Float decorated for parade; photo dated 1918 (Center City 26)

Tri-State Fairgrounds; June 1911 (Deeds 69)

Lutheran Cemetery; photo dated April 1922 (Knecht 3443)

Crowd attending Mayor Bosse’s funeral at Trinity Lutheran Church on W. Illinois St.; photo dated April 7, 1922 (Knecht 1068)

Mobs gathering at Main and First Sts. as police officers arrive to raid a bingo game on June 11, 1945 (Knecht 541)

Mob turns over a police car after a raid on a bingo game on Main St. on June 11, 1945 (Knecht 542)

Second St., between Main and Locust Sts., following the “great snow” of 1917 (Knecht 2375)

200 block of Main St. (Deeds 55)

Mulberry St. at Riverside Dr. (Knecht 4802)

East of Bosse High School (Flood 8)

Lawndale parking lot; photo dated June 18, 1981 (Courier 993)

Float depicting the Evansville-Henderson bridge riding down Main Street during festivities commemorating Evansville’s incorporation in 1847; photo taken in May 1947 (Gaisser 28)

Spectators admiring Chamber of Commerce float on Main St.; May 1947 (Gaisser 21)

Parade float; photo dated 1917 (Misc. 70)

NW Fourth St. (Coliseum in background); c. late 1930s (VC 28)

McCutchanville, IN; photo dated 1921 (Knecht 4218)

The actor visits Evansville to sell Liberty Loan war bonds; standing with him on the steps of the McCurdy Hotel are a Courier reporter (center) and Mrs. Karl K. Knecht (right); photo dated April 14, 1918 (Knecht 2372)

Baptisttown; c. 1920s (Knecht 3698)

Evansville women voting in their first election after the 19th Amendment was passed (Knecht 579)

Evansville Mayor Benjamin Bosse (far right) campaigning in Princeton, IN, for Democratic presidential candidate James M. Cox (second man from left); at Cox’s right is Indiana Governor Tom Taggart (Knecht 3442)

Voters waiting to cast their ballots (Knecht 3694)

Photo dated 1937 (Knecht 4768)

Dedication of the horse fountain by the National Humane Alliance at First Ave. and Pennsylvania St.; Willard Library is in the background; c. 1910 (Allyn 1)

Services for Francis P. Ryves, pastor of Assumption Church; photo dated January 18, 1937 (Knecht 2970)

Presidential candidate George Wallace waves to supporters from the steps of the old Vanderburgh County Courthouse; photo dated October 10, 1968 (21PC 14)

C. early 1900s (Schindler 1)

“Father George Rapp,” founder of New Harmony (white beard), speaks during a pageant in the annual festival during the 1930s (Knecht 3970)

Photographed on SE Riverside Dr.; identified men in the float are Matt Foster, William D. Ruston, John Stark, Henry W. Ruston (small boy), and Louis Kirby; parade took place on November 20, 1928 (Ruston 14)

The Graham brothers in a Graham-Paige automobile during a parade on November 20, 1928 (Bolin 4)

The Evansville Courier and Journal float in parade on November 20, 1928 (Bolin 23)

Possibly the Evansville fairgrounds or Oakland City, IN; c. 1900 (Riggs 11)

Mayor Benjamin Bosse (standing at table in background) delivering his second inaugural speech in January 1918 (Knecht 1868)

Marchers near Sixth and Main Sts. celebrating the inauguration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the sign held by the marcher in the first row reads “Uncle Sam is prescribing a New Deal”; photo dated 1933 (Knecht 761)

Gresham’s body carried by sailors into the Coliseum to lie in state before burial at Locust Hill Cemetery (Gresham was the first American casualty of World War I); photo dated July 15, 1921 (Knecht 387)

Parade on SE Riverside Dr. heralding the arrival of Kay, one of the first inhabitants of Mesker Zoo; dated June 14, 1929 (Knecht 3385)

400 block of Main St.; dated 1920 (Knecht 2361)

Blue prize winner purchased by Servel; photo dated 1952 (Servel 118)

Held at the Coliseum during World War I (Knecht 4436)

Epworth Mine in Warrick County; photo dated December 6, 1912 (Riggs 19)

Newly-crowned “queen” Kathy Rosborough (center), flanked by Nancy Fischer (left), Miss Evansville of 1960, and Tommye Lou Glaze (right), Miss Indiana of 1960; photo dated 1961 (Knecht 949)

Opening of the new toll bridge connecting New Harmony, Indiana, to Illinois; photo taken by Homer Fauntleroy in 1930 (Knecht 3171)

Celebrating visit of George Cox, candidate for U. S. president, to Princeton, IN; 1920 (Knecht 4935)

A group of mothers dedicates park triangle at the intersection of Third, Parrett, and Blackford streets to World War I soldiers; photo dated 1927 (Knecht 187)

Lettie Payne, Women’s Christian Temperance Union member, destroying liquor; c. 1920 (Knecht 363)

Assumption School students marching in 100 block of Main St. during World War I; Hermann’s Candy Store is at the left (Knecht 383)

Marchers on Riverside Dr. at Walnut St.; c. 1918 (Knecht 4069)

Funeral procession for Captain Alfred Ribeyre in New Harmony, IN; photo dated April 8, 1924 (Knecht 3976)

100 block of NW First St.; destroyed by fire in mid-1960s (Seiler 3)

Three of the boys identified are Percy Connor, Selmann Schultz, and Howard Butler; photo dated 1921 (Knecht 638)

Tobacco warehouse in Henderson, Kentucky, in ruins after fire in September 1956; in the background is the damaged Argue plant (Knecht 657)