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Elwood Fire Department No. 1, organized 1892, located at 1411 Main Street.

Business oriented Christmas card.

Elwood Redmens Lodge roller polo team; 1900-1901; (original photo oversize).

Looking East on Main Street from 16th Street; Inter-Urban Traction Station; circa 1912; site of Elwood Public Library as of January 1997.

Looking west on North A Street; Flatiron Building at the end of North A Street on Anderson Street.

Inter-Urban Traction Station; circa 1902; present site of Elwood Public Library.

Looing North on Anderson Street from South B Street; circa 1910.

Inter-Urban Traction Station on Northeast corner of 16th and Main Streets; present site of Elwood Public Library.

Dr. Julia Sigfried; circa 1908; her office located at 1531 Main Street, upstairs, across from the City Building; present site of City Building parking lot.

South Anderson Street decorated for Tin Plate Day; September 13, 1912.

Digging basement foundation Elwood U.S. Post Office; June 1, 1912.

Elwood U.S.Post Office under construction, August 1, 1912; Thomas W. Cissel, from Washington D.C., contractor and builder.

Laying foundation of Elwood U.S. Post Office; July 1, 1912.

Elwood U.S. Post Office nearing completion; November 1,1912.

Elwood U.S. Post Office completed; July 1, 1913.

Elwood U.S. Post Office; April 19, 1915.

John Markley in his grocery store on South J Street near Jenkens Avenue, with his sister Barbara Markley and his dog, Gyp; the store operated from 1922-1940.

American Sheet and Tin Plate Company.

1st Baptist Church, 420 South Anderson Street; circa 1915.

1st Methodist Episcopal Church, Northeast corner of North A and Anderson Streets; circa 1900.

Schlosser Bros. Creamery of Frankfort, Indiana showing Elwood routes on the side of the wagon.

Harmony Christian Church at Leisure, Indiana; circa 1936.

Aerial photo of Elwood, Indiana; circa 1937; Don Orbaugh, pilot.

G.I. Sellers & Sons factory at 217 North 13th Street; August, 1935. The display room south of the boiler plant had not yet been built.

1939 Tomato Festival Parade of Seven-Up bottles in front of Leesons Department Store.

1939 Tomato Festival Parade; corner of South A and Anderson Streets; looking Northeast.

Trucks lined up on the street awaiting unloading at Fraziers north plant in the 600 block of North 12th Street.

Lining up to unload at Fraziers north plant; 1939

Conveyer of cans for canning tomatoes.

Women workers cutting tomatoes for canning.

Cooking tomatoes at Fraziers south plant.

Cooking catsup at Fraziers north plant.

Making adjustments on catsup bottling machine; note the cigarette in workers mouth.

Another view of catsup bottling machine.

Loading cans of tomatoes into racks.

Stacks of canned tomato products reach ceiling height.

Trucks at Continental Can Corporation loading dock, 900 North D Street, are recieving boxed tomato products; 1939.

Looking North on Anderson Street from Main Street; January, 1949.

Northeast corner of Main and Anderson Streets; January, 1949.

Mercy Hospital; circa 1940; (from photo postcard folder).

Linwood School; January, 1928; Carrie House, teacher. Elwood Public Schools.

Carl Stieglits grocery and gas station located on State Road 28 on west side of Elwood,Indiana; circa 1940.

Elwood Public Library where Wendell L. Willkies mother was the librarian before she was married; circa 1940; (notice the original steps).

Willkie day; August 17, 1940.

Wendell L. Willkie in convertible during Willkie Day Parade; August 17, 1940.

Linwood School; February 10, 1029; Carrie House, teacher. Elwood Public Schools.

Looking North on Anderson Steet from South B Street; circa 1900

Looking North on Anderson Street from South B Street; circa 1900

Interior of 1st National Bank on northwest corner of Main and Anderson Streets.

F. M. Hunter Post Office and General Store, built around 1860 in Quincy---now Elwood.