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Hugh Baker's Oral History

This is the oral history of Hugh Baker. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on June 28, 1985. The interview includes his time working for the Mueller Company, and his father's dairy farm.

Tags: 1985, alcoholism committees, automobiles, Betty Turnell, building homes, changes to milking, Chatanooga TN, childhood, City Milk Inspector, civic boards, company town, Construction, Cows, Dairy Farm, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Decatur Mental Health Center, diptheria, electricity, epidemic, family life, farm, farmhouse, farming, Great Depression, harvest dinners, hired hands, hobbies, Hugh Baker, interview, June 1985, Liberty Bonds, marine engineering, Mary W. French School, mechanical engineering, Milk Delivery, Mueller City, Mueller Company, Mueller family, Mueller IL, Mueller Pottery Plant, naval architecture, oral history, pasteurization, Plant 3, public parks, recording, Recreation, retirement, Roosevelt Junior High School, Salvation Army board, sanitary conditions, South Shores, sterilization, tenant's house, The Mueller Land Improvement Trust, University of Michigan, World War I

Herd of Cows

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This is the glass negative of a heard of cows in a field. The photo was taken by Charles Wasson of Wasson Studios in Decatur, IL in the early 1900s.

Tags: c. 1915, Charles Wasson, Charles Wasson Photo Collection, cow herd, Cows, Decatur IL, farm, field, Glass Negative, herd, herd of cows, negative, Wasson Studios

Family with Pumpkins

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Postcard of the Besalke family with pumpkins

Tags: Besalke family, Besalke Family Collection, farm, postcard, pumpkins, unknown people

Dr. C.R. Cassity's Oral History

This is the oral history of Dr. C.R. Cassity. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on May 19, 1989. The interview includes his family and career in mathematics.

Tags: 1989, Adelia Sinkov, algebra, American Mathematical Society, Army Security Agency, Betty Turnell, cathedral, Chief Signal Officer of the Army, childhood, Community Concert Association, computer department, cryptanalysis, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Dr. C.R. Cassity, electrical contracting business, Elizabeth Smith, Environmental Research Corporation, family life, farm, farming, first street lighting, General Electric, geometry, Hudson River, interview, Masters Degree, mathematics, May 1989, Michigan State University, Millikin University, missile and space division, Music, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New York City, one-room country school, oral history, Orange NJ, Ph.D, publications, recording, Red Cross, SIAM, St. Paul MN, The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, tunnel, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Westinghouse, William F. Friedman

Aunt Molly's Farm

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Photograph of Aunt Molly at her farm with animals.

Tags: animals, Aunt Molly, Ella Foulk Converse, farm, Foulk family

A Wagon Full of Pumpkins

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Postcard of the Besalke family with a wagon full of pumpkins on a farm.

Tags: Besalke family, Besalke Family Collection, farm, horses, postcard, pumpkins, unknown people, wagon

A Farmer's Picnic - Wonderful Eats (1915)

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Photograph of a family sitting around a large picnic table. Photo is labeled "A Farmer's Picnic - Wonderful Eats" on the back.

Tags: family, farm, farmer's picnic, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, picnic, Roberts Family Collection

"Warm Meals At All Hours"

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Photograph of a mother pig with her piglets on a farm. The caption on the back says: "Warm meals at all hours".

Tags: Adkins family, biography, farm, Photo File: Biography, pig, piglets

"The Good Old Times on the Farm"

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Photograph of the Adkins-Stevenson farmstead in Bement, IL. This was the home of Charles Adkins, former Speaker of the House of Illlinois. He was a farmer, lecturer, educator, and politician.

Tags: Adkins family, Adkins-Stevenson farmstead, Bement IL, biography, Charles Adkins, farm, farmhouse, house, Photo File: Biography, Speaker of the House of Illinois

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