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Excerpt from Indianapolis City Directory, 1873: Comprising a Complete Alphabetical List of All Business Firms and Private Citizens; A Classified Business Directory and City Guide The Business Directory represents the business and manufacturing interests more correctly than has ever been before represented by such a medium. The City Guide furnishes much useful information to both citizen and stranger. The difficulty of compiling a City Directory can hardly be understood, and is not easily explained, yet we believe that the Directory for 1873 is more nearly correct than any of its prede cessors. We have endeavored, and we think successfully, to'obviate several difiicul ties attending former canvasses. The book itself is the best evidence of the improve ment effected, though we do not claim absolute exactness. The present issue contains names, against in 1872; and on the basis of three persons to each name, gives a population of fully persons, bearing out our anticipations concerning the growth of the city. The Directory contains a great amount of information concerning the Public, Religious, Charitable and Private Institutions of the city, which makes it a valuable present-record, as well as historical authority. Every person should have at his place of business, or at his house a Directory, not only as a daily convenience, but also as a valuable record of local history. An examina ation of the book will disclose its permanent value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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"City directories contain a wealth of information for genealogists, researchers, and everyday history enthusiasts. These books tell a great deal about our past by including the names and information about residents as well as businesses in Indianapolis through the years. Inside you'll find addresses and occupations of householders, complete business directories, and much more. This collection [originally published by R.L. Polk & Co.] consists of 14 Indianapolis city directories ranging from 1858-1980"--Indianapolis City Directory Collection homepage.
In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. Suspicion for both deaths turned to Nancy Clem, a housewife who was also one of Mr. Young's former business partners. Wendy Gamber chronicles the life and times of this charming and persuasive Gilded Age confidence woman, who became famous not only as an accused murderess but also as an itinerant peddler of patent medicine and the supposed originator of the Ponzi scheme.
Excerpt from The Indianapolis City Directory: For 1865 The annual progress in the varied business interest of the Commercial Emporium and Capitol of our State, demands increased labor, and corresponding improvement in each successive number of the City Directory. Our patrons will bear us witness that at no previous period in our history, has the improvement in every branch of business been more marked than during the past year. Increasing with regularity and rapidity since about 1850, the progress since 1862 has been almost unparalleled in the history of any other inland American city. In proof of our rapid advance in population, we need only refer to the fact, that the present number of the City Directory contains about fifteen hundred more names than the Directory for 1864, issued one year since. These names, it must be remembered, embrace householders, Leads of families, and business names and firms only. From this data it will be safe to presume that Indianapolis received an accession to her entire population, during the past year, of about twenty per cent. In canvassing the city and collecting matter for the present number, our canvassers have visited every house and place of business, and, in many instances, repeated calls have been made, for the purpose of perfecting, as far as possible, the details for this work. In its publication and delivery we have been unavoidably detained by the re-numbering of the city, which was not entirety completed at the date of our canvass. Where numbers do not occur, we Lave designated locations by streets and blocks, to obviate this difficulty as far as possible. Strangers, and others, who visit our city for business purposes, will find the most extensive establishments, in all the various branches, very fully represented in our advertising pages. For the liberal patronage extended us, our advertisers and subscribers have placed us under grateful obligations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
As a planned community, Indianapolis boasted finished frame and brick buildings from its beginning. Architects and builders drew on Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Gothic, Romanesque, and Italian Renaissance styles for commercial, industrial, public, and religious buildings and for residences. In Architecture in Indianapolis: 1820–1900, preservationist and architectural historian Dr. James Glass explores the rich variety of architecture that appeared during the city's first 80 years, to 1900. Glass explains how economic forces shaped building cycles, such as the Canal Era, the advent of railroads, the natural gas boom, and repeated recessions and recoveries. He describes 243 buildings that illustrate the styles that architects and builders incorporated into the designs that they devised in each era between 1820 and 1900. This book also documents the loss of distinctive 19th century architecture that has occurred in Indianapolis. It includes 373 photographs and drawings that depict the buildings described and locator maps that show where concentrations of buildings were constructed. Architecture in Indianapolis: 1820–1900 provides the first history of 19th-century architecture in the city and will serve as an indispensable reference for decades to come.