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William H. Bass Photo Company, Indianapolis, Indiana |
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1923 Hupmobile, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1924 - ia-0154-0276
Photo of an automobile identified on the back as a 1923 Hupmobile. It is parked outside a building with the car name and logo on the windows. A note on back states that the dealership was on North Meridian Street, and that the car cost $12,000. An identical photograph at the Indiana Historical Society is identified as the Wilbur Johnson Company and dated 16 June 1924. According to the 1924 Indianapolis City Directory the Wilbur Johnson Compa...
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1932 Indianapolis Home Show Model Home, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 - ia-0001-c008-0005
Printed on the back is advertisitng about the W. H. Bass Photo Company, commercial photographers.
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1940-1941 Arsenal Technical High School varsity football team, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1941 - ia-0054-0002
The concrete bleachers behind the students are in the Arsenal Technical High School Football Stadium built as a Works Progress Administration project in 1939. The stadium was later named the Howard L. Longshore Stadium and the Wally Potter Football Field. Longshore, who later became the school's principal, is depicted here during his first year teaching and coaching at the school. The team is identified on page 85 of the 1941 Arsenal Cannon y...
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Actor Clint Walker in 500 Festival parade, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1961 - ia-0456-0030
Television cowboy Clint Walker, who played Cheyenne Bodie in the western series "Cheyenne," waves from the back of an Indy 500 Festival convertible. He wears a cowboy hat, a fringed frontier buckskin leather shirt, and a cartridge belt. He participated in the Indy 500 parade on May 27, 1961, the golden anniversary year of the race. Spectators line the street. The Bass Photo number is 128738-1. The photo was taken in the Indiana World War Memorial...
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Actor George Montgomery with fans, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1961 - ia-0456-0029
Admirers greet celebrity George Montgomery (1916-2000) who waves from a convertible at the crowd near Obelisk Square. Children hand him portraits to autograph and a man takes a photograph with a camera. The view looks southwest from East North Street toward a building with a "Hotel English" sign. Montgomery, along with his wife Dinah Shore, were in Indianapolis for Indianapolis 500 race festivities in May 1961 and he stayed to make personal appea...
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Aerial photo of Indianapolis Speedway, Speedway, Indiana, 1946 - ia-0154-0188
A researcher who has studied the Indianapolis Sppeway grounds prior to 1956 sent feedback to the Indiana Album that stated "It must have been taken late afternoon and shows the cleanup after four years of WWII disuse. The north chute car bridge is taken down but the tunnel has not been dug.The very surprising view shows the two car garages completely demolished."
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Aerial photo of Washington Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1931 - ia-0154-0196
Aerial photo labeled "Wash. Park." Washington Park was a minor league park used by the Indianapolis Indians and the Indianapolis ABCs of the Negro Baseball League.
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African-American man with horse at Lilly Biological Laboratories, Greenfield, Indiana, 1918 - ia-0154-0218
An African-American man holds the reins of a horse at the Lilly Biological Laboratories west of Greenfield. They pose in front of a tower with a red tile roof and a sign for "Lilly." A handwritten note on the back reads "Eli Lilly, Greenfield." Image number 63615 indicates that this was photographed in 1918. According to the lab's National Register of Historic Places nomination, architect Robert Frost Daggett designed the Spanish Revival-style...
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Aftermath of October 31, 1963 gas explosion at Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1963 - ia-0456-0037
Image of the Coliseum after a propane tank leak and explosion during the finale of the Holiday on Ice ice skating performance on Halloween night. The explosion killed 74 and injured more than 400 people. Stacks of chairs, debris, and trailors are on the melting ice.
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Aftermath of October 31, 1963 gas explosion at Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1963 - ia-0456-0038
Men shovel debris near the bleachers following an explosion at the Holiday on Ice performance. On the right, a stuffed dog remains on the edge of broken concrete.
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Aftermath of October 31, 1963 gas explosion at Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1963 - ia-0456-0039
Stacks of chairs and debris near the bleachers following an explosion during the Holiday on Ice performance.
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Aftermath of October 31, 1963 gas explosion at Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1963 - ia-0456-0040
A lighting truss is lowered from the ceiling over the melting ice following the explosion at the Holiday on Ice show. [See also images ia-0456-0037 through ia-0456-0039].
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Art Linkletter and others on aircraft stairs, Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1960 - ia-0456-0031
Radio and television personality Art Linkletter (right) and an unknown man pose with a stewardess on the steps of an American Airlines airplane. The Bass Photo number is 125960-2. [See also image ia-0456-0032 for another view of Linkletter taken at the same time.]
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