Julia Barr as Brooke English, behind bars in an All My Children storyline, 1977 Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Julia Barr · Notable People Margaret Ringenberg in a cockpit in her WASP years Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Margaret Ringenberg · Notable People Marion Donovan, the diaper-cover inventor, in a colour snapshot of the 1950s Elizabeth Edmondson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source file Appears in: Notable People , Marion Donovan · Notable People Little Turtle in a 19th-century engraving, captioned with his name in the original plate — no portrait from life survives Public domain · source file Appears in: The portrait that burned: what Little Turtle looked like ·… Veraestau, the estate home Allen Hamilton’s banking fortune built: not in Fort Wayne but above the Ohio River at Aurora, Indiana, where this page says his estate home stood Indiana Landmarks · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Great Fortunes , Allen Hamilton: Banking at the Head of the Maumee · Great… Lobby card for The Gay Bride (MGM, 1934): Carole Lombard between Chester Morris and Nat Pendleton, billed on the card as the bridegroom, the bride, and the best man Public domain · source file Appears in: Comedy , Carole Lombard: the screwball queen, born on Rockhill… The Embassy Theatre under the Indiana Hotel tower on Jefferson Street, its marquee asking the city to support the Embassy Theatre Foundation Indiana Landmarks · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Comedy , Comedy The Lincoln Bank Tower over the Berry Street storefronts in 1983: the skyscraper of the company Dr. Calvin English co-founded, photographed by Tom Slade Tom Slade · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Great Fortunes , The English Fortune: Lincoln Life Stock and the… Inside the fur fortune’s house: the living room of the William G. Ewing House, 514 West Berry Street, photographed for the Historic American Buildings Survey, 30 March 1934 Public domain · source file Appears in: Great Fortunes , The Ewings: William G. and George W. Ewing · Great Fortunes A survivor of the age that named the city: the fieldstone Canal House at 114 East Superior Street, its gable dated 1852 Indiana Landmarks · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Fort Wayne is the Summit City because the canal crested… Embassy Theatre interior, 121 West Jefferson Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, showing light fixtures and decorative painting Indiana Landmarks · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Film , The Embassy Theatre's ghost is stage manager Bud Berger. ·… , Film The machine itself: an original 1972 Magnavox Odyssey console with its two controllers, photographed in a museum case Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source file Appears in: The Magnavox Odyssey was invented in Fort Wayne. · Famous… Historic Fort Wayne on Baltes Avenue in 1977, just after the rebuild: the reconstructed fort’s log buildings behind their palisade Indiana Landmarks · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: The Old Fort on Spy Run is Anthony Wayne's fort. · Famous… The whole tract from directly above: Smith Field in a USGS aerial photograph, 6 April 1998, its crossed runways inside the ground the city inspected in 1919 Public domain · source file Appears in: Airports , The first field: inspected 1919, instruction from 1923 ·… Smith Field in its general-aviation life: a light aircraft on the ramp before the big hangar, the beacon tower behind the T-hangars Yuri Photographer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file Appears in: Airports , The general-aviation layer: Chapter 2, the schools, and the… One of the bankers’ row houses this page gathers: the McCulloch-Weatherhogg Double House, 334 East Berry Street, photographed in 1997 in its boarded years, before restoration Indiana Landmarks · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Great Fortunes , The Houses the Fortunes Built · Great Fortunes The fortune made visible: the Chief Richardville House, 5705 Bluffton Road, photographed in 1993, the 1827 Greek Revival treaty house Indiana Landmarks · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Great Fortunes , Jean Baptiste Richardville and the Treaty-Era Fortune ·… A period postcard that names both fields on its face: Baer Field, Army Airport at lower left, Smith Municipal Airport at lower right Public domain · source file Appears in: Airports , Two fields, two names: the settlement of 1941 · Airports The Embassy marquee in detail, the billboard of the house that opened as the Emboyd in 1928, given over here to the campaign that saved the building Indiana Landmarks · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Comedy , The vaudeville bills: what played here · Comedy Johnny Appleseed as Harper's New Monthly Magazine drew him in 1871: the pioneer nurseryman with his sack of seed, a generation after his death. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , John Chapman · Notable People The Treaty of Greenville, 1795: Captain William Wells kneels at the center as interpreter, transcribing the speeches. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , William Wells · Notable People Full-length image of the Lincoln Bank Tower in Fort Wayne, Indiana, facing south Detsom · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Businesses , Businesses The Lakeside Historic District, a neighborhood near downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, photographed from the top of the dike along Edgewater Street, showing several examples of period homes. DOTremain · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file Appears in: Communities , Communities Facing south from the Three Rivers Water Filtration Plant at the confluence of the three rivers, with the Columbia Street Bridge in the background Momoneymoproblemz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source file Appears in: Before the City , Before the City
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