Indianapolis—The Indiana Historical Society’s (IHS’s) newest exhibit celebrates one of Indiana’s favorite pastimes—basketball. The six-week exhibit, The Hoosier Hardwood Photo Project: A Journey to Indiana’s Historic High School Gyms, officially opens on Saturday, Oct. 1. The goal of the project, featuring photographs by Michael E. Keating and Chris Smith, is to document some of the […]
The IHS library is fortunate to hold a rich variety of materials representing schools across the state. From 19th-century primers to20th-century yearbooks, elementary schools to universities, extracurricular activities to commencement exercises, we have it covered! For this month’s blog, I am pleased to share a domestic science cook book published by the South Bend Board […]
One of the services that the Local History Services Department offers is on-demand workshops. We work with local organizations to figure out which of our workshops they might want and how we can tweak the workshops to fit their needs. When I work with the local organizer to plan a workshop, I ask about the […]
Recently, we were contacted by a patron who wanted to know about items in our collection related to Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, and whether we would be interested in putting together an exhibit about it. We thought that was a great idea, so I got to work researching Shortridge and looking through our collection. […]
Amos E. Kunderd, a plant breeder from Goshen, Indiana, developed a fascination with flowers at an early age. Over time, he studied hybridization, raised seedlings of his own and originated stunning new varieties of gladioli. After introducing the first Ruffled Gladiolus (Kunderdii Glory) in 1908, his business boomed. By the time this catalog was published, […]
August is one of my favorite months! Why? The Indiana State Fair! My daughter and I have gone to the fairgrounds every year since she was 18 months old; it has become our tradition. We love it the food, the animals, the rides we enjoy every part. Since the Indiana State Fair is my favorite […]
Part of my job the best part really involves looking for collections images to share on Twitter and Instagram. Sometimes these images relate to what is going on in the world or the news. Sometimes they relate a piece of on-this-day history. But sometimes they reflect my mood that day and are spontaneous. I search […]
Indianapolis—This Bicentennial year, the Indiana Historical Society’s (IHS’s) Indiana Bicentennial Train will be available to a statewide audience of Hoosiers. For the second-straight year, the Bicentennial Train will serve as an attraction at the Indiana State Fair. IHS invites fairgoers to hop aboard daily (Aug. 5-21), between the hours of 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. […]
Indianapolis—It is the end of an era at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. Saturday, Aug. 6, marks the closing of the Indiana Historical Society’s (IHS’s) fashionable exhibit, You Are There: That Ayres Look. For more than a year, the exhibit has transported guests back in time through the iconic history of L.S. […]
This week the Central Canal played host to Pokemon hunters from all walks of life. People lined the sidewalks under bridges and visited us, a PokeStop, for perhaps the first time. Let me briefly explain the game for some non-PokemonGo players. The basics: download the PokemonGo app to your smartphone; create your avatar; walk around […]
