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Photograph of a Decatur High School Postcard
Photographs of a Decatur High School postcard from an unknown date. This is the first high school building, built in 1869 at Broadway and North Streets in Decatur before the second high school was building was built on N. Franklin Street in 1911.
Photograph of a covered bridge, Macon County, IL.
Photograph of Covered bridge taken on 1/20/1907, from the Oklahoma District. Print from J. K. Stafford collection of negatives taken in the late 1890's and early 1900's which were in possession of Mr. and Mrs. Jack French of Cerro Gordo in…
Photograph of a Carl Sandburg Poem with Matching Article
Photograph of a Carl Sandburg poem about Decatur and an article about the Poem taken in October of 2002.
Photograph of a boy and a woman - 1920s
This is a small photograph of a boy and a woman in an ornate matting.
Photograph of a Baseball Meeting
Photograph taken on August 23rd of 1944 of a group of men at a baseball meeting.
Photograph of 990 W. King
Photograph of 990 W. King. This house was built in 1907 and 1908 by Joseph Tolladay who was a bricklayer. His widow lived there until 1941. In 1942 it was listed as being owned by Jacob Noble who still owned it in 1954.
Photograph of 925 N. Main St.
Photograph of 925 N. Main St. This house was built in 1865 and 1866 by J.Q. Brown who lived there until about 1874 when he sold it to Dr. W.A. Barnes. Dr. Barnes sold it in 1891 to James D. Tait, who left it to his son, Joseph S. Tait. In 1921 the…
