Browse Items (27 total)

  • Collection: Photo File: Recreation

Photograph from the Red Letter Days Pageant

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Photograph from the Red Letter Days pageant taken on August 9th, 1940.

Photograph of a Baseball Meeting

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Photograph taken on August 23rd of 1944 of a group of men at a baseball meeting.

Photograph of a Group of Swimmers

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Photograph of a group of wimmers during the summer in 1912.

Photograph of a High Jump

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Photograph at an unknown location of a man doing a high jump taken on May 22nd, 1909.

Photograph of a Roque Tourney

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Photograph of a roque tourney taken on August 6th, 1946. Roque is a form of crochet played on a hard surface or court surrounded by a bank.

Photograph of Boy Flying a Kite

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Photograph of a young boy flying a kite taken March 10, 1956.

Photograph of Child Flying Kite

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Photograph of a child flying a kite taken March 10th, 1956.

Photograph of Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Landis at Fans Field

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Photograph of Kenesaw Landis with a group of men at Fans Field in Decatur IL. Landis was the first appointed Commissioner of Baseball in 1920 and served until his death in 1944.

Photograph of Decatur's Charles Dressen

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Photograph of Charles Dressen, who was recruited from Decatur and went on to play major league baseball for the Cincinnati Reds in 1919. This photograph was taken On September 24th, 1934.