Contest Spectators

ID: 315 ~ Source: Photograph Courtesy of Indiana State Archives, Indiana Commission on Public Records. ~ Date: 1930

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The heavily-attended and popular annual Better Babies Contests were sponsored by the Indiana State Board of Health and supervised by Ada E. Schweitzer, M.D. Earlier in her career, she had worked in the Board's Laboratory of Hygiene and had been a colleague of Dr. Helene Knabe, whose story is also on this tour. This image is from the Better Babies Contest of 1930.

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Hook's Drug Store

By Gail Gráinne Whitchurch & Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology

Hook's Drug Stores were Indiana fixtures throughout most of the 20th century. Founder John A. Hook opened his first Indianapolis store in 1900 in a now-demolished building at 1101 S. East Street in what is now the Fountain Square neighborhood.…