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Title |
Friends at Knickerbacker Lodge, Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1927 |
Catalog Number |
ia-0326-c001-0001 |
Description |
"Memories of the Art Institute girls and Knickerbocker [sic Knickerbacker] Lodge, 1541 Central Ave, Indianapolis, Indiana." Four of the snapshots depict women in front of the brick Knickerbocker [Knickerbacker] Lodge, a former girls' school operated by the Episcopal Church of Indiana as a low-cost boarding house for young women of any denomination who are employed or are students. In 1926 rates were $6.50 to $8 per week. Captions: 1. Virginia Poe, Married Joe Smith Nov. 15, 1928, Kentucky (Real Silk Girl) 2. Vesta, Virginia [Poe], Helen G., Ruth [Ratliff] 3. "We wanted to dress up, the sun was too bright (Round Robins) 4. Ruth Ratliff, later Mrs. Farell [Ruth E. Ratliff, b. 1897, married Edward M. Farrell] 5. Portrait of man: "Just a 'sawyer,' Wendell Hubble" [William Wendell Hubble, 1904-1979, a sawsmith for E. C. Atkins and Company ] |
Provenance |
From a photograph album compiled by Randolph County native Mildred Ruth (Rickert) Lowell (1906-1988). She documented her friends at John Herron Art Institute in 1927; Indiana University, where she graduated with a AB in Fine Arts in 1928; and at her first teaching job in Lafayette. She continued teaching after she married Harvey Matthew Lowell in Michigan in 1932 and went on to receive a MA in Art Education from the University of Michigan in 1945. |
Geographic Location |
1541 Central Avenue, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States |
Subjects |
Apartment houses Friendship Young adults Women Indianapolis (Ind.) Marion County (Ind.) |
Date of Original |
1927, circa |
Year Range Begin |
1927 |
Year Range End |
1928 |
Process |
Photographic prints |
Format |
Snapshots |
Type |
still image |
Collection Name |
Joan Gray Collection / Mildred Ruth (Rickert) Lowell Album |
Copyright |
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Rights |
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Terms of Use |
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Catalog date |
2023-07-28 |