Ball Brothers Float - Info Sheet - Ph12351-Info-Sheet.txt Create Date: 20 Jan 2019 ============================================ Picture File Name: Ph12351-005.tif Date of Photo: 30 Sept 1927 Photographer: Otto Sellers Place: Muncie, Indiana Size of Picture: 7 x 8.5 inches Norma Haas Robbins (1919-2004) stated that she had seen this float when she was a girl of 8 years old The photograph belonged to her parents. I remember seeing the pieces of this float in a Ball Corporation warehouse on Macedonia Avenue about 1990. Ball Brothers Float: Name of the Float: We Jar The World/ 1887-1927 End of Float: Ball Brothers Company Muncie Indiana 1887-1927 Front of Float: Left Side: 1887 - Picture of the original plant?, with "86" above it- Established 40 Years in Muncie Ball Products/ Glass - Zinc - Paper Right side: Factories at Muncie Ind. Wichta Falls Tex. Hillsboro Ill. Huntington Ala. Sapulpa Okla. Noblesville Ind. Right Side: 1927 ============================================== *** Notes: 19 Jan 2019, 105pm: I sent a copy of Ph12351-005.tif (1200dpi, Color) and this file to info@IndianaAlbumcom via wetransfer.com - I did not upload Ph12351-005.tif to Amazon Cloud Storage or to Google Drive ========================================================== *** Newspaper Coverage: - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253820 - Muncie Morning Star, 1 Oct 1927, page 1 - "Queen and Court in Centennial Parade" (Picture) - "10,000 School Pupils are in Line of March" - Muncie Morning Star, 1 Oct 1927, page 3: https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253828 - Col. 3: The entire parade required an hour and fifteen minutes. The first division took but five minutes; the county school children, ten minutes; the city schools twenty minutes, and the remaining time by the industrial division. Search (1 Oct 1927): https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=Parade&ymd=1927-10-01&offset=2&t=3757 Newspapers.com - 1927 Parade - Muncie Delaware County Centennial Celebration Parade - 30 Sept 1927 "Centennial Parade to be Spectacular" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251409615 - Muncie Morning Star, 2 Sept 1927, page 8, Col. 4 "Parade Plans Announced" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253155 - Muncie Morning Star, 24 Sept 1927, page 16, Col. 1 "Movie Company to 'Shoot' Centennial Week Scenes" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253558 - Muncie Morning Star, 27 Sept 1927, page2, Col. 3, 4 "Announce Parade Formation Plans for Townhship Schools" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253558 - Muncie Morning Star, 27 Sept 1927, page2, Col. 3, 4 "Miss Delaware Crowned Queen of Centennial" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253600 - Muncie Morning Star, 28 Sept 1927, page 1, Col. 8 "Halt is Called to Centennial" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253676 - Muncie Morning Star, 29 Sept 1927, page 1, Col. 5 - Parade postponed to 30 Sept 1927 at 2 pm