Long-time Evansville residents and prominent in the arts; c. 1950 (Honig 143)

Edward, wife Mary (Ramp), and children; c. 1902 (Baronowsky 1)

Evansville business and civic leaders visiting the camp on June 15, 1944 (Knecht 1853)

Standing outside, l-r: John McCormick, Rev. Denbo, Mrs. Robert Stilwell, Mrs. A. G. White, Guthrie May, Karl Knecht, and Col. Robert Stilwell; photo dated April 6, 1941 (Knecht 922)

Indiana soldiers, including men from Evansville, arriving at the camp on April 6, 1941 (Knecht 926)

Major General Robert Tyndall (center), Commander of the 38th Division, with Colonel Louis L. Roberts (left), Commander of the 139th Field Artillery, and Karl Kae Knecht (right), Evansville Courier cartoonist, at Camp Shelby; photo dated April 6, 1941 (Knecht 914)

Karl Kae Knecht (center, in bowtie), Courier photographer and reporter, with draftees, including Guthrie May of Evansville (to right of Knecht); photo dated April 6, 1941 (Knecht 919)

Game held at the WPA Community Center; photo dated 1938 (Knecht 517)

Club members at camp on the grounds of the salt pool; early 1900s (Cluthe 85)

Probably students on steps of school; the girl standing at lower left is identified as Alia Shrode; dated “1908 or so” (Knecht 4783)

Photographed on the steps of the Coliseum in 1931 (Knecht 455)

Standing in front of monument at Gibson County Courthouse; c. 1910 (Forthoffer 1)

Clifford Shopbell (in rear, at right) and his staff of architects and engineers; Ed Thole is at typewriter, and Joe Berridge is at his left; photo dated 1919 (Knecht 576)

Wedding day, 1894 (Cluthe 43)

Photo taken at Douglas Studio in Evansville; late 1800s (Cluthe 47)

Photo dated 1921 (Knecht 381)

Company employees; photo dated April 12, 1904 (Ahles 2)

Office staff; man in back room is Harry Henry Schu, and his son Elmer Clem Schu is seated at right; photo dated October 6, 1909 (Ahles 5)

C. 1925 (Faith 1)

Professional baseball player Edd Roush with his wife Essie and daughter Mary (holding bat) at their home in Oakland City, Indiana; photo dated 1920 (Knecht 2987)

Greg Server (left) and David Koehler, Sr., at Republican Headquarters (Courier 928)

Probably photographed at Dade (Ellis) Park, c. 1940. Standing (l-r) are Ethel Louise Wells, Dr. Jim Bryan, Helen Hatcher, Helen Schultz, Al Koch, Richard Gumberts, Mary Louise Puster, Troy Ashby, and Reginald Dryer; the women on horseback are Betty Botts, Viola Kramer, and Mrs. Troy Ashby (Knecht 1396)

(Men unidentified); c. 1940s (Payne 43)

Evansville Courier employee (1914-1918) who served as the newspaper’s war correspondent to Mexico (Lewis is probably the center man in the back row); photo dated 1916 (Knecht 556)

Hopalong Cassidy crowning Doris Jean Brown queen of the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival on October 17, 1956 (Miscellaneous 37)

C. 1940s (Schindler 2)

Diamond Island; Ernest Andel (back row, third from left) is the only identified man; c. 1905 (Buckwinkel 1)

Women tending a community war garden during World War I (Knecht 1957)

Mary Emily Fauntleroy (seated) and New Harmony High School students participating in festival: (l-r) Doris Kemmerling, Paul Blackford, Madge Hall, Gerald Gluver, Lilwyn Lafeitte, Robert Butler, Lois Englebright, Paul Truman Johnson, Mary Jane Hancock, and Billy Morris; photo dated 1941 (Knecht 3972)

Helfrich Field; players are identified as Merritt DeJong, Bill Loughlin, Alex Ritchie, and John Fendrich; 1920s (Meyer-Schlamp 153)

Last name of woman at far left is Wells; second from right is (Corinne?) Bitterman; others unidentified; photo dated 1936 and possible taken at Clearcrest Country Club (Knecht 492)

Photo dated June 8, 1935; two of the boys are Clarence and Claude Wargel (gift of Virginia Wargel London, 2009)

Local 110; last name of men: Mitchel, Downs, Buckwinkel, Keck, Howe, Kroening, Dewig, Kroener, Tod, Becker, Crowley, Kautzman, Martz, Hegland, Reinheart, Liniger, and Fiest; photo taken on Labor Day, 1907 (Buckwinkel 5)

Photo dated 1930s (Knecht 3595)

Photo dated 1913 (Center City 49)

Appearing in local show; both were the children of Evansville publishers, and Gilbert later became a prominent architect; photo dated 1917 (Knecht 595)

At one time, each of these men served as mayor: (l-r) Charles Covert, John Boehne, Sr., William Elmendorf, Herbert Males, Frank Griese, William Dress, and Manson Reichert; c. late 1940s (Koenemann 11)

Opening of bank at Second and Sycamore Sts.; some of the men identified are Ed Moskowitz, Joseph Iglehart, and Mark Ingle; c. 1915-1920 (Knecht 562)

The Mesker family gathered in St. Louis for Frank Mesker’s wedding in 1903. Seated (l-r) are George L. Mesker, Anna Schmidt, Frank Mesker, Pauline Gehner Mesker, Ben Mesker, Oscar Schmidt; standing (l-r) are John Mesker, Albert Gehner, August Gehner, Willamina Gehner. (The boy seated on the floor is unidentified.)

Zelia Heiser, contestant, surrounded by Tau Kappa Epsilon pledges Don McNair (left) and Dan Neufelder (right), as she prepares for pageant; photo dated 1958 (Knecht 946)

Young women modeling clothes for The Boston Store in Evansville; c. 1920 (Walden-Risley Collection)

Workers at Neisner Bros., Inc., a general merchandise store that was located at 417-423 Main St., pose on a staircase on November 23, 1931. The following women were identified: Helen Schuerger, Margret Tonnemacher, Lillian Opperman, Elnora Lauber, Anna Robertson, and Dorthy [sic] Boehne. (Miscellaneous Collection)

Photo taken on the steps of a “local orphanage” in 1911 (Knecht 1866)

On the television set at WEHT station; 1950s (Mitchell 5)

C. 1930s (Knecht 4418)

(L) Ernest Schellhase and (r) Emil Wiggers; photo dated 1935 (Knecht 3992)

En route to the dedication of the George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, IN, on June 14, 1936 (Knecht 4878)

Indiana Senator Vance Hartke greeting voters at the polls (Courier 952)

Robert D. Orr (left) and Mayor Russell G. Lloyd, Sr. (Courier 956)

Noted Presbyterian minister and church workers; residents of Newburgh; c. 1920 (Knecht 2540)