Tag: Indiana State Fair

At Your Leisure: All’s Fair

Posted by Jeff Kamm | Aug 21, 2015 | At Your Leisure | 0 |

Sunday Ad’s: Hook’s for Drugs

by Jeff Kamm | Oct 2, 2016 | Sunday Ads | 0 |

Business: Hook’s Drugs Date of Ad: July 29, 1906 Location: Various Locations, Originally Prospect...

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A Bathing Revolution at the Indiana State Fair

by Stephen J. Taylor | Aug 17, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 1 |

The Locomotive, 1853. (Photo Stephen J. Taylor from the collections of the Indiana State Library.)...

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Indianapolis Then and Now: Better Babies Building and Hook’s Drug Store Museum, Indiana State Fairgrounds

by Joan Hostetler | Aug 7, 2014 | Then & Now | 2 |

Better Babies Building during the Indiana State Fair, 1926. (Courtesy of the Indiana Historical...

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Indianapolis Then and Now: Indiana State Fair, 1202 E. 38th Street

by Joan Hostetler | Jul 31, 2014 | Then & Now | 1 |

Among a group of old photographs found in the attic of an Indianapolis home were these three faded...

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Penny Post: The Murat Temple from the State Fairgrounds

by Ashley Haynes | Apr 16, 2014 | Penny Post | 0 |

Postmarked: Indianapolis, IND. SEP 6, 1951 4:30 PM Message: Hi Folks: – Having a fine time...

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Sunday Adverts: Franklin Mutual Life Insurance Company

by Jessica Ballard-Barnett | May 26, 2013 | Sunday Ads | 4 |

The Franklin Fire Insurance Company, featured in this September 1874 ad, was chartered in 1851 in...

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Then & Now: Better Babies Building and Hook’s Drug Store Museum, Indiana State Fairgrounds

by Joan Hostetler | Aug 9, 2012 | Then & Now | 1 |

Had you visited the Indiana State Fair between 1920 and 1932, not only would you have seen the...

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