The General Electric works at Fort Wayne, photographed in 1909, grown from the Broadway electrical works Ranald T. McDonald founded as the Fort Wayne Jenney Electric Light Company in 1881. Public domain · source file Appears in: Technology , The movers — the people who built the base · Technology Nickel Plate Road 765 under steam, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society locomotive that is a museum in motion Raymond Wambsgans from Akron Ohio, USA · CC BY 2.0 · source file Appears in: Museums , A museum that moves: Nickel Plate 765 and the Fort Wayne… Continuously transposed copper conductor for power transformer windings, a modern form of the insulated magnet wire New Haven Wire and Cable Company was documented as producing by 1960. Fluppe37 · CC BY 4.0 · source file Appears in: Notable People , New Haven Wire and Cable Company · Notable People Detail of the March 1885 Sanborn fire insurance map of Fort Wayne showing the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad roundhouse and depot. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Pennsy Shops · Notable People Arthur St. Clair, portrait by Charles Willson Peale Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , St. Clair · Notable People Baker Street Station in Fort Wayne, photographed in 2011; the McClintock clock that crowned the Peoples Trust building on Calhoun Street from 1930 to 1973 was rededicated atop this station on 30 January 2009. CC0 · source file Appears in: Businesses , Peoples Trust and Savings Company · Businesses The United States Court House and Post Office in Fort Wayne, built in 1861 and pictured about 1901: the federal building that housed the postmasters listed on this page. Public domain · source file Appears in: Public Servants , The postmasters — the federal government's local face ·… A portable oil tank and pump built for the United States government by the Wayne Oil Tank and Pump Company of Fort Wayne, photographed by the company during the First World War: one of the pump works that made this a fuel pump city. Public domain · source file Appears in: Industrial Revolution , Pumps, wire and washers · the diversified factory city ·… A bobbin of enamelled copper magnet wire, the product Rea Magnet Wire has manufactured in Fort Wayne since Victor Rea founded the company in 1933. wdwd · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source file Appears in: Notable People , Rea Magnet Wire Company · Notable People The Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, photographed in 2017: designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003, it heads the National Register record this page audits. Charles W. Chapman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file Appears in: Architecture , National Register, SHAARD and ARCH Listings · Architecture A letter from Samuel Hanna to Governor Oliver P. Morton, written on 23 January 1864 and preserved by the Indiana State Archives. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Samuel Hanna · Notable People North Side High School in a Tichnor Brothers postcard view; North Side is one of the high schools run by Fort Wayne Community Schools under its elected Board of School Trustees. Public domain · source file Appears in: Government , The school government: Fort Wayne Community Schools ·… Fort Wayne Masonic Temple, 206 E. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne, Indiana CC0 · source file Appears in: Lodges & Fraternal Orders , Lodges & Fraternal Orders Page 11 of The Fort Wayne Sentinel of 9 May 1912: the daily paper that descends from the Sentinel founded in 1833 as Fort Wayne's first newspaper. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , The Sentinel · Notable People The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Calhoun Street, standing on the Cathedral Square ground that the parish of St. Augustine bought in 1831. Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source file Appears in: Churches & Religion , St. Augustine's: the first Catholic parish · Churches &… Plate 68 of the 1918 Sanborn fire insurance map of Fort Wayne shows the Thieme Bros. Co. Knitting Mill on the west side of Knitters Avenue, with knitting on its first and second floors and inspecting and stock rooms on the third. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Thieme Brothers Hosiery Company · Notable People A gasoline pump made by Tokheim, preserved at the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, California, and photographed in 2018. CC0 · source file Appears in: Businesses , Tokheim — Tokheim Manufacturing Company (Cedar Rapids) →… In the Morning Oregonian of October 9, 1901, a Meier and Frank advertisement offers a free Shetland pony to ten children guessing nearest the combined weight of ten ponies, the contest that advertised Wayne knit Pony Stockings, the children's hosiery United Knitting Mills made in Fort Wayne. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , United Knitting Mills · Notable People Pages 2 and 3 of 'Why don't you wear good hosiery?', the Wayne Knitting Mills trade booklet arguing that three pairs of good hose at 25 cents outwear six pairs of cheap hose. Public domain · source file Appears in: Businesses , Wayne Knitting Mills · Businesses Plate 92 of the 1902 Sanborn fire insurance map of Fort Wayne shows the Wayne Knitting Mills plant on Knitters Avenue, its knitting machine buildings, dye house and office set along the Lake Erie and Western Railroad above West Main Street. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Wayne Knitting Mills · Notable People A Wayne Pump Company gasoline pump lettered for Gold Crown Super Premium gasoline, photographed by John Margolies in Brooklyn, Iowa, in 1980. Public domain · source file Appears in: Businesses , Wayne Pump Company (Wayne Oil Tank Company → Dresser-Wayne… A Wayne portable oil tank and pump, shown on a First World War era Signal Corps record card that credits the Wayne Oil Tank and Pump Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana as its maker. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Wayne Pump Company · Notable People A hand drawn map of Allen County, Indiana, in 1846, showing Fort Wayne and the county townships less than two decades after Zenas Henderson opened his store. Public domain · source file Appears in: Notable People , Zenas Henderson's General Store · Notable People Allen Hamilton, first sheriff of Allen County and a founder of the bank that became the Hamilton National Bank, in the portrait printed in Griswold's Pictorial History of Fort Wayne in 1917. Public domain · source file Appears in: Businesses , Notable People , Allen Hamilton · Notable People
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