Photo Album -- Lowell, Indiana -- Events

Cobe Cup Race, 1909 (Click here to see thumbnails)

Newspaper advertisement
Map of the race route
The Chicago Automobile Club Grand Stand
Northeast corner entering Crown Point on South St.
Northwest corner with shorp turn into South St.
Another view of the northwest corner
"S" curve near Cedar Lake
Double reverse curve
Jim Ray's corner at Cedar Lake
at Ray's Resort (from the Peterson collection)
at Ray's Resort (from the Peterson collection)
Turn at the cemetery, Lowell IN
First turn in Lowell
Southwest corner entering Lowell business district at Commercial Ave.
Lowell Public Square on East Commercial Ave.
photo from the Peterson collection
photo from the Peterson collection
Hotel Binyon in Cedar Lake
Louis Stang
Driver Chevrolet in winning car


Documents

Marriage License of Samuel R. Baughman and Chlor A. Green, 1861
Marriage License of Jay D. Baughman and Mary E. Peach, 1864
Marriage License of Wilson S. Baughman and Sarah Jane Corkings (Calkins), 1869
Marriage License of John D. Childers and Lizzie E. Trump,1880
Marriage License of Charles J. Corkins and Eliza J. Cornell, 1869
Marriage License of Daniel G. Corkins and Mary G. Crane, 1875
Marriage License of Fred C. Schmidt and Caroline Jergens
Joshua P. Spalding's Postmaster Certificate, 1869
Murray/Spalding Wedding Announcement, 1934


Fires / Fire Department

1898 Lowell Fire (Click here to see thumbnails)
The next morning
The next day, looking east down Commercial St. from Wall St.
Fireman's Parade, Lowell, Indiana


Lowell Sidewalk Sale

1962
1962

1952 Lowell Centennial Pictures (Click here to see thumbnails)

1952 Lowell Centennial emblem
St. Edwards processional to the Spectacle Grounds, Archie Buckley in the foreground
Church leaders
St. Edwards celebration at the Spectacle Grounds
Knights of Columbus
Knights of Columbus
American Legion Post 101
Irene Kenney and Geraldine Kenney (Davis)
Five ladies
Getting a beard trim
Roy Greer and Angie Matury
Ralph (Sr.) and Mary Massoth
Matt and Ruby Parthenakis
Carl and Irene Kenney
Glibert "Doc" Westerberg and wife Violet
Harold "Bus" and Ella Amelia "Katie" Brownell
Chuck, Rose and Jerry Koble
6 people by railroad track
6 men by a tank and railroad car
older man by railroad
-- see also Lowell Centennial/Labor Day Parade, 1952

Parades

Lowell Labor Day Parade, ca. 1930
Lowell Labor Day Parade, ca. 1930
Lowell Labor Day Parade, ca. 1930
Lowell Labor Day Parade, 1930's
Lowell Centennial/Labor Day Parade, 1952
Sears float, Lowell Labor Day Parade, 1964
Sears float, Lowell Labor Day Parade, 1964
Lowell Kiddie Parade, 1979
Lowell Labor Day Parade, 1999
Lowell Labor Day Parade, 2006


School Programs

1901 Cedar Creek Twp. 8th grade commencement program
1903 Cedar Creek Twp. 8th grade commencement program
1912 LHS commencement announcement

The "Snow Cruiser" at the Indiana Dunes, 1939 (Click here to see thumbnails)

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Train Wrecks

In Lowell, May 5, 1914 (Click here to see thumbnails
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View #5

W.P.A. repair of the sinkhole on a road near Dahl's farm (Click here to see thumbnails)

Carl Mahler, Supervisor
Carl Mahler and Guy Surprise
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