Monthly Archives: October 2014

Left Side Panel, Multipurpose Room, Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

This is the panel directly opposite the main stage opening from the previous posting. It appears to represent a Native American chief offering a gift of corn to a settler.

Dan Grigg Enterprise, Co., Mitchell, So. Dak.


The description states:
THE WORLD’S ONLY CORN PALACE
MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA
One of the many panels on the inside of the world’s only Corn Palace. These panels are made from natural colored grains and grasses. The entire building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10,000. The annual festival is held the last week in September, but the building is open FREE the year around. It is one of the most outstanding exhibits of nature’s wonderful colors blended into interesting designs and pictures by local decorators.
–This panel is unusual in that it includes a corner section as part of the design, instead of being completely flat. The image likely dates to the 1940s.

Right Side Panel, Multipurpose Room, Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

This image features the detail of the right side panel of the multipurpose room shown in the previous post. Careful examination of the full-sized image shows the numerous corn cobs used in the creation of the image.

Dan Grigg Enterprise, Co., Mitchell, So. Dak.


The description states:
THE WORLD’S ONLY CORN PALACE
MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA
One of the many panels on the inside of the worlds only Corn Palace. These panels are made from natural colored grains and grasses. The entire building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10,000. The annual festival is held the last week in September, but the building is open FRREE the year around. It is one of the most outstanding exhibits of nature’s wonderful colors blended into interesting designs and pictures by local decorators.
–This image appears to depict two hunters in search of their prey. The image likely dates to the 1940s.

Multipurpose Room, Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

This image is of a large hall constructed for many purposes. The floor is marked to be used as a basketball court, and one wall has an elevated stage for performances and presentations.

Dan Grigg Enterprise, Co., Mitchell, So. Dak.


The description states:
THE WORLD’S ONLY CORN PALACE
MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA
This view is one of the stage that is housed in the world’s only Corn Palace. It is one of the largest stages in the Midwest. It is on this stage that the annual festival show is held. The big show is held the last week in September, but the building is open FREE the year around.
–The seating in front of the stage is clearly movable for shows where the focus is on the stage.
This image is likely from the 1940s.

Corn Palace Exterior, Mitchell, South Dakota

This image is of another year’s decorations on the front entrance of the Mitchell, South Dakota Corn Palace. Like many such images of this era, this is a colorized version of a black and white original photograph.

Dan Grigg Enterprise, Co., Mitchell, So. Dak.


The description states:
THE WORLD’S ONLY CORN PALACE
MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA
This building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10,000 in natural colored grains and grasses. The annual festival is held the last week in September but the building is open FREE the year around. It is the most outstanding exhibit of nature’s wonderful colors blended into interesting designs and pictures by skilled decorators.
–The building is currently undergoing considerable remodeling to allow for larger murals and signage. The cars shown in the image indicate this photo is from the 1940s.

1951 Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

This image begins a series of card featuring the world famous Corn Palace, a building completely covered in decorations made of split corn cobs and other grains.

Dan Grigg Enterprise, Co., Mitchell, So. Dak.


The description states:
THE WORLD’S ONLY CORN PALACE, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, is freshly redecorated each year during Indian Summer. It requirers between two and three thousand bushels of corn, all of which appears in its natural color. The individual cobs, with the corn on, are sawed lengthwise by small power saws, the halves then nailed, flat side in, to wooden panels which are fastened to the brick wall sot he building. The annual festival is held in the last week in September but the building is open FREE the year around.
–The marking on the building and the cars shown in the image both indicate the image is from the year 1951.

Maumee River Bridge, Ohio

This image is of a portion of the Ohio Turnpike, a toll road built between 1949 and 1955. It specifically features the Maumee River Bridge crossing, showing the separation of traffic.

Curteichcolor Art-Creation from Color Transparency


The description states:
OTP-9 — THE MAUMEE RIVER BRIDGE ON OHIO’S 326,000,000 TURNPIKE
This mammoth bridge is 1,394 feet long. Twin bridges carry the roadways wherever the Turnpike crosses over other highways, rivers or railroads, to preserve the minimum separation between the east and west bound lanes.
–This postcard was used and is dated April 27, 1956. The black streaks on the sky are cancellation marks.

Hotel Sinton, Cincinnati, Ohio

This is an artist’s depiction of the large and imposing Hotel Sinton, once a landmark in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The hotel was built in 1907 and demolished in 1967. It was located on the southeast corner of 4th and Vine Streets.

Lithoed in U.S.A. by Letterhead & Check Corp., St. Louis, Mo.


The description states simply:
700 Rooms HOTEL SINTON 700 Baths
Modern • New • Clean
–This was the hotel where the conspiracy of White Sox baseball players met to organize their effort to lose the World Series, known as the Black Sox scandal.
This card likely dates from the 1940s.

Union Station Interior, Cincinnati, OH

This image proceeds to the interior of Union Station in Cincinnati, Ohio. Shown are the curving walls with several ticket windows, a vendor’s window at the far left, and the remarkable and historic murals above. These windows still exist in this form, though they (and the vendor window) sit locked and unused. The murals are unchanged.

Tichnor Quality Views, Made Only By Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, Mass.


The description states:
The main concourse of the Union Terminal, built at a cost of $41,000,000, is semi-circular in shape, and the right and left hand sides of the dome contain the largest silhouette mosaics in the world, the left hand mural portraying the history of transportation, and the right hand the growth of Cincinnati. It also contains information and ticket windows, retail shops, restaurant facilities, etc.
–This card likely dates from the 1940s.

Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

This image shows the imposing entrance to the Union Terminal building for railroad passengers built in the 1930s in Cincinnati, Ohio. Built at the height of the Great Depression, it is a national landmark for both its art deco construction and the murals in the interior. It is now a museum and iMax theater.

Kraemer Art Company, Cincinnati, Ohio


The back of the card has no description. This image is likely an artist’s rendition instead of a black and white photo colored for printing. The image likely dates from the 1940s.

Terrace Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio

This is an image of the building known at the time as the Terrace Plaza Hotel, named for the large terrace adjoining the restaurant and bar several stories above street level.

Tichnor Quality Views, Made Only By Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, Mass.


The description states:
TERRACE PLAZA HOTEL
Cincinnati, Ohio
400 outside rooms, each with tub, shower, circulating ice water, 6-station radio. Four restaurants. Entire hotel completely air conditioned. Television in all public rooms. R. C. Kroger, Resident Manager, Max Schulman, General Manager.
–The hotel has changed hands during it existence, and is considered a monument to Modernist design and construction. It is operated under the name Hilton Hotel Netherland today. This image is from the 1940s. The card was used and is dated February 15th, 1950.