Historic Photo Collection - Businesses and Industries: Q-Z

Red Spot Company: Young girl gazes at Christmas window display; photo dated 1951 (Center City 22)

Rose Bowl Lanes: C. 1950s-early 1960s (Seiler 1)

S. S. Kresge Company: Main St.; c. 1948 (Gaisser 3)

S. S. Kresge Company: C. 1948 (Gaisser 2)

Saloon: NW Third St.; operated by Peter H. Hammerstein; c. 1905 (Aldrich 3)

Sargeant Coal Company (Newburgh, IN): Caption: “Coal delivered to Charles Lee by T. B. Anderson from Sargeant Coal Co.;” early 1900s (Riggs 18)

Sawmill: Probably the West Side; c. late 1800s – early 1900s (Payne 56)

Schear’s Department Store: 21 SE Fourth St.; c. 1940s (Knecht 799)

Schmitz & Fendrich: C. 1880 (Center City 41)

Sears, Roebuck and Company: Washington Square location, which opened in the early 1960s; photo dated 1972 (Sears Collection)

Sears, Roebuck and Company: Downtown location at Fourth and Sycamore; large sign at corner commemorates the store’s 38th anniversary in Evansville; photo dated 1964 (Sears Collection)

Servel Inc.: Company executives attending the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the gas refrigeration sales campaign; c. 1946 (Servel 127)

Servel Inc.: Sign reads: “Just arrived in Bismarck first carload of 1937…Servel Electrolux the gas refrigerator” (Servel 181)

Servel Inc.: Group of men standing in front of the company’s main office; c. 1930s-1940s (Servel 182)

Servel Inc.: Robinette Wood (left) and Lula Forston clean and examine compressor parts; photo dated April 4, 1956 (Knecht 209)

Servel Inc.: Servel Concert Band; c. 1946

Servel Inc.: Refrigeration plant; c. 1946

Servel Inc.: Company executives introducing “The First Servel Water Heaters;” photo dated May 7, 1946 (Servel 120)

Servel Inc.: Unidentified women showing off new refrigerator; c. 1950s (Servel 11)

Single Center Spring Company: Fifth and Locust Sts.; c. 1905 (Knecht 894)

Snow & Wheaton, Inc.: Construction of Ford dealership in downtown Evansville; c. 1930s (Mesker Steel Collection)

Snow & Wheaton, Inc.: Automobile dealership at 25 NW Riverside Dr.; c. 1940s (Mesker Steel Collection)

Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company: C. 1930s (Meyer-Schlamp 131)

Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company: Photo dated August 25, 1988 (10PC-31)

Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company: Employees in office; photo dated 1910 (Center City 42)

St. George Hotel: Photo taken c. 1915, shortly before the building was razed to make room for the McCurdy Hotel on SE First St. (Knecht 528)

St. George Hotel: SE First St. (later, the site of the McCurdy Hotel); at left is Elks Club; photo dated 1910 (Knecht 4047)

St. George Transfer Company: Riverside and Locust St.; razed by 1916 (Knecht 3241)

Standard Brick Company: C. 1915 (Knecht 3246)

Sterling Brewers, Inc.: Photo dated August 10, 1983 (5PC 188)

Sterling Brewery: Fulton and Pennsylvania Sts.; photo dated September 1985 (7PC 31)

Sunbeam Electric Manufacturing Company: Machine shop employees; photo dated April 3, 1933 (Kirsch 2)

Sunbeam Electric Manufacturing Company: New plant on Morgan Ave. near Read St.; c. 1937 (Knecht 781)

Swanson-Nunn Electric Company: Originally occupied by Peerless Laundry; 420 SE Eighth St. (razed c. 2014); c. 1985 (Marchand Collection)

Tennessean Restaurant: 313 Locust st.; 1990s (21PC 21)

Tennessean Restaurant: Opened in 1949 at 313 Locust, the first of two Tennessean restaurants; this photo advertises the closing of the diner on March 3, 1996 (Sonny Brown Collection)

The Oaks: C. 1950s (John Koch 196)

Towerlite Restaurant: N. St. Joseph Ave.; photo dated 1984 (6PC 77)

Triangle Overall Company: 106 Fulton Ave.; c. 1920 (Knecht 3296)

Unidentified Store: Photo dated 1911 (Knecht 4784)

Unidentified Store: Photo taken by Evansville Press photographer on December 9, 1937 (Newman 4)

Union Coal and Feed Company: Photo dated 1936 (Knecht 2019)

Vendome Hotel: 24-30 NW Third St.; photo dated c. 1908-1909 (Knecht 421)

Vendome Hotel: Lounge in lobby; photo dated 1937 (Knecht 2021)

Vendome Hotel: Photo dated April 30, 1972 (18PC 60)

Vendome Hotel: Lobby; c. 1920 (Knecht 3932)

Vulcan Plow Company: C. 1920s (Knecht 3299)

Vulcan Plow Works: Photo taken shortly before the building was razed; dated May 23, 1957 (Knecht 543)

Walk-Over Boot Shop: Main Street; c. 1930 (Knecht 548)

Walsh Baking Company: 400 N. Main St.; early 1900s (Knecht 28)

Weil Packing Company: New boiler house; n.d. (Mesker Steel Collection)

West Side Bank: W. Franklin St. at Eleventh Ave.; c. 1915 (Knecht 3208)

West Side Lumber Company: Early 1900s (Knecht 3302)

Wittekindt Brewing Company: Caption on back of photo: “Evansville’s newest and third brewery;” photo dated November 1937 (Knecht 809)

Woolworth Company: 527 Main Street; c. 1975 (Miscellaneous Collection 3407)

Woolworth Company: 527 Main St.; dated May 19, 1982; razed in 1992 after a fire two years earlier (18PC 48)

Wright Motors: Used car lot at Sixth and Walnut streets; c. early 1950s (Market 2)

Ye Old Virginia Tavern: 200 E. Virginia St.; c. 1950s (John Koch 189)

Zesto Ice Cream: Franklin St. at Baker Ave., looking east; across the street (left) is the Iron workers Union Hall; 1950s (Koch Studio 115)

Zesto Ice Cream: View from Baker Ave., looking across Franklin St.; 1950s (Koch 116)

Zesto Ice Cream: Riverside Dr. at Grand Ave.; photo dated 1989 (11 PC 101)

Ziliak & Schafer Milling Company: 900 Walnut St.; c. 1910 (Knecht 3306)





























































