A Volkswagen New Beetle: the model that relaunched the marque in America in 1998, the year Vorderman acquired Fort Wayne's Volkswagen franchise. Public domain · source fileAppears in: The Dealerships, Vorderman: the service shop that became the Volkswagen…Pages from a gem tintype album of 1900-1905, filled with the tiny inexpensive portraits that were the stock of shops like the Cute Studio at 1008 Calhoun, which in 1905 offered twenty-eight images in four poses for twenty-five cents. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University · No known restrictions · source fileAppears in: Photographers, Washington Blake, the Cute Studio, and a name the record…Title page of the Pentagon AARO office's February 2024 historical report, which found no empirical evidence that any UAP sighting represented extraterrestrial technology. Public domain · source fileAppears in: What the record can and cannot support · UFO SightingsA full-plate ambrotype of about 1858, its sitters' cheeks tinted by hand: an ambrotype is a portrait on glass, and Carl Sommer worked in Fort Wayne for a quarter century as a manufacturer of ambrotypes and gems. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Photographers, Carl Sommer, the enduring German · PhotographersThe Bill Blass Room of the New York Public Library's Schwarzman Building, named for Fort Wayne-born designer Bill Blass, whose $10 million gift was then the largest in the library's history. Bestbudbrian · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source fileAppears in: Famous People, Bill Blass: the dressmaker's son who dressed America ·…A crowd in Sacramento, California, gazes up at the mystery airship, in an illustration from the New York Morning Journal of 29 November 1896, the opening weeks of the 1896-97 airship wave. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Before the saucers: the airship wave of 1896–97 over…Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh briefs reporters at the Pentagon on 12 December 2024, addressing claims about the New Jersey drone sightings as the reports multiplied; within weeks the same wave of reports reached northeast Indiana. Public domain · source fileAppears in: The drone era: winter 2024–25 · UFO SightingsA circa-1970s postcard for Erwin's Marine & Travel Center on Indiana Highway 130 west of Valparaiso, Indiana, whose printed reverse advertises Mercury outboards and snowmobiles among its lines. Steve Shook · CC BY 2.0 · source fileAppears in: Snowmobile Trails, The state system: registration fees, leased farmland…Eastman Kodak's 1900 advertisement for the Folding Pocket Kodak; from 1891 Maurice L. Jones and his son Harry were Kodak dealers at 112 West Wayne Street, selling the pocket cameras that were ending the studio era Jones had begun in. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Photographers, Maurice L. Jones: from the studio chair to the Kodak…A Graflex Pacemaker Crown Graphic 4x5, the model of press camera Paul Watters bought in 1949 and carried through a fifty-year Fort Wayne career before donating it to the History Center in 2011. Solomon203 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source fileAppears in: Photographers, Paul Watters, Daniel Baker, and the school-picture era ·…A 1971 Honda N600 Touring: the N600 was the first car Honda sold in America, and Don Ayres opened his Fort Wayne Honda store in 1970, the marque's first year of continental U.S. sales. Andrew Bone · CC BY 2.0 · source fileAppears in: The Dealerships, Don Ayres Honda: a Honda store from Honda's first American…Jan Rivera, Gino Banks, and Mohini Dey rehearse at Sweetwater Studios in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on January 18, 2024. Jaritcely Villanueva Lugo · CC BY 4.0 · source fileAppears in: Influencers & Digital Creators, Sweetwater: the store that became a studio · Influencers &…Jessie Tarbox Beals beside her camera about 1905, shutter release in hand; the first woman hired as a staff photographer on an American newspaper, she worked in the same decades when Fort Wayne's directories named the women of the trade mostly through their husbands. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Photographers, The women of the trade · PhotographersKenneth Arnold, holding a movie camera beside his airplane on 8 July 1947, two weeks after his report of nine bright objects near Mount Rainier gave the era the term 'flying saucer.' Public domain · source fileAppears in: The national frame: 1947 and the Air Force investigations ·…Michael Shermer of Skeptic magazine, the skeptical counterweight quoted in the Journal Gazette's report on the Fort Wayne UFO class taught by local investigator Roger Sugden. Public domain · source fileAppears in: The believers and the skeptics: Fort Wayne's investigators…Cover sheet of the FBI's released file on NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, whose published chronologies preserve several of the Fort Wayne cases of 1982 to 1991. Public domain · source fileAppears in: 1982–1991: the bulletin and chronology cases · UFO SightingsOhio National Guard soldiers unload supplies from a Huey helicopter during the Blizzard of '78: the storm the Hoagland Blizzard Blazers, founded the next year, named themselves for. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Snowmobile Trails, The Heritage Trail and the Blizzard Blazers of Hoagland ·…Inside a photographer's studio in 1893, A. H. Wheeler of Berlin, Wisconsin, photographs himself at work; rooms like this were the trade Fort Wayne's immigrant photographers, Roggen, Copenolle, Ozaki and Kaung among them, practiced on Calhoun Street in the decades after 1902. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Photographers, The newcomers' studios: Roggen, Copenolle, Ozaki, Kaung ·…Cover of the U.S. intelligence community's 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' of 25 June 2021, the federal government's first public UAP report of the modern reporting-database era. Public domain · source fileAppears in: The modern record: the reporting databases · UFO SightingsPress photographers with their cameras on the White House lawn in 1918, the news trade Fort Wayne's Karl Detzer had taken up for the city's papers in 1909, a generation before the Journal Gazette kept a staff photographer of its own. Harris & Ewing · No known restrictions · source fileAppears in: Photographers, The press photographers · PhotographersThe Air Force's Project 10073 record card for the 7 February 1955 Fort Wayne sighting reported by the crew of American Airlines Flight 266: five objects, departing in groups of two and three; the comments read 'Possibly reflections,' and the conclusion box is checked 'Insufficient Data for Evaluation.' Public domain · source fileAppears in: 7 February 1955: the crew of American Airlines Flight 266 ·…No official file on the Freeman family's August 1961 report is known to exist; this Project Blue Book record card from Clayton, Ohio, is the Air Force's routine case paperwork from the same month, August 1961. Public domain · source fileAppears in: August 1961: the Freeman family's object · UFO SightingsThe Project 10073 record card opening the Project Blue Book file on the 8 September 1966 Federal Building sighting in Fort Wayne, closed as 'Aircraft (possible).' Public domain · source fileAppears in: September 1966: the Federal Building sighting and the Blue…Minister Allen Federspiel's report of 9 March 1967 was filed with NICAP, not the Air Force; shown here is a Project Blue Book record card from Saginaw, Michigan, in the same month, recording a V-shaped object carrying several lights. Public domain · source fileAppears in: 9 March 1967: the minister's X of lights · UFO Sightings
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