Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Bomball Woman

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Photograph of an unknown female member of the Bomball family.

Tags: Besalke Family Collection, Bomball family, Decatur IL, East End Gallery, unknown woman

Photograph of Budd Florey (d. 7/25/1916). Florey was a tinner by trade, and a member of Greer and Florey, who had a tin shop on N. Main St. next to the Arcade Hotel. The shop was destroyed in the Decatur Hotel and Arcade hotel fire, and the firm…

Tags: 500 E. Marietta St., Arcade Hotel, biography, Budd Florey, Decatur Herald and Review, Decatur IL, Decatur lodges, East End Gallery, Greer and Florey, N. Main St., Photo File: Biography, tinner, Wabash Railroad

Henry C. Hagen

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Photograph of Henry C. Hagen (d. 8/20/1942). He was a member of the last city council before the commission form of government was established in 1911. He was a machinist who worked for Union Iron Works, Mueller Co., and Williams Sealing Corp. …

Tags: 4th ward, 602 E. Decatur St., alderman, biography, City Council, Decatur Herald and Review, Decatur IL, East End Gallery, fourth ward, Henry C. Hagen, machinist, Mueller Co., Odd Fellows Lodge No. 65, Photo File: Biography, Union Iron Works, Williams Sealing Corp.

Why Librarians Matter - August 2009

This is an email received by Lee Ann Fisher from Ed Cook. Mr. Cook it thanking a bookmobile driver for changing his life in high school and instilling the desire to read to him.

Tags: August 2009, board of directors, Board of Trustees, bookmobile, bookmobile driver, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, Ed Cook, email, Lee Ann Fisher, thank you