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Members of the Indiana Civic Workers Club prepared Thanksgiving food and supply baskets at the home of Effie Crowe at 2116 Bellefontaine St., in a photo published in the Indianapolis Recorder on Nov. 26, 1960.

Harrison conducted what’s now considered the first “front porch” campaign, in which he delivered short speeches to visiting delegations at his home on Delaware Street and later from a platform created for him in University Park.

In this photo, taken Oct. 9, 1944, workers are packaging October Ale at the company’s facility at 316 Agnes St., which is now University Boulevard.

Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut participated on Sept. 24, 1983, in a march for Operation Big Vote, a coalition of labor and social groups created to increase voter registration among minority groups.

The renown artist built a home and studio in Brown County called the House of the Singing Winds and would often paint in the prairies and woods near his home.

The first Indianapolis Fall Carnival took place Oct. 9-12, 1900, and included two parades daily, including the Floral Parade on Oct. 10.

The building that once housed The English Hotel and Opera House in the northwest quadrant of Monument Circle was demolished in 1949.

Sculptor Adolph Gustav Wolter, a native of Reutlingen, Germany, immigrated to the United States in 1922 and came to Indiana after the state hired him to carve symbolic relief sculptures for the Indiana State Library’s exterior.

Crowds gathered on the northeast corner of Noblesville’s courthouse square on Nov. 2, 1942, during activities to support World War II.

Three buildings in this 1910 photo were later razed, but the two on the far right still stand and are now home to The Capital Grille.