Indiana. National Guard

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs and postcards related to the Mexican Expedition ranging from 1916 to 1917, taken in Knox, Indiana and Llano Grande, Santa Maria, Brownsville and other points in Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border, many depicting the activities of the 2nd Indiana Infantry Regiment. There are also two copies of a photograph of Company H of the Indiana National Guard led by Captain Henry F. Schricker, in front of the Knox, Indiana courthouse circa June 1916.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a photograph album compiled by the Indiana Historical Commission with images from Parke County, Indiana ranging from August to December 1918, regarding groups of men from the county, often wearing badges or armbands, who enlisted in the U.S. armed forces or the local guard during World War I. The men in the photographs are unidentified and most of them were taken on the steps of the Parke County Courthouse in Rockville. There is one photograph with four African-American...