Front row, l-r: Annie Andel and Emma Monning; back row, l-r: Rachel Andel, Minnie Monning, and Emma Andel; c. 1890 (Buckwinkel 9)

Civic leader, social reformer, and author; d. 1933 (Knecht 362)

Civic leader and president of the Evansville Courier Corporation at her death in 1939; wife of Benjamin Bosse, mayor of Evansville, 1913-1922 (Knecht 3555)

Unidentified employee taking inventory shortly after the repeal of Prohibition; photo dated April 1933 (Knecht 663)

Civic leader and member of first Board of Trustees at Evansville College; c. 1920 (Knecht 5472)

C. 1910 (Cluthe 52)

First female dentist in southwestern Indiana; awarded plaque in 1954 commemorating 50 years of service; d. 1969 (Cluthe 37)

The “Girls” of the Evansville Courier’s newspaper staff (l-r): Julia English, Madge Kellem, Rose Rudin, Frances Iverson, Mary L. Kerth, Rose Elbert, and Anna Runcie; photo dated 1918 or 1919 (Knecht 4001)

Photo sent to Karl Kae Knecht at the Evansville Courier; caption: “To Karl Greetings from Hollywood John and Joan!! — 1941” (Knecht 3549)

1916 graduate of Evansville (Central) High School who became a Hollywood actress and Broadway performer; photo dated June 29, 1928 (Knecht 611)

L-r: Marguerite (Maggie), Matilda (Tillie), Martha (Mattie), Amelia, and Anna; photo dated 1905 (Decker 1)

Mother of James Bethel Gresham, regarded as the first American soldier to die in World War I; c. 1921 (Knecht 538)

Playing tennis in Sunset Park; c. 1915 (Knecht 414)

Left to right: Florence Dannettell, Georgia Carpenter, Edna Curry, Nettie Winfrey, and Nina Curry, possibly performing in an Evansville High School production; c. 1890s (Dannettell 1)

Later Mrs. Rudolph Meyer; photo dated 1899 (Euler 3)

Wife of Philip J. Euler and mother of Philip H. Euler; photo dated 1894 (Euler 2)

Operators of the Finley Sisters Dancing Academy on Mulberry St. for over 50 years; left to right: Kate, Eva, Maude, Ethel, and Jamie Finley; c. 1920s (Knecht 598)

Alice Gresham Dodd (center), mother of James Bethel Gresham, first American casualty of World War I, at rally (Knecht 571)

The Mothers unfurl their flag on a north side building; photo dated 1918 (Knecht 1929)

At left, playing the zither (the other woman is unidentified); c. early 1890s (Cluthe 76)

Photographed in Haubstadt, IN; c. late 1800s (McCutchan 5)

Founder of the Vanderburgh Christian Home that was located on N. Fulton Ave. from 1870-1985 (Willard Library Collection)

The former Charlotte Fuehring; photo dated 1936 (Knecht 3322)

“Aunt Jus” on WTVW-Ch. 7 in the 1950s and “Story Lady” on WEOA; d. 1991 (J. Johnson 3)

Native of McCutchanville, Indiana, and author of the “Little Colonel” series and other children’s books; d. 1931 (Annie Fellows Johnston Collection)

Photo taken at Elikofer’s Art Gallery in Evansville, IN; early 1900s (Kamm 1)

Wife of Karl Kae Knecht, editorial cartoonist and photographer for the Evansville Courier; Alhambra Theater in left background; photo dated 1942 (Knecht Collection)

With step-daughter Evelyn Kolb; photo dated 1914 (Center City 50)

First woman in Evansville to hold a pilot’s license; pictured with pilot Dr. Melvin Durkee at the Evansville airport; 1930s (Sportsmen Pilots Club of Evansville, Inc. Collection)

First director of the Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library system, 1912-1947 (Knecht 3325)

Ambulance driver for the Red Cross during the flu epidemic of 1917-1918 (Knecht 591)

First Communion portrait of girl identified as “daughter of John Miller;” photo taken at Walden Studio in Evansville in the early 1900s (Walden 1803)

On the first television set (WEHT) for her show; c. 1960 (Mitchell 4)

Noted children’s author and daughter of an Evansville mayor; c. 1920s (Knecht 612)

C. 1930s (Knecht 5556)

The former Mildred Wooley; c. 1920 (Knecht 3337)

Photo dated 1935 (Knecht 5565)

Photo dated 1936 (Knecht 5559)

Visiting Vincennes and Tri-State area in 1936 (Knecht 3713)

Program director at WGBF radio station (photo from booklet compiled and published by National Radio Personalities in 1939)

Civic leader and WGBF radio personality; photo dated 1945 (Rosencranz 1)

C. 1920s (Walden Studio 1698)

Graduation from St. Mary’s School of Nursing; photo dated June 26, 1919 (Schaefer 2)

Costumed for German Day program (later married Adolph Reitz); c. 1895 (Meyer-Schlamp 247)

Minnie (left) was valedictorian of Evansville High School’s Class of 1885; Lillian was also an EHS student (Sickenberger 1)

C. 1925 (Schaefer 5)

The band of Irma Pfohl (Durre), which performed at the Strand Theater; c. early 1920s (Miscellaneous 1673)

Holding son Billy on Riverside Dr. at Chestnut St.; c. 1903 (Misc. 566)

Standing next to her Piper Cub; photo dated May 13, 1987 (Lant 12)

Weathercaster for WFIE Channel 14 and WTVW Channel 7 for 35 years before retiring in 1988 (Lant 7)