Terre Haute Postcards - Collett Park (4)

More postcards from my collection...

Children's Play Ground, Collett Park, Terre Haute, Ind.

This unused postcard has the text...

R-32845
Published by the Indianapolis Engraving & Electrotyping Co., Indianapois, Ind.

Coaster Slide Manufacturered by
American Playground Device & Swing Co.,
Terre Haute, Ind.

The Indianapolis Engraving & Electrotyping Company was formed in 1804 with Edward Mason was president, D. G. Wiley as vice president and A. G. Marshall as secretary and treasurer. In 1907, H. W. Ballard was president ; E. C. Ropkey, secretary, and W. S. Allen, treasurer. The company became Ropkey Graphics and was bought by the Harding Poorman Group in 2003.

The American Playground Device & Swing Company was formed in Terre Haute in 1911 on the east side of Eighteenth Street, just north of Maple Avenue. The company's officers were W. H. Freeman, L. D. Townsend, Otto Fries and George Krietenstrien. The company moved to Anderson, Indiana in 1915 and became the world's largest manufacturers of playground equipment. In 1951, the company bought an entire town! Nahma, on the Michigan / Wisconsin border was a lumber town and after appeals for help from the community after the sawmills closed the company bought it for $250,000. The company closed in 1988.

Sources:

Life Magazine: October 22, 1951
Ludington Daily News: September 22, 1951

Collett Park and North Ninth Street, Terre Haute, Ind.

This unused postcard has the printed text...

R-24749
The Model
Unco Registered Trade Mark logo

I have another copy of this postcard, without the Unco trademark logo that was posted in Terre Haute in 1913.

Collett Park and North Ninth Street, Terre Haute, Ind.

This postcard was was addressed to someone in Iowa and stamped in ???dale, West Virginia on October 18th, 1919, has the printed text...

R-24749
The Model

Collett Park Place, Terre Haute, Ind.

This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on February 16th, 1914, has no other printed text.

Collett Park Entrance, Terre Haute, Ind.

This unused, unusually sized postcard, 6.5" x 2.25" rather than the more usual 5.25" x 3.25", has the printed text...

6566
The Art Mfg. Co., Zanesville, O.

Collett Park was established on 21 acres of land given to Terre Haute by businessman Josephus Collett in 1883, making it the city's oldest park. It is bounded by Collett Avenue, Ninth Street, Maple Avenue and Seventh Street. The park attracted many, especially Rose Polytechnic Institute professors, to build gracious homes on Ninth Street. The pavilion and refreshment stand is the oldest structure in the park and was designed by J. Merrill Sherman.

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