Female Influence

ID: 2034 ~ Source: Photo Courtesy of Indiana University Libraries' Archives of Traditional Music, Hoagy Carmichael Collections 1920-1981 ~ Date: 1918

This file appears in: Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington

By the summer of 1918 the Carmichael family had moved multiple times and was once again back in Bloomington. Hoagy's sister Martha, his mother, Lida and his sisters Joanne and Georgia are pictured here in front of their Bloomington home.

This file appears in: Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington

Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington

By Monroe County History Center

In his unpublished memoir Jazzbanders, Hoagy said of his hometown, “Bloomington offered everything. Creeks, ponds, rabbits, circuses and wide open spaces. I could cross a dusty street here in my bare feet without the aid of a traffic cop.” The…