indianapolis

[Charley Bassett, Indianapolis Hoosiers, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Watch Burnham, Indianapolis Hoosiers, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Entrance to Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.

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Ex-president Harrison's house, North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, In...

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[Indianapolis carnation, American Carnation Society Exhibition, Detroi...

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House of Representatives, Indiana, 1905, Panoramic Photograph

Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; February 6, 1905.

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Indianapolis, Ind.

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Indianapolis Furniture Factory's Water Boy. Witness, E. N. Clopper. L...

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Putting Bottles into the Annealing Oven. An Indianapolis Glass Works, ...

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Noon Hour Meal at an Indianapolis Packing House, Aug., 1908. Wit., E. ...

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[George Textor, Indianapolis Federal League (baseball)]

A black and white photo of a baseball player. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wagner Flagging Joe Dawson -- Indianapolis

Photo shows Joe Dawson crossing the finish line as the winner of the Indianapolis 500 automobile race. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

American Red Cross Canteen #4, Paris. Personnel, left to right: Grace ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Guerin, ARC. Group title: Personnel, Groups. 8 July 1919 [date received] Used in:... More

[Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. James (Betsy Cushing) Roosevelt, Franklin D. ...

Department of the Navy; Courtesy of U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau. Harold L. Ickes collection. Title devised by Library staff, based on information for similar image at the US Naval History Center, NH968. The nam... More

The threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis

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A black and white photo of a race car, Automobile races, Indianapolis,...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a race car. Farm Security...

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A group of people walking down a street. Office of War Information Pho...

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A group of people crossing a street in the rain, Rainy day, Indianapol...

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A couple of men standing next to each other on a street. Office of War...

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A group of women standing next to each other. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Indianapolis, Indiana. The waiting room of the Greyhound bus terminal ...

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Grandfather and granddaughter visit a yard sale, Indianapolis, Indiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Driveway pavilion, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More

East vestibule, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

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Mural, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

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Fresco, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Con... More

Fresco, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Con... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The skyscraper with the somewhat pointed roof is (as of 2016) the city's tallest building: the 49-story Chase Tower, formerly known as... More

One of several animal-oriented small architectural details incorporate...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Male Herm marble statue (there is also a Female Herm nearby) at the Ol...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Noon hour at a cotton mill, Indianapolis. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 75. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Indianapolis Fruit Venders, Italian Boys, Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 106. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Ten Minute Alibi - theatrical playbill, public domain image

A playbill (program or brochure that is distributed to theater patrons prior to or during a performance that contains information about the play, its cast, and crew, as well as other details such as the theater... More

Benjamin Harrison House, 1230 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, Mar...

Significance: The house is the large, Italianate Victorian home of a successful Indianapolis lawyer and politician who became the twenty-third President of the United States. Survey number: HABS IN-53 Buildin... More

George & Netty Holler House, 324 North Park Avenue, Indianapolis, Mari...

Significance: The house is a typical example of a working-class house of the period in the east side of Indianapolis. Built circa 1863-64, the George and Netty Holler House was a working class residence typical... More

House of the Twin Chimneys, 7607 Allisonville Road, Indianapolis, Mari...

Significance: Built in 1836, this one-story brick house is the oldest known house surviving in Marion County, Indiana. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS IN-3... More

Duesenberg Automobile Company Factory, Building No. 1, 1501 West Washi...

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Duesenberg Automobile Company Factory, Building No. 1, 1501 West Washi...

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Prosser House, 1454 East Tenth Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Significance: Built in 1886 by a plaster contractor, this is a medium-sized house with extensive elaborate plaster decoration. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: ... More

Prosser House, 1454 East Tenth Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Significance: Built in 1886 by a plaster contractor, this is a medium-sized house with extensive elaborate plaster decoration. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: ... More

Dusty, musical notation - Public domain American sheet music

Night Scene, in an Indianapolis Glass Works. Location: Indianapolis, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Joseph White House, 441 South Park, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Survey number: HABS IN-176 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph White House, 441 South Park, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Survey number: HABS IN-176 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Griffith Block (Commercial Building), 36-38 West Washington Street, In...

Significance: Built in 1872 by the heirs of Humphrey Griffith, a leading pioneer businessman, the Griffith Block has housed a variety of retail establishments during its long history. In the late 1800s and ear... More

Griffith Block (Commercial Building), 36-38 West Washington Street, In...

Significance: Built in 1872 by the heirs of Humphrey Griffith, a leading pioneer businessman, the Griffith Block has housed a variety of retail establishments during its long history. In the late 1800s and ear... More

Das Deutsche Haus, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Marion Coun...

Significance: The building is an example of German cultural and architectural influences in the midwest during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Romanesque architectural forms are used on the exterior... More

Das Deutsche Haus, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Marion Coun...

Significance: The building is an example of German cultural and architectural influences in the midwest during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Romanesque architectural forms are used on the exterior... More

Christ Church (Episcopal), North Meridian & East Wabash Streets, India...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS IN-24-3 Building/structure dates: 1857 Initial Construction

Journal Building, 46-48 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Marion County, ...

Significance: The Journal Building was built in 1897 and is the second oldest building on Monument Circle, the focal point of the city plan created in 1821. It is the only surviving nineteenth-century commerci... More

Despa House, 538 Lockerbie Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

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Vandalia Railroad Bridge, Spanning U.S. Route 40, Indianapolis, Marion...

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James A. Allison Mansion, 3200 Coldspring Road, Indianapolis, Marion C...

Significance: Built over a three year period, 1911-1914, this house was constructed of reinforced concrete with an exterior veneer of red brick. The house remains much as it was in 1914 when Indianapolis busin... More

James A. Allison Mansion, 3200 Coldspring Road, Indianapolis, Marion C...

Significance: Built over a three year period, 1911-1914, this house was constructed of reinforced concrete with an exterior veneer of red brick. The house remains much as it was in 1914 when Indianapolis busin... More

Rost Jewelry Company Building, 25 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis,...

Significance: The Rost Jewelry Company had conducted business at this location since 1910 in an 1887 commercial building. In 1947-48 the jewelry company extensively remodeled and enlarged the building into one... More

Indianapolis, Ind.. Cityscape photograph

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Morris-Butler House, 1204 North Park Avenue, Indianapolis, Marion Coun...

Significance: The house is one of a few surviving examples in Indianapolis of a mid-nineteenth century Victorian house, French and Italianate in its architectural details, built for a successful businessman of ... More

Levey Brothers & Company Building, Annex, 21-23 West Maryland Street, ...

Significance: Built in 1900-01, the Levey Brothers & Company Annex was one of several historic buildings in the Indianapolis Wholesale District that represented the printing industry located in that area. Esta... More

Union Station, Jackson Place & Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Marion C...

Significance: The station is an excellent example of the American Romanesque Revival style of architecture strongly influenced by the work of H.H. Richardson. The exterior is unusual in the skillful combining ... More

Union Station, Jackson Place & Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Marion C...

Significance: The station is an excellent example of the American Romanesque Revival style of architecture strongly influenced by the work of H.H. Richardson. The exterior is unusual in the skillful combining ... More

Richard W. Sommers House, 3650 Coldspring Road, Indianapolis, Marion C...

Survey number: HABS IN-73 Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William B. Mumford Printing Company Factory, 17-23 West Pearl Street, ...

Significance: One of the premier printers, stationers, and publishers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Willian B. Burford, built this building in which to operate his printing and stationery ... More

Indiana Central Canal, Indianapolis Division, Parallel to West Street,...

Significance: The Indianapolis Division of the Indiana Central Canal is possibly the oldest remaining man-made structure or facility in Indianapolis-Marion County. The canal is listed on the Indiana State Regi... More

[Jack Glasscock, Indianapolis Hoosiers, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: D. Buchner & Company Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Night Shift A. D. T. Messengers, Indianapolis. 10:00 P.M. Location: I...

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Indianapolis City Hall, 202 North Alabama, Indianapolis, Marion County...

Significance: At the time of its construction, City Hall symbolized the "coming of age" of Indianapolis as a major Midwestern metropolis. Before its construction, city government had been homeless, leasing off... More

Bush Stadium, 1501 West 16th Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Entry and Second Place Recipient 2011 HALS Challenge: Celebrating Cultural Landscapes of Diversity Significance: Bush Stadium contributes to the broad patterns of history in the area of recreation because of it... More

Bush Stadium, 1501 West 16th Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Entry and Second Place Recipient 2011 HALS Challenge: Celebrating Cultural Landscapes of Diversity Significance: Bush Stadium contributes to the broad patterns of history in the area of recreation because of it... More

Knights of Pythias Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

James Whitcomb Riley House, 528 Lockerbie Street, Indianapolis, Marion...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

James Whitcomb Riley House, 528 Lockerbie Street, Indianapolis, Marion...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

James Whitcomb Riley House, 528 Lockerbie Street, Indianapolis, Marion...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century building, Victorian architecture style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

James Whitcomb Riley House, 528 Lockerbie Street, Indianapolis, Marion...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an Italian architectural drawing, design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

122 South Meridian Street (Commercial), Indianapolis, Marion County, I...

Significance: Built in 1866-67, 122 South Meridian Street is one of the original commercial structures erected to house wholesale businesses in Indianapolis' Wholesale District. Established during the Civil Wa... More

House of Crane Building, 124 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Mari...

Significance: Built in 1866-67, the House of Crane Building was one of the original commercial structures erected to house wholesale businesses in Indianapolis' Wholesale District. Established during the Civil... More

House of Crane Building, 124 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Mari...

Significance: Built in 1866-67, the House of Crane Building was one of the original commercial structures erected to house wholesale businesses in Indianapolis' Wholesale District. Established during the Civil... More

J. F. Darmody Company Building (Commercial), 25-27 West Maryland Stree...

Significance: Built in two phases 1904-05 and 1911, following the designs of architect P.C. Rubush and later Rubush & Hunter, the J.F. Darmody Company Building functioned as a confectionery and wholesale outlet... More

J. F. Darmody Company Building (Commercial), 25-27 West Maryland Stree...

Significance: Built in two phases 1904-05 and 1911, following the designs of architect P.C. Rubush and later Rubush & Hunter, the J.F. Darmody Company Building functioned as a confectionery and wholesale outlet... More

[Jack Hayden, Indianapolis Team, baseball card portrait]

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Market House, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Significance: The Market House is representative of market structures built in the heart of many American cities during the 19th century. The Indianapolis City Market was the second of two buildings set aside ... More

Roosevelt Building, 9 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Marion Coun...

Significance: The Roosevelt Building is the work of one of Indianapolis' most famous, prolific and creative architectural firms, Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller. Founded in 1888 as Vonnegut & Bohn and later included ... More

Roosevelt Building, 9 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Marion Coun...

Significance: The Roosevelt Building is the work of one of Indianapolis' most famous, prolific and creative architectural firms, Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller. Founded in 1888 as Vonnegut & Bohn and later included ... More

Indianapolis City Market, 222 East Market Street, Indianapolis, Marion...

Significance: The City Market is an excellent example of a specialized commercial building in an eclectic Italianate style. Designed by Indianapolis architect D.A. Bohlen in 1886, this was the second of two bu... More

Crown Hill Cemetery, Office Building, 3402 Boulevard Place, Indianapol...

Significance: The Office Building is an excellent example of the High Victorian Gothic style of architecture and is in fine condition inside and out. Survey number: HABS IN-56 Building/structure dates: 1885 I... More

Crown Hill Cemetery, Office Building, 3402 Boulevard Place, Indianapol...

Significance: The Office Building is an excellent example of the High Victorian Gothic style of architecture and is in fine condition inside and out. Survey number: HABS IN-56 Building/structure dates: 1885 I... More

A Little "Shaver," Indianapolis Newsboy, 41 inches high. Said he was 6...

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Macy House, 408 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS IN-24-2 Building/structure dates: ca. 1854 Initial Construction

Macy House, 408 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS IN-24-2 Building/structure dates: ca. 1854 Initial Construction

[Charley Carr, Indianapolis Team, baseball card portrait]

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Indiana Theatre, 134 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, Marion Coun...

Significance: The Indiana Theatre is an outstanding example of the Spanish-style architecture in vogue in America during the 1920s. It is particularly noteworthy for its terra-cotta facade and its auditorium d... More

Washington Street Downtown Corridor, Washington Street between Alabama...

Significance: Washington Street is the National Road, or U.S. 40, as it passes through Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. This major commercial artery is home to many important nineteenth and twentieth cent... More

Washington Street Downtown Corridor, Washington Street between Alabama...

Significance: Washington Street is the National Road, or U.S. 40, as it passes through Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. This major commercial artery is home to many important nineteenth and twentieth cent... More

Washington Street Downtown Corridor, Washington Street between Alabama...

Significance: Washington Street is the National Road, or U.S. 40, as it passes through Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. This major commercial artery is home to many important nineteenth and twentieth cent... More

L. S. Ayres & Company Department Store, 1 West Washington Street, Indi...

Significance: The L.S. Ayres & Company Department Store is locally significant in the areas of architecture and commerce. The original 1905 portion of the department store, located at the corner of Washington ... More

L. S. Ayres & Company Department Store, 1 West Washington Street, Indi...

Significance: The L.S. Ayres & Company Department Store is locally significant in the areas of architecture and commerce. The original 1905 portion of the department store, located at the corner of Washington ... More

L. S. Ayres & Company Department Store, 1 West Washington Street, Indi...

Significance: The L.S. Ayres & Company Department Store is locally significant in the areas of architecture and commerce. The original 1905 portion of the department store, located at the corner of Washington ... More

Lockefield Garden Apartments, 900 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Marion...

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Lockefield Garden Apartments, 900 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Marion...

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Lockefield Garden Apartments, 900 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Marion...

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