Browse Items (8552 total)

Photograph of Saratoga Club Gambling Raid

http://omeka.decaturlibrary.org/files/original/1296ccf1d73b0425c7f91861a96d2bc9.jpg
Photograph of the Saratoga Club gambling police raid in 1938.

Photograph of Sailboats on Lake Decatur

http://omeka.decaturlibrary.org/files/original/28d95abcc354b94f37d1ff1cc2ddc664.jpg
Photograph of sailboats on Lake Decatur taken June 7, 1951.

Photograph of Richard Evans, the First City Librarian

http://omeka.decaturlibrary.org/files/original/af649106895683a2c0440baeab857767.jpg
Photograph of Richard Evans, married to Alice Glore; he was the First City Librarian starting in 1875 through 1881, when he unexpectedly died.

Photograph of Reverend W. L. Staub

http://omeka.decaturlibrary.org/files/original/d43928122efd9f6b4d8a343b66ff3436.jpg
Photograph of Rev. W. L. Staub. Former pastor Westminster Presbyterian church in Decatur, 1908-1912. First pastor of this church after its organization October 1908. Left Decatur for pastorate in Duluth, Minnesota. (Information from clips- no other…

Photograph of Rev. James Walton McDonald

http://omeka.decaturlibrary.org/files/original/bcc97dbaca281245c567467a0c728760.jpg
Photograph of Rev. James Walton McDonald. (born 1869; died 6/16/1951) Presbyterian pastor in Decatur 23 years, leaving in 1923 for Kansas City, MO. Came to Decatur in 1901 from Logansport, IN. First pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church,…