Sunday Adverts: Franklin Mutual Life Insurance Company
The Franklin Fire Insurance Company, featured in this September 1874 ad, was chartered in 1851 in...
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Author: Jessica Ballard-Barnett
Sunday Adverts: Tucker Glove Company
Graduation time is upon us – the time for caps, gowns, and in the early 1900’s,...
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Sunday Adverts: Old Style Lager
Spring’s here, and summer’s coming – and sometimes what’s better than a...
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Sunday Adverts: Nik-O-Lok Toilet Lock Company
Ad Courtesy of Private Collection of Bradley Keen The Nik-O-Lok Company, which manufactures coin...
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Sunday Adverts: Encyclopedia Britannica
Ad Courtesy of Private Collection of Bradley Keen Sixty years ago, before the days of Google and...
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Sunday Adverts: Charles Mayer & Company
Ad Courtesy of Private Collection of Bradley Keen In 1840, German immigrant Charles Mayer opened a...
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Sunday Adverts: Tasti-Diet
Ad Courtesy of Private Collection of Bradley Keen As bathing suit season neared in the...
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Sunday Adverts: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
By 1950, Fabien Sevitsky had led the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for thirteen years. Under...
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Sunday Advert: H.P. Wasson
I’m not ashamed to admit it – I love shoes. In 1909, I would have probably frequented...
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Sunday Adverts: Redfern Corsets
When this ad ran in January 1910, corsets were the quintessential undergarment for fashionable...
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Sunday Adverts: Obed Foote, Atty at Law
This week’s Sunday Advert comes to you from almost two hundred years ago, when Indianapolis...
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Sunday Adverts: The Remy Hotel
This ad, from the 1880 City Directory, features the Remy Hotel, once located on the southwest...
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Sunday Adverts: “The Favorite”
In 1899, “The Favorite,” billed as a confectionery, sold ice cream soda, candies, and … oysters?...
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Friday Favorite: A New Look at Lincoln
Have you ever taken the “one tank trip” to Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood home in southern Indiana, to...
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