Traffic director, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1918
| Description: |
Traffic patrolman Charles T. Hillman (1868-1945) stands in the intersection of Delaware and Maryland Streets and Virginia Avenue. The view looks northwest on Virginia Avenue with the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in the distance. Captioned The Indianapolis Traffic Director of 1918. This gentlemens [sic] station was in the middle of Pennsylvania [struckout with handwritten Virginia] and Maryland Streets and was used for well over twenty years as a form of traffic control in our city. A lantern with red and green glass was placed into the sign for evening hours. / Photo courtesy Bass Photo. The image was used to create this postcard in the latter half of the twentieth century.Bass Photo Company negative #63392-F taken on June 7, 1918 according to studio records. |
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| Origin: | 1918-06-07 |
| Created By: |
William H. Bass Photo Company, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/2A2C8D43-90AB-4E9F-AADE-248350317500 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Album |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Geography: |
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States 39.765620,-86.154535 |
| Subjects: |
Indiana Landmarks Postcard Collection Traffic police Traffic signs & signals Police Street scenes Men Indianapolis (Ind.) Marion County (Ind.) |
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