Posted in: Penny Post Penny Post: Riverside Bathing Beach

Postmarked: INDIANAPOLIS, IND., FEB 1911 – 12:30 PM Message: Dear Annie – Rec’d card after you were home I guess. Why didn’t you call us up. I would have broken my neck to go to...

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Posted in: Penny Post Penny Post: St. Agnes Academy to Saw Lumber

From 1893 until a 1970 merger with Ladywood, the St. Agnes Academy was an all-girls college preparatory high school operated by the Sisters of Providence. Six years later, the Sisters sold the Ladywood-St. Agnes property...

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Posted in: Penny Post Penny Post: The Riverside Bear Pit

Forty years before Indianapolis Star columnist Lowell Nussbaum organized a fundraising drive for an Indianapolis Zoo, Riverside Park housed two bears, five foxes, two eagles, one monkey, 12 alligators, and eight deer. Built at the...

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Posted in: Penny Post Penny Post: A Happy New Year, 1911!

Postcard images from cardcow.com. Postmarked: Indianapolis, IND. Dec. 26, 1910 7-PM Message: 1216 Cornell Indianapolis Ind. Dec 26 Dear Friends, so glad to get the lovely remembrances many thanks, all are well, and had a...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: Progress Laundry, 422-26 E. Market Street

Courtesy of the Indiana Album, ca. 1911 lantern slide from the collection of Joan Hostetler This week I showcase two lantern slides that I purchased on eBay of the Progress Laundry Company. Lantern slides were...

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