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1972 aerial of the old Indiana University site at Second Street and College

image number:

P0026393

description:

Top of this image is north.

This image shows the original site of Indiana University in the block between Second & First Streets, and Walnut Avenue and Morton Street. This is now (2017) the site of Kroger grocery store, Wendy's Hamburgers, Seminary Park, the U.S. Post Office (formerly Ponderosa Steakhouse), ACE Pawn Shop, Bloomington Car Wash Center, and Rally's Hamburgers.

Second street is at the top of the photo, Walnut at right, First at bottom, and Morton at left. College Avenue is at top center. The large nearly square building at upper left is the old Bloomington High School Gymnasium. The building just to the lower right of that is the First University Building (a.k.a. Old College Building) built in 1855. The building to the right of that is Bloomington High School built in 1914.

This is a detail from a 1972 aerial image of Bloomington that can be found on the Indiana Spatial Data Portal's Historic Bloomington Aerial Photos site here: http://gis.iu.edu/datasetInfo/local/bloomington_historic.php

The specific image number at that site is 72-38 (NOTE: the original images are housed with the Bloomington City Engineers.)

date taken:

1972 April 17

donor image number:

72-38

use restrictions:

Any and all requests for use of this image should be made through the entities noted in the description field above.

topic:

Aerial views

city:

Bloomington

state:

Indiana

other place name:

Seminary Square

other place name:

Seminary Park

series:

Buildings & Grounds

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