Wreckage of new library building, Indianapolis (LOC)

    Bain News Service,, publisher.

    Wreckage of new library building, Indianapolis

    [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

    1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

    Notes:
     Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
    Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

    Subjects:
     Indianapolis

    Format: Glass negatives.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09159

    Call Number: LC-B2- 2192-8

    Comments and faves

    1. billkules (59 months ago | reply)

      Makes me wonder what happened...

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      cordial kitten and RoundHereFam added this photo to their favorites.

    3. WxMom (58 months ago | reply)

      I was thinking the same thing...

    4. jody9 (58 months ago | reply)

      Had to have been a tornado that caused it.

    5. swanq (58 months ago | reply)

      query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DE 0D7133CE633A...
      suggests it was dynamite.

      Albert von Spreckelsen, a contractor who employed non-union labor, testified that on October 25, 1909, several buildings in Indianapolis associated with him suffered explosions. The public library was one of them. Another is shown at www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/216 3453880/ which has more about the ironworkers' "dynamite campaign" in a comment.

    6. ~Diablo~ (57 months ago | reply)

      Fascinating history - thanks for that link swang.

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      ~Diablo~ and Günter Waibel added this photo to their favorites.

    8. krikketgirl (56 months ago | reply)

      This was the Hawthorne Branch of the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, a Carnegie-funded library. It was at Mount and Ohio Streets in Indianapolis. The library opened in 1911 and closed in 1955. This information per "A Live Thing in the Whole Town: The history of the Indianapolis-Marion County Publi Library 1873-1990," by Lawrence J. Downey.

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      David Ellison, k8southern, and icka added this photo to their favorites.

    10. Ted l'Arbitre (50 months ago | reply)

      So Old

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      s_h_i_r_o_u_t_o and library_mistress added this photo to their favorites.

    12. Kris Arnold Photo (47 months ago | reply)

      Hello, I represent NUVO Newsweekly in indianapolis. We have a flickr group for photos of indianapolis. It would be great if you could join our group and add this photo to our pool

      Great Image, I would like to invite you to join the NUVO.net flickr pool and submit this image to it.

      www.flickr.com/groups/nuvo/

    13. The Library of Congress (47 months ago | reply)

      Hi cangeceiro,

      We received your request to have a Library of Congress photo added to your group: NUVO.net.

      Please click on the "Invite this photo to..." link below the comment box, and we'd be glad to accept it.

    14. Kris Arnold Photo (47 months ago | reply)

      Thanks very much. I am definatly enjoying all the old photos you guys have been posting here at flickr

    15. BigBean (46 months ago | reply)

      This photo is being discussed in one of the projects in the Flickr Commons group, and we would love to have this added to the group pool!

    16. Rob Ketcherside (39 months ago | reply)

      Now:

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      bkallee@sbcglobal.net and Hiring Librarians added this photo to their favorites.

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