The second 1952 card in the Apple's Drugs series of Curt Teich "C.T. Photo-Finish" cards, production number 2C346. It is an aerial photograph perhaps taken looking toward the southwest from about where Mulberry Street crosses Brock Creek -- a viewpoint that is about directly opposite that of the 1908 panorama. In fact, the white spot in the trees above the tennis courts at the center of this card is the roof of the I. I. St. John house, which probably served as the vantage point for the photograph used for the older card. The St. John house, a high Victorian structure that is one of Salem's more imposing homes, was built by a minister of the Presbyterian church well before the turn of the century. DePauw Park was a gift to the town by the DePauws, a family with Salem connections. Washington C. DePauw operated an extensive glass works in New Albany which manufactured "DePauw's American Plate Glass." Through the 1870s and 1880s DePauw was regarded as the wealthiest man in Indiana -- a title he shared back and forth with William Culbertson, the dry goods merchant who also lived in New Albany and built the local landmark, the Culbertson Mansion. In 1876 DePauw became a member of the board of directors of Asbury College in Greencastle. His donation of some $600,000 to the school through the troubled economic times of the '70s led the board to rename the school DePauw University in his honor in 1884. (1998, updated 2000)

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