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- The factories on film, I — Studebaker's own pictures Film
- The factories on film, II — Oliver's picture, and the Bendix negative Film
- The Factors and the league that folded, 1915 Sports
- The factory city The Story of South Bend
- The factory floor: company bands, and the gap where their record should be Music
- A fair inside a pleasure ground: the Interstate Fair at Springbrook Fairs
- A fair is not a festival Fairs
- The fairgrounds' other lives Fairs
- The fairgrounds: the ground racing grew out of Racing
- Fairs Section
- The falcons of the towers Strange but True
- The fall of water at the bend Industrial Revolution
- The fallen: eight names at Seitz Park, and the department's memorial roll Fire & Public Safety
- The famous grave that moved Strange but True
- Famous Landmarks Section
- Famous People Section
- Famous Stories & the Record Section
- The Farmers banks — the Farmers Security Bank and the Farmers' Trust Company Banks
- The farmers' institutions: Grange, institutes, insurance, bureau, extension Farms & Crops
- Farms & Crops Section
- Fashion Section
- The fashion floors: Robertson's, Wyman's, Ellsworth's, and Sax Fashion
- Fastpitch — the Bendix Brakes win a national championship Sports
- Father Czyzewski: the builder of Polish South Bend Notable People
- The federal line I: from Colfax to the war generation Public Servants
- The federal line II: Brademas to the present holders Public Servants
- The federal survey: ruling the valley into squares Historic Maps
- The federal test: the Farm Security Administration did not photograph this city Photographers
- The Federation, the Chest, and the United Way of St. Joseph County Charities
- Feferman: a Cadillac store run by four brothers Dealerships
- Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park Trails
- Festive dress: the Greek costumes, and the Polish silence Fashion
- Fifteen minutes of hail: the fair of 1886 Fairs
- Filed under the wrong city — the closing confusions Famous Landmarks
- Film Section
- Film & TV Producers Section
- The Film's Shadow, Stated Exactly South Bend Blue Sox
- Fire & Public Safety Section
- The fire chiefs Public Servants
- Fire, flood, and the toll of the works Industrial Revolution
- The firehouse theatre: Civic Theatre, 1957 Culture
- The first airport: the municipal field northeast of the city Airports
- The First Bank and Trust Company — 1st Source Bank, and the 1863 question Banks
- The first branches: River Park, Washington, Tutt, Western Libraries
- The first brewer: the question, and the Muessel ground Wineries & Distilleries
- The first community: the Pokagon Band remained Communities
- The first company, and the first martyr · the 9th Indiana's three-months men Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- The first county map: Stokes and Shober, 1863 Historic Maps
- The first court — Chapman's fifth chapter read first-hand: the first term, the first indictment Crime History
- The First Courts, the First Sheriff, and a Jail of Hewn Oak Crime History
- The first families of record · settlement under the Black Laws Black History
- The first flight: René Simon, 10 September 1911 Airports
- First Growth: Deer, a Buffalo Yard, and Ten Acres Zoo
- The first hour: dial-up, and the provider the record barely keeps Dot-Com Era
- First jets: United's Caravelles, January 1967 Airports
- The first library: a store room, a move, and a fire Libraries
- The first line: the 1976 ordinance and Dandy Co. Swingers Clubs
- The first manufactures, before the dam Industrial Revolution
- The first mayors: the doctor, the poet, and the oldest man Government
- The First Murder Trials Crime History
- The First National Bank of South Bend — Charter No. 126 Banks
- The first of the great names to go · Singer, 1954 Major Events
- The first paper: the North-Western Pioneer and St. Joseph's Intelligencer Newspapers & Media
- The first pictures: a daguerreian on Michigan Street, 1858–1861 Photographers
- First Presbyterian Church: Organized May 3, 1834 Churches & Religion
- First presences on the web, as the archive dates them Dot-Com Era
- The First Public Ground: The Plat's Public Square Parks & City Planning
- The first public library on the web Strange but True
- The first sellers: the wagon maker's repositories Dealerships
- The First St. Joseph Hotel, the Derbin, and the Second National Hotels
- The first tenants of the power Industrial Revolution
- The first train: October 1851 Railroads
- The first war's home front The Story of South Bend
- The First World War · the Guard goes back, and the county goes with it Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- Firsts in public life · the legislature, the council chamber, the uniform, the classroom Black History
- Firsts in public office, tested one by one Women's History
- The Fischoff: a competition founded here Arts
- Five Points: Corby's, The Commons, Nickie's and Bridget's — and the licensing wars Bars & Nightclubs
- The five Studebaker brothers — the founding, divided Founders & CEOs
- The floods as river: the gauge's own table The St. Joseph River
- Flour first: the milling ground the food industry started on Food & Restaurants
- The Folding Paper Box Company Businesses
- Folklore Section
- Food & Restaurants Section
- The Food Bank of Northern Indiana Charities
- The Football Register: The Rest of the Born and Formed Line Sports Players
- The Forbes Test: No Resident Billionaire — and One Who Got Away Great Fortunes
- The forecast record: what South Bend predicted for itself Population
- The foreign-born peak, counted: 1910 and 1920 The Story of South Bend
- The foreign-born waves, as the censuses record them Population
- The former College Football Hall of Fame building — fame's forwarding address Famous Landmarks
- The forty acres between the cities: the fair becomes Potawatomi Park Fairs
- Foundations & Nonprofits Section
- Founders & CEOs Section
- The founding bankers — Stanfield, Seixas, Brownfield, Blanchard, and the rest Founders & CEOs
- The founding benefactions: town lots, a church split three ways, a fountain, and a deer Major Donations
- The Founding Generation — One Faculty in Many Buildings Schools & Colleges
- The fountain that was given twice Strange but True
- Four buildings in one November Libraries
- Four Winds Field — the ballpark the fans voted best in the country Famous Landmarks
- The Four Winds Hotel Tower Hotels
- Four Winds: the city's side of the agreement Lottery & Crypto
- The Fourth City Chosen: The Founding, Spring 1943 South Bend Blue Sox
- The frame: a town of trustees, then a city Government
- The frame: two halves of one sector, and the societies told elsewhere Foundations & Nonprofits
- Frank Sullivan Jr.: the second justice Notable People
- Frank Worden and Jacob Kuntz — the bait company Founders & CEOs
- Frankie's BBQ: the Washington Street smokehouse of 1968 Food & Restaurants
- The fraternal city of 1907: Howard's census Private Clubs
- Frederic Ingersoll and the road to an orchestra Music
- Frederick Badet and John Teel — two men and a croquet set Founders & CEOs
- Frederick S. Fish — the son-in-law who motorized the house Founders & CEOs
- The Free Press and the St. Joseph Valley Register: Colfax's paper Newspapers & Media
- Freedom-seekers through this county · the documented traffic, and the lines that ran elsewhere Underground Railroad
- Freeman-Spicer, and the day the factory closed Dealerships
- Freight today: three railroads and a remnant Railroads
- The French century upriver: Fort St. Joseph and the missions Before the City
- The French of the trading town Communities
- The friendship layer: sister cities Exports
- From the air: the 1951 and 1957 series, and the makers no record names Photographers
- From the air: the photographic map Historic Maps
- From the Exchange to the Sheridan: The Hotel at Michigan and LaSalle Hotels
- The funding course: how the money reaches the art Arts
- The fur traders: Navarre, Coquillard, Taylor The Story of South Bend