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Elwood Fire Department located in the rear West side of the City Building, James Merritt, Fire Chief; circa 1935.

Employee representatives of American Sheet and Tin Plate Company; September, 1936.

National Guard unit of Elwood, Indiana

1939 Tomato Festival contestants in bathing suits in front of the elwood swimming pool bathhouse.

Trucks loaded with hampers of tomatoes in the field.

Wendell and Mrs. (Edith Billie Wilk) Willkie on the campaign trail; 1940; (original photo oversize).

Willkie Day at Calloway Park; August 17, 1940.

Willkie Day Parade, downtown Elwood,Indiana.

Willkie Day Parade, downtown Elwood, Indiana.

Willkie Day Parade, downtown Elwood, Indiana; August 17, 1940

Willkie Day Parade and Presidential candidate, Wendell L. Willkie waving from window of Central School; August 17, 1940.

An Elwood, Indiana Marine, Elmer Baugher, was noted in Ripleys Believe It or Not column in the Elwood Call-Leader during World War II.

Mechanics at Dawsons Buick and Pontiac Sales and Service, 317 South Anderson Street; August, 1943; Elwood Call-Leader is at this location at present. Pictured are: Walford Skillet Reynolds, Waldo Robertson, Wilber Collins and Junior Davis.

Main dining room of Mangas Cafeteria; circa 1950; postcard photo.

Organization meeting of the Elwood Camera Club in the basement of the Elwood Carnegie Public Library; May 14, 1951.

Elwood Camera Club at Anderson Shady Side Park; circa 1950.

Cover photo of the January, 1952, issue Panhandle Lines Railroad, Elwood, Indiana; looking North on Anderson Street from South B Street.

Elwood Camera Club; 1950; (original photo oversize).

Citizens Bank, Northeast corner of Anderson and South A Streets; 1952.

Elwood Police Force in front of City Building; 1952.

Elwood Sweet Shoppe, 110 South Anderson Street, owned by Jack and George Mangas;1940.

R.L.Leeson home, 502 South Anderson Street, decorated for Halloween.

Opal Kaiser, manager of the Elwood License Branch, displays new 1963 plates.

Diana Shops, West side of Anderson street between South A and South B Streets.

Robert F. Kennedy stops in Elwood while on the campaign trail;April 28, 1968.

Continental Can Corp.,Minster Press; Joy Kurtz, operator.

Continental Can Corp., Dan Brunson, packer in the shipping department.

Continental Can Corp., stacks of cans on skids; shipping forman, Charles Knauer;1970s.

Continental Can Corp., shipping department in warehouse.

Continental Can Corp., Robert Drake, machine operator.

Continental Can Corp., night watchmen, Claude Little and Harvey Heflin;1955

Continental Can Company; Northeast corner of 9th and North D Streets; circa 1940.

Continental Can Corp., Jim McElfresh, 1946 president of Local 2882 of United Steelworkers Union.

Elwood Electric Street Railway Company Power and Light Station and car barn before the explosion on November 29 1893 at 4:20 PM.

Wiley Dry Goods, a department store on the Southwest corner of Main and Anderson Streets; circa 1800s.

Pennsylvania Railroad Depot on Eastside of 16th Street between South A and South B Streets.

Elwood U.S. Post Office under construction, interior view; February 1, 1913.

G.I. Sellers & Sons plant in the background during 1913 flood.

Elwood street car;

Evans Drug Store, Southwest corner of 16th and Main Streets; circa 1936; photo shows Will Evans on left and Bill Thumma on right.

Elwood office of Indiana and Michigan Power Company, 124-126 North Anderson Street(Flatiron Building); May 12, 1931.

Key to the City of Elwood float in 1939 Tomato Festival Parade.

1939 Tomato Festival Parade looking Northeast toward the bank on the corner of South A and Anderson Streets.

1939 Tomato Festival Queen and her Court in front of the Elwood swimming pool bathhouse.

Tomatoes fresh from the fields are washed at Virgil Rays factory in Hobbs, Indiana; 1939.

Rays canning in Hobbs, Indiana.

Wendell L. Willkie chatting with Elwood citizens at the Elwood City Building in 1940.

Nurse Mary Snider,R.N.

Corner entrance of Mangas Cafeteria located on the Northwest corner of Main and Anderson Streets.

Opening day of the new Indiana Bell Telephone Building, 1527 North A Street; 1953.