Fiscus+Environment

Fiscus and His Environment
//The purpose of this page is to give people some insight into what it was like to be living in Indianapolis and the United States during the time of Charles Fiscus. This will hopefully allow the Charles Fiscus enthusiast to get a better idea for the world Fiscus lived in and how this may have influenced his life and work.//

Search the Indianapolis Newspapers Database provided by the Indiana State Library to find out about what topics were covered in the Indianapolis press between 1870 and 1890. [|Indianapolis Newspapers Database]

Here is a link to the New York Time archives search index if your are interested in findning out what topics may have been more mainstream press during Chales Fiscus life. You may also want to search to see if any news from Indianapolis was covered in the New York Times duing the Charles Fiscus era. [|New York Times Archives Search]

Here is a link to the Indiana State Archives Photographs page if you are intertested in getting a feel for the way Indianapolis and its people looked during Charles Fiscus' life. [|Indiana State Archives Photographs]

Here is the link to the Hyper History Online database if you are interested in taking a look at the influential people living during the time of Charles Fiscus. You can view what other famous artists were prominent during Fiscus' life, or take a look at people from science and politics that Fiscus may have been influenced by or interested in. [|Hyper History Online]

Charles Fiscus lived in America during a very interesting period of drastic change in American culture called the Gilded Age. Here is a great database covering a wide variety of cultural themes during the Guilded Age in America. Take some time to study this important period in our history as it will give you great insight into this era that shaped Charles Fiscus. (This is a subscription database, but they offer a thirty day free trial -- it is well worth the effort) [|The Gilded Age]

Personalities
In addition, I thought this would be a good place—or at least the most logical place—to present some information about the people who lived during the same time as Fiscus, accociated with him, and influenced his work. I will begin with Frank Edwin Scott:

To view some of Scott's work, please click this link: [|Frank Edwin Scott]

[|William Jefferson Forsyth] (1854 - 1935)

[|Richard Gruelle]

For more information on some of Fiscus' contemporaries see the [|Hoosier Group]