Terre Haute Postcards - High School
More postcards from my collection...
Terre Haute High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
This unused postcard has the printed text...
16
Published by & M Ottenheimer, Baltimore, Md.
Terre Haute High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on July 20th, 1914, has the printed text...
16
Published by & M Ottenheimer, Balto., MD
Terre Haute High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
This unused postcard has the printed text...
Tom Jones, Cincinnati, O.
Terre Haute High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
This postcard, stamped on the front in Kokomo on 7th May 1908 and on the back in Terre Haute, 6th May 1908 has the text...
Nr C 1796
Published by the American News Company, New York, Leipzig-Berlin-Dresden.
Printed in Germany
Litho-Chrome Trade Mark
Terre Haute High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on 10th June, 1910 has the text...
No. D3945
Published by The Indiana News Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
Dresden - Leipzig - Berlin
Made in Germany
ANC NY
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden
Litho-Chrome Trade Mark logo
UNCO trademark logo
Terre Haute High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on June 18th, 1909 has just the printed text 12169. I have another copy of this postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on April 28th, 1909, that also has the printed text...
Published Exclusively for S. H. Knox & Co.
Made in U.S.A.
Terre Haute High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on August 6th, 1909, has the printed text...
Published Exclusively for S. H. Knox & Co.
Made in U.S.A.
Terre Haute High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on January 3rd, 1912 has the printed text
12169
Published Expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.
Made in U. S. A.
I have another copy of this postcard that was posted in Terre Haute on April 24th, 1912.
Terre Haute has always had a rich educational background and the story of this school is just as interesting. High School classes were given in the old Hook School beginning in 1863, then in 1869 moved to Indiana State Normal School. In 1886, High School classes were moved from that establishment to the one pictured in the postcard, the new High School, which stood on the corner of Seventh and Walnut Streets.
The school was renamed the Wiley High School in 1906 to honour William H. Wiley who had retired as the superintendant of the city schools. The last class graduated here in June 1971 - the same year that Terre Haute South Vigo High School opened. Some of the same photographs were used on postcards for both the High School and Wiley High School - but with different captions. North Vigo and South Vigo high schools eventually replaced Wiley, Garfield and Gerstmeyer schools. The Vigo County Public Library now occupies the site with the Wiley High School cupola located on the grounds.
Indiana State Normal School has it's own interesting history. In 1929 it became the Indiana State Teachers College, in 1961, the Indiana State College before finally became Indiana State University in 1965.
This page created 14th July 2008, last modified 1st November 2009
