Sunday Adverts: The Postcard From Nowhere
A “Postcard from Nowhere,” side one: found in Indianapolis Marion County Public...
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Sunday Adverts: Black Friday 100 Years Ago
Do you think “Black Friday” shopping fervor is a recent invention? Think Again! While...
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Sunday Adverts: The Nose Knows
The Nose That Knows Kingan’s Meats! If you enjoy stories of a bygone time, there’s...
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Sunday Adverts: Hoosier Coal & Oil Co.
Hoosier Coal & Oil, founded in 1917, used the above-pictured telephone index as an...
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Sunday Ads: Echoes in Time, Indy Brand Names
It’s hackneyed but true: “history repeats itself.” And when you’re plugged...
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Sunday Ad: Barney’s Jewelers, Lincoln Hotel
If you missed Libby’s fascinating article of yesterday, take a look at the map that shows...
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Sunday Ads: Landscape Architect
One of the wonderful surprises of old city directories is finding adverts in the margins and below...
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Sunday Ads: Mid-Century Modern Office
The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? This advert for used office furniture...
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Sunday Adverts: Cafes of Mass Ave
Who doesn’t miss this once prolific form of advertising? It seems at one time the Around the...
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Sunday Ads: American Detective Agency
Tomorrow, we welcome October to our 2012 calendar and October is known in some circles as Family...
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Sunday Ads: Herron-Morton Place Home Tour
In honor of today’s Herron-Morton Place Home Tour, check out these two flyer advertisements...
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Sunday Adverts: Want to Play Dress Up?
We thank today’s sponsor, Margie’s Costumes on Illinois–if you need a costume,...
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Sunday Adverts: What we did before google maps
Hard to fathom today that there was a time before google maps, when we couldn’t pull up a...
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Sunday Adverts: Patent This!
From the 1890 City Directory, this quintessentially Victorian era drawing to denote, presumably,...
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Sunday Ads: Unexpected Honeybees
From the same booklet as yesterday’s map, the Dreher’s Simplex Street and House...
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Sunday Adverts: Hoosier Kitchens, Cabinets, and Refrigerators in 1919
I think most of us have heard of the Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet, right? (There is one on display at...
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Sunday Adverts: Pluto Water
Since Thomas Taggart was already fresh on my mind, his former hotel in French Lick seemed like...
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