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People: Groups (Many Identified)
Alda and George Honig
Long-time Evansville residents and prominent in the arts; c. 1950 (Honig 143)
Baronowsky Family
Edward, wife Mary (Ramp), and children; c. 1902 (Baronowsky 1)
Camp Breckinridge
Evansville business and civic leaders visiting the camp on June 15, 1944 (Knecht 1853)
Camp Shelby
Standing outside, l-r: John McCormick, Rev. Denbo, Mrs. Robert Stilwell, Mrs. A. G. White, Guthrie May, Karl Knecht, and Col. Robert Stilwell; photo dated April 6, 1941 (Knecht 922)
Camp Shelby
Major General Robert Tyndall (center), Commander of the 38th Division, with Colonel Louis L. Roberts (left), Commander of the 139th Field Artillery, and Karl Kae Knecht (right), Evansville Courier cartoonist, at Camp Shelby; photo dated April 6, 1941 (Knecht 914)
Camp Shelby
Indiana soldiers, including men from Evansville, arriving at the camp on April 6, 1941 (Knecht 926)
Camp Shelby
Karl Kae Knecht (center, in bowtie), Courier photographer and reporter, with draftees, including Guthrie May of Evansville (to right of Knecht); photo dated April 6, 1941 (Knecht 919)
Card Players
Game held at the WPA Community Center; photo dated 1938 (Knecht 517)
Charity Club
Club members at camp on the grounds of the salt pool; early 1900s (Cluthe 85)
Children in Costume
Probably students on steps of school; the girl standing at lower left is identified as Alia Shrode; dated "1908 or so" (Knecht 4783)
Civil War Veterans
Photographed on the steps of the Coliseum in 1931 (Knecht 455)
Civil War Veterans
Standing in front of monument at Gibson County Courthouse; c. 1910 (Forthoffer 1)
Clifford Shopbell & Co.
Clifford Shopbell (in rear, at right) and his staff of architects and engineers; Ed Thole is at typewriter, and Joe Berridge is at his left; photo dated 1919 (Knecht 576)
Cluthe, Dr. Charles and Hulda (Illing)
Wedding day, 1894 (Cluthe 43)
Cluthe, Dr. William, Sr., and Magdalene (Koelsch)
Photo taken at Douglas Studio in Evansville; late 1800s (Cluthe 47)
Courier Editorial Staff
Photo dated 1921 (Knecht 381)
Crescent Furniture Company
Company employees; photo dated April 12, 1904 (Ahles 2)
Crescent Furniture Company
Office staff; man in back room is Harry Henry Schu, and his son Elmer Clem Schu is seated at right; photo dated October 6, 1909 (Ahles 5)
Dr. Ira Faith and Family
C. 1925 (Faith 1)
Edd Roush Family
Professional baseball player Edd Roush with his wife Essie and daughter Mary (holding bat) at their home in Oakland City, Indiana; photo dated 1920 (Knecht 2987)
Election Day 1975
Greg Server (left) and David Koehler, Sr., at Republican Headquarters (Courier 928)
Equestrian Group
Probably photographed at Dade (Ellis) Park, c. 1940. Standing (l-r) are Ethel Louise Wells, Dr. Jim Bryan, Helen Hatcher, Helen Schultz, Al Koch, Richard Gumberts, Mary Louise Puster, Troy Ashby, and Reginald Dryer; the women on horseback are Betty Botts, Viola Kramer, and Mrs. Troy Ashby (Knecht 1396)
Evansville Police Officers
(Men unidentified); c. 1940s (Payne 43)
Ewing Lewis and Soldiers
Evansville Courier employee (1914-1918) who served as the newspaper's war correspondent to Mexico (Lewis is probably the center man in the back row); photo dated 1916 (Knecht 556)
Fall Festival
Hopalong Cassidy crowning Doris Jean Brown queen of the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival on October 17, 1956 (Miscellaneous 37)
Fendrich Cigar Company Employees
C. 1940s (Schindler 2)
Fishing Party
Diamond Island; Ernest Andel (back row, third from left) is the only identified man; c. 1905 (Buckwinkel 1)
Gardeners
Women tending a community war garden during World War I (Knecht 1957)
Golden Raintree Festival
Mary Emily Fauntleroy (seated) and New Harmony High School students participating in festival: (l-r) Doris Kemmerling, Paul Blackford, Madge Hall, Gerald Gluver, Lilwyn Lafeitte, Robert Butler, Lois Englebright, Paul Truman Johnson, Mary Jane Hancock, and Billy Morris; photo dated 1941 (Knecht 3972)
Golfers
Last name of woman at far left is Wells; second from right is (Corinne?) Bitterman; others unidentified; photo dated 1936 and possible taken at Clearcrest Country Club (Knecht 492)
Golfers
Helfrich Field; players are identified as Merritt DeJong, Bill Loughlin, Alex Ritchie, and John Fendrich; 1920s (Meyer-Schlamp 153)
Helfrich Golf Course Caddies
Photo dated June 8, 1935; two of the boys are Clarence and Claude Wargel (gift of Virginia Wargel London, 2009)
Horse Shoers' Union
Local 110; last name of men: Mitchel, Downs, Buckwinkel, Keck, Howe, Kroening, Dewig, Kroener, Tod, Becker, Crowley, Kautzman, Martz, Hegland, Reinheart, Liniger, and Fiest; photo taken on Labor Day, 1907 (Buckwinkel 5)
Industrial Clipper Race
Photo dated 1930s (Knecht 3595)
John Christian Kolb and Clara Schneider
Photo dated 1913 (Center City 49)
Manson Gilbert and Evelyn McNeely
Appearing in local show; both were the children of Evansville publishers, and Gilbert later became a prominent architect; photo dated 1917 (Knecht 595)
Mayors of Evansville
At one time, each of these men served as mayor: (l-r) Charles Covert, John Boehne, Sr., William Elmendorf, Herbert Males, Frank Griese, William Dress, and Manson Reichert; c. late 1940s (Koenemann 11)
Mercantile Bank Customers
Opening of bank at Second and Sycamore Sts.; some of the men identified are Ed Moskowitz, Joseph Iglehart, and Mark Ingle; c. 1915-1920 (Knecht 562)
Miss Evansville Pageant
Zelia Heiser, contestant, surrounded by Tau Kappa Epsilon pledges Don McNair (left) and Dan Neufelder (right), as she prepares for pageant; photo dated 1958 (Knecht 946)
Models
Young women modeling clothes for The Boston Store in Evansville; c. 1920 (Walden-Risley Collection)
Orphans
Photo taken on the steps of a "local orphanage" in 1911 (Knecht 1866)
Peggy Mitchell and Clancy the Cop
On the television set at WEHT station; 1950s (Mitchell 5)
Police Officers
C. 1930s (Knecht 4418)
Postal Carriers
(L) Ernest Schellhase and (r) Emil Wiggers; photo dated 1935 (Knecht 3992)
President and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
En route to the dedication of the George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, IN, on June 14, 1936 (Knecht 4878)
Primary Day 1976
Robert D. Orr (left) and Mayor Russell G. Lloyd, Sr. (Courier 956)
Primary Day 1976
Indiana Senator Vance Hartke greeting voters at the polls (Courier 952)
Red Cross Volunteers
Sewing clothing in building on Main Street during World War I (Knecht 569)
Red Cross Volunteers
Collecting scrap during World War I (Knecht 573)
Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Darby
Noted Presbyterian minister and church workers; residents of Newburgh; c. 1920 (Knecht 2540)
Sabel Family
Possibly at Dawson Springs, KY; some members identified are Walter and Dorothy Sabel (top), Harry Sabel, Anna Sabel, and Gertrude Sabel; c. 1905 (Sabel 2)
School Children
Students leaving for their first day of school; (l-r) Walter Dikers, Jeanette Spencer, Eva Sun, and Ivan Shelby Sun; photo dated September 1920 (Knecht 4600)
Schuetze Family
Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Schuetze with their children Frieda, Helen, and Carl; c. 1916 (Schuetze 1)
Servel-Arkla Officials
Sale of Servel's air conditioning division to Arkla in September 1957; from left are Louis Ruthenburg, Duncan Menzies, John Wall, J. C. Hamilton, E. N. Henderson, and D. W. Weier (Knecht 776)
Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company
Office staff; c. 1912 (Center City 42)
Sterling Products Company
"Pipe and carpenter gangs"; photo dated May 20, 1933 (Buckwinkel 6)
Stofleth Wedding Party
Seated: Sylvester Stofleth, groom, and Mary Schaefer, bride; standing: Andrew Brenner, best man, and Elizabeth Schaefer, bridesmaid; 1921 (Schaefer 4)
Streetcar Conductors
Evansville & Southern Indiana Traction Co. employees; c. early 1900s (Kallenbach 2)
Students
Possibly entrants in an Industrial Arts competition (some boys appear to be holding saws and other implements); c. 1920 (Walden 175)
Telephone Operators
Early 1900s (Knecht 425)
WEHT News Reporters
Left to right: Tim Spencer, Hal Wolford, Dan Melloy, and Henry Bishop; photo dated 1966 (Wolford 6)
William and Mary (Jones) Bullock
C. 1890s (McGehee 9)
William Howard Taft and Benjamin Bosse
Former U. S. President William Howard Taft (tall man at center, second row), with Mayor Benjamin Bosse (far right), at Red Cross Canteen in spring of 1918 (Knecht 233)
William McAdoo with Evansville Leaders
McAdoo (third from left, front row) was Secretary of the Treasury (1913-1918) and candidate for President in 1920 and 1924; at his left is Evansville Mayor William L. Elmendorf; other indentified men are Clarence Leich, Dick Waller, Henry Feneman, James T. Walker, and Gilbert Bosse; c. 1924 (Knecht 2117)
Women and Girls
Caption on back of photo: "A Picnic 1917" (Knecht 1422)
World War I Recruits
Capt. Wheeler (far right) training new recruits; photo dated 1917 (Knecht 1395)
World War I Soldiers
Drilling next to the Post Office near Sycamore and NW Second Sts.; photo dated August 1917 (Knecht 1919)
World War I Soldiers
Drilling across from Central High School; photo dated 1917 (Knecht 1924)
World War I Soldiers
Vendor serves ice cream to unidentified recruits; c. 1917 (Knecht 1935)
WPA Work Training Center
At work in the Sewing Room; photo dated 1935 (Knecht 751)
WPA Workshop
Participants in a "recreational program" at the WPA Community Center; c. 1936 (Knecht 521)
WTVW Staff
Bill Hill, program director (only identified person in photo); photo dated 1958 (Wolford 5)
YMCA Basketball Team
Team poses at the old YMCA at Fourth and Sycamore streets. Some of the identified boys are Dan Branson, Walter McCoy, Elmer McGrew, Howard Cain, Henry Schnalmack, Bert Tisserand, Carl Reitz, A. Lillicrap, J. Mitchell, George Hoelscher, and Olen and Vic Varner; photo dated 1905 (Bix Branson Collection)
Young Women
Unidentified group seated on the grounds of Bosse Stadium (in background); photo dated 1916 (Knecht 4093)
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