In Search of Maiden Names

In Search of Maiden Names

I am in the process of digitizing and cataloging a collection of nearly 100 historic Junior League of Indianapolis (JLI) member portraits, which my coworker Matt Holdzkom wrote about in his blog Haunting and Elegant last year. As Matt noted, the photographs are a “rare visual record of these women” at the center of the Indianapolis’s civic and social life in the early to mid-1900s. We consider these photographs rare because they are a public rec…