Historic Photos of Indiana
This is the land of Hoosiers. Of George Rogers Clark’s conquest at Vincennes, a key victory for the Revolution. Of covered bridges. A fledgling automobile industry. Notre Dame. The National Road and the Lincoln Highway and Carl Fisher. Cole Porter. The Milwaukee Steamer and the Rumely Oil Pull Tractor. Riverboats on the Wabash and the Ohio. The Wabash and Erie Canal. Interurbans. James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade. Small towns and big cities. Street Fair Days in Peru. The first state capitol at Corydon. Steel in Gary. Evansville’s Municipal Market. Airmail by balloon. Union Station in Indianapolis and the Indy 500. Dunes along the Lake Michigan coast. Gandy dancers, circus parades, roller-skate basketball. Of sugar beets, sugar maples, and soybeans.
This is Historic Photos of Indiana, filled with nearly 200 photographs reproduced in vivid black-and-white, with captions and introductions, showing the reader the places, people, and events that helped shape the lore and history of the Hoosier State.
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Book details
- Text by
- Scott M. Bushnell
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 206
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Series
- Historic Photos
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Indiana history · historical photography · Midwest · Indianapolis · early automotive industry · small town America · industrial history · transportation history
- ISBN-13
- 9781596525535
About the author
SCOTT M. BUSHNELL is a writer and former journalist who has authored five books on Indiana and regional history. His recent books include Roanoke: The Renaissance of a Hoosier Village, Remembering Fort Wayne and Hard News, Heartfelt Opinions: The History of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
Bushnell reported and edited for newspapers in New York State and Connecticut and for the Associated Press, then worked in corporate communications for two Fortune 500 companies. He holds degrees from Dutchess Community College and Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, and served as copy editor of History of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1700–2005.
Scott and his wife, Barbara, live in rural northeast Indiana.