana
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    Scott M. Bushnell

    Scott M. Bushnell is a former reporter and editor for newspapers in New York State and Connecticut and for the Associated Press. He later worked in corporate communications for two Fortune 500 companies. A graduate of Dutchess Community College in his hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, and Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, he served as copy editor of the narrative history History of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1700–2005. Bushnell is the author of Hard News, Heartfelt Opinions: The History of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette and co-author of Roanoke: The Renaissance of a Hoosier Village. He and his wife, Barbara, live in rural northeast Indiana.

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      Historic Photos of Indiana - Scott M. Bushnell

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      INDIANA

      TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY SCOTT M. BUSHNELL

      Madison was among Indiana’s most successful communities when this photograph was taken in 1866. Its population had doubled in the 1840s because of its location on the Ohio River and the commerce it generated, and continued to grow in the next decade because of the Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, the first railroad built in the state.

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      INDIANA

      Turner Publishing Company

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

      Nashville, Tennessee 37219

      (615) 255-2665

      www.turnerpublishing.com

      Historic Photos of Indiana

      Copyright © 2010 Turner Publishing Company

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933005

      ISBN: 978-1-59652-553-5

      Printed in China

      10 11 12 13 14 15 16—0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      ROADS TO PROSPERITY (1850–1889)

      PROGRESS INTO A NEW CENTURY (1890–1920)

      GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES, AND WAR (1921–1945)

      A GROWING AND SHIFTING POPULATION (1946–1960S)

      NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      SOURCES

      The beginning of a balloon race in 1909 was a perilous moment as the ground crew struggled to maintain control of the craft while the pilot clambered aboard. Only the ropes of the Indiana—one of nine hot-air balloons in this race—are visible at the nascent Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This volume, Historic Photos of Indiana, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals and organizations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge the valuable contribution of the following archives for their support, as well as the efforts of many individuals, including:

      John Beatty and Curt B. Witcher of the Allen County Public Library; Thomas Castaldi, Allen County Historian; Beau Cunnygham, Tipton County Public Library; Walter Font, Curator, Allen County–Fort Wayne Historical Society; Janelle Graber, director, Eckhart Public Library, Auburn; James Harlan, director, Wayne County Historical Museum, Richmond; Jamey Hickson, Lebanon Public Library; B. Joan Keefer, director, Indiana Room, Huntington City Township Public Library; Sue King, Archivist, Morrisson-Reeves Library, Richmond; the Library of Congress; Stephen McShane, director, Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest, Gary; Nancy Masten, archivist, Miami County Historical Society; James Rodgers, director, and Fern Schultz at La Porte County Historical Society; Jan Shupert-Arick, Lincoln Highway Association; John Martin Smith, DeKalb County Historian; Mark Vopelak, Brent Abercrombie, and Marcia Caudell, Indiana State Library; Brenda Williams, director, Princeton Public Library; Gregg Williamson, director, William H. Willennar Genealogy Center, Auburn

      Steven Cox and Michael McCalip of Turner Publishing Company are due considerable gratitude for steering this book through editing and production.

      My deep appreciation is due John Walls for his professional skills in recognizing and scanning old photographs as well as to E. J. Richards and Ed Breen for their work in finding rarely seen historic images. Good friends who appreciate history and the art of photography—and who are willing to drive all over the state of Indiana to find them—are a priceless commodity.

      Last, none of this work could have been accomplished without the support and encouragement of my wife, Barbara, who makes each Indiana sunrise a wondrous event.

      ———————

      With the exception of touching up imperfections that have accrued with the passage of time and cropping where necessary, no changes have been made. The focus and clarity of many images is limited by the technology and the ability of the photographer at the time they were taken.

      PREFACE

      There are many images of Indiana that are common to the American mind. One imagines the Corn Belt sweeping across Indiana’s torso like a shawl. Others see the great manufactories of the late nineteenth century, arising from the sweat and determination of thousands of workers, native-born and immigrants. Some point to the natural beauty of the landscape interrupted by few, if any, impediments to the panoramas that seem to sweep on without end. More cite the cities that grew from stump-pocked crossroads into major metropolitan areas in a matter of decades. A few know of the literature, art, and music produced by Indiana artists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who contributed to an understanding of who we are as a nation. Those who follow agriculture recognize that Indiana is among the nation’s leaders in the production of corn, soybeans, and hogs. There are car enthusiasts who will tell you that until 1905 Indianapolis had more automobile manufacturers than Detroit. Demographers will note that while Indiana is the smallest of the contiguous states west of the Appalachian Mountains, it ranks 16th in the nation’s population.

      To an extent Indiana has always been a checkerboard of contradictions. Slavery, for example, was outlawed in the Northwest Territory from which the state was carved, but that was not the popular sentiment. A constitutional convention in 1802 unsuccessfully tried to make slavery legal, and in 1851 the state passed a constitution that prohibited African-Americans from settling in Indiana and disfranchised those freed slaves living within its borders. Yet studies show there were probably never more than 250 slaves in the state, and when it came to the Civil War, more than 24,000 men from Indiana died for the Union cause.

      The state has also played an unusual role in the nation’s politics. Indiana is the only state with a grandfather and grandson to both serve as President,

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