Indiana Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
for educators and home schoolers; themed decor in studio or office.

• Knute Rockne quote poster

Cardinals are passerine birds (perching songbirds) native to both North and South America. Cardinals with their red plummage are a popular bird - they are also the state bird of Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia.

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Peonies, the Indiana State Flower, are herbaceous perennial plants with large, often fragrant blooms, ranging from red to white or yellow, that display in late spring and early summer.

The name peony is based on Paeon (or Paean), a student of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine and healing. When Asclepius became jealous of his pupil Zeus saved him by turning him into the peony flower.

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• Peony Plants & Seeds

Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron Tulipifera) Named for the Tulip-Like Shape of its Flower, Photographic Print

The tulip tree, the State Tree of Indiana, is a large, diciduous member of the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae) that grows throughout the state. The tulip tree is also called the yellow poplar.

The tulip tree can grow to more than 165 feet (50 meters). It is a valuable timber tree due to its growing habit of oftern having no limbs until it reaches 80–100 feet in height.

Tulip poplar flowers are pale green or yellow with an orange band on the tepals. They generally produce large quantities of nectar making it a major honey plant in the eastern United States.

The tulip tree is also the state tree of Tennessee and Kentucky.

Showing Both Sides of the Firefly, Also Called Lightning Bugs, Photographic Print

Fireflies, also known as lightening bugs, are beetles that produce light in their abdomen to attract mates. The males fly about flashing, a waiting female will flash back if she is interested. The firefly even has a song - Glow Little Glowworm, The Mills Brothers hit of the 1950s.

The Firefly is the Pennsylvania and Tennessee State Insect and proposed as the Indiana State Insect.

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Studebaker, a US automobile manufacturer located in South Bend, started as a maker of wagons in 1852 and closed 1966.

Indiana has a 24 mile shoreline on Lake Michigan.

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Mound-Builders Gathering their Crops of Maize and Squash, Giclee Print

People of the Mississippian culture built a town on the Ohio River eight miles southeast of Evansville c. 1100 CE. Known as Angel Mounds today, the site was designated a National Historic Landmark and is one of the best-preserved prehistoric Native American sites in the United States.

Vincennes, founded in 1732 by French settlers from Canada as a part of Louisiana, is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in Indiana and one of the oldest settlements west of the Appalachians.

After the French and Indian War (Seven Years War) Vincennes was under British rule until the American Revolution. In 1779 George Rogers Clark, the highest ranking American military officer on the frontier, led militia in the capture of Kaskaskia and Vincennes in present day Illinois and Indiana respectively, which weakened the British presence in the Old Northwest.

FYI - George Rogers Clark was the older brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition into the Missouri Purchase.

• George Rogers Clark and the War in the West

Benjamin Harrison, Giclee Print

President Benjamin Harrison (R)
(23rd President, 1889-1893)
b. 8-20-1833; North Bend, Ohio
d. 3-13-1901; Indianapolis, IN

Benjamin Harrison quotes ~
• “I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
• “We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”
• “When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?”

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James Dean
b. 2-8-1931; Marion, IN
d. 9-30-1955; car accident near Cholame, CA

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

James Whitcomb Riley
b. 10-7-1849; Greenfield, IN
d. 7-22-1916

James Whitcomb Riley, known as the Hoosier Poet for his use of the Indiana dialect, wrote humorous and sentimental poetry, often regarded for children.

James Whitcomb Riley quotes ~
• “It is no use to grumble and complain. It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.”
• “The ripest peach is highest on the tree.”
• “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
• ...“An' little Orphant Annie says,
when the blaze is blue,
An' the lamp-wick sputters,
an' the wind goes woo-oo!
An' you hear the crickets quit,
an' the moon is gray,
An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew
is all squenched away,--
You better mind yer parunts,
an' yer teachurs fond an' dear,
An' churish them 'at loves you,
an' dry the orphant's tear,
An' he'p the pore an' needy ones
'at clusters all about,
Er the Gobble-uns 'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!”

• The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley
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