The ruins of the last blockhouse of old Fort Wayne in 1852, drawn from the daguerreotype Charles C. Stevens made that year, the only photographic picture of any building of the old fort; the plate is lettered from the original, then owned by Mrs. Adam Link. Public domain · source file Appears in: Photographers , Charles C. Stevens and the last blockhouse · Photographers A sliding-box daguerreotype camera of the kind the first itinerant photographers carried into Fort Wayne in 1843, when the daguerreotype arrived with the Wabash and Erie Canal and rooms were taken by the season on Columbia Street. Public domain · source file Appears in: Photographers , The first cameras: itinerants on Columbia Street ·… A carte-de-visite portrait of the 1860s by the New York studio of C. D. Fredricks & Co.: an albumen paper photograph of the kind Byron Benham first offered in Fort Wayne in place of daguerreotypes, and that Almira Benham sold at her Ladies Picture Gallery from 1858. CC0 · source file Appears in: Photographers , Byron and Almira Benham: paper pictures and the Ladies… Weather observers launch a pilot balloon and prepare to track it by theodolite from a Coast Guard vessel, about 1950; reading the upper sky this way was the daily work of the Weather Bureau, whose Fort Wayne meteorologist Don Semancik watched an unidentified light for four hours on 7 August 1957. Public domain · source file Appears in: 7 August 1957: the meteorologist's four-hour light · UFO… A cabinet-card portrait of a boy, made about 1888 by James N. Walton's studio in Aurora, Indiana: the large-format studio child portrait of the kind George J. Parrot made his specialty in Fort Wayne from 1894, in a studio Griswold said often resembled a nursery. Public domain · source file Appears in: Photographers , George J. Parrot, the children's photographer ·… Calhoun Street looking north from Main Street in 1897, photographed by Frank R. Barrows; John A. Shoaff opened Shoaff's Art Gallery at the northwest corner of Calhoun and Main in 1864 and later built the Shoaff Building at Calhoun and Columbia, a block up this street. Public domain · source file Appears in: Photographers , John A. Shoaff and the Shoaff Building · Photographers Calhoun Street looking south from West Berry Street, photographed by Frank R. Barrows and printed with his credit in Fort Wayne Illustrated (1897); his gallery stood on West Berry, and his camera made many of the views through which the 1890s city is now seen. Public domain · source file Appears in: Photographers , Frank R. Barrows and "the finest gallery in the State" ·… The C. L. Centlivre Brewery in 1897, photographed by William Salzmann; printed in Fort Wayne Illustrated with the credit 'Salzmann Photo', it became the German studio photographer's best-known image, the city's great German brewery taken by its German photographer. Public domain · source file Appears in: Photographers , William Salzmann, photographer to the German city ·… Baer Field from the air: Fort Wayne's airport in a USGS photograph of 10 April 2002 Public domain · source file Appears in: 22 May 1964: calls to the Baer Field tower · UFO Sightings The west lobby of the Arts United Center in Fort Wayne, Louis I. Kahn's Fine Arts Center and Performing Arts Theatre of 1973, looking out at its brick towers: Gabriel DeLobbe made the building's as-built photographs about 1973, now held with Kahn's papers at the University of Pennsylvania. JBejar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file Appears in: Photographers , Gabriel DeLobbe: the saboteur who taught Fort Wayne to see… The south side of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art on East Main Street in Fort Wayne, photographed on May 10, 2014. Momoneymoproblemz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source file Appears in: Artists , Bruce Nauman: born in Fort Wayne, 1941 · Artists NOAA's surface weather analysis for January 26, 1978, the morning the Great Blizzard sat over Indiana. Public domain · source file Appears in: Snowmobile Trails , The Blizzard of 1978: the snowmobile's week · Snowmobile… Fort Wayne International Airport from above, USGS digital orthophoto, 10 April 2002 Public domain · source file Appears in: Airports , The present field: towers, records, and Project Gateway ·… The Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne on a Tichnor Brothers postcard of the 1930s or 1940s: the seat of the county whose sheriff succession this page verifies, beginning with Allen Hamilton in 1824. Public domain · source file Appears in: Government , Allen County Sheriff — verified succession points ·… Former Fort Wayne City Hall, now The History Center, 308 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne, Indiana CC0 · source file Appears in: Museums , The Allen County–Fort Wayne Historical Society · Museums The Fort Wayne Museum of Art on East Main Street, with outdoor sculpture and exhibition banners Momoneymoproblemz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source file Appears in: Artists , Artists West Lobby of the Arts United Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana JBejar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file Appears in: Arts , Arts Exterior of Arts United Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA grabadonut · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source file Appears in: Arts , An arts campus downtown: the Kahn plan and what grew from… Ash Skyline Plaza on South Harrison Street in downtown Fort Wayne, headquarters of Ash Brokerage since 2016, photographed in April 2024. Xnatedawgx · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file Appears in: Businesses , Ash Brokerage (Ash Brokerage Corp.) · Businesses Tower of the former International Harvester Fort Wayne Works, Fort Wayne, Indiana CC0 · source file Appears in: Automobiles , Automobiles The Map of Fort Wayne and Vicinity, published in 1880, marks G. Esmond, then its owner, at the site of the water powered gristmill James Barnett and Samuel Hanna completed in 1827 on the St. Marys River south of Fort Wayne. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Barnett & Hanna Mill · Notable People Signed by P. M. Neff and dated 18 July 1795, this manuscript map drawn for General Anthony Wayne shows the new American fort across the St. Marys River from Kekionga, the Miami capital at the head of the Maumee, ground where Samuel Hanna later built his trading post. Public domain · source file Appears in: Government , Notable People , Barnett–Hanna Trading Post · Notable People , Before the county: how Kekionga governed itself · Government A Gilmore Blu-Green gasoline pump manufactured by the S. F. Bowser company of Fort Wayne, photographed at the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, California. CC0 · source file Appears in: The Bowser Site — the First Gas Pump and the "First Filling… Philo T. Farnsworth, the television inventor whose Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation bought the Capehart company and ran its plant on East Pontiac Street in Fort Wayne. Public domain · source file Appears in: Businesses , Capehart Automatic Phonograph Corporation → Farnsworth…
×
Support Moosed History
If you would like to support the work of keeping this history online, you can make a one-time or monthly contribution. Every donation unlocks the downloadable book of the entire History site — a print-quality PDF, plus EPUB. Monthly supporters keep getting the latest edition. This is not a tax-deductible contribution.
Payments are processed by Stripe. Card details stay with Stripe and are not stored on this site. After checkout you will get a thank-you page and an email with your book.