Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Mabel in the Backyard

Photograph of Mabel Grubbs standing in the backyard of her parents' house in Decatur, IL.

Tags: backyard, Decatur IL, Grubbs family, Mabel Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection

Photograph of Mabel Roberts in the backyard of a stone house.

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This is the glass negative of Mabel Manor. The photo was taken by Charles Wasson of Wasson Studios in Decatur, IL in the early 1900s.

Tags: c. 1910, Charles Wasson, Charles Wasson Photo Collection, Decatur IL, Glass Negative, Mabel Manor, negative, Wasson Studios, woman

Photograph of Mabel Grubbs Roberts moving hay on a farm in 1922.

Tags: 1922, farm, hay, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection

Photograph of Mabel Roberts on a bench in a garden

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Photograph of Mabel Roberts on horseback in Virginia.

Tags: Boaz, Galax VA, horse, horseback riding, Mabel Roberts, Roberts Family Collection

Photograph of Mabel Grubbs in a farm field.

Tags: farm, farm field, farming, Mabel Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection

Photograph of Mabel Roberts on the stone porch.

Tags: Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Mabel Roberts, Roberts Family Collection, stone porch

Photograph of Mabel Grubbs while on the Starved Rock/Streator, IL trip before marriage.

Tags: Mabel Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection, Starved Rock, Streator IL, trip

Photograph of Mabel Roberts outside of a house

Tags: house, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Mabel Roberts, Roberts family, Roberts Family Collection