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Otto Bomball and Unknown Men

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Photograph of Otto Bomball and unknown men

Tags: Besalke Family Collection, Bomball family, McGuire, Otto Bomball, Rossville IL, unknown men

Otto Bomball's Shoe Repair Shop

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Postcard of Otto Bomball standing in his shoe repair shop.

Tags: Besalke Family Collection, Bomball family, Otto Bomball, shoe repair shop

Otto, Mable, Mother, and Beryl

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Postcard of Otto, Mable, and Beryl Bomball with Augusta Strocher sitting in a parlor.

Tags: Augusta Strocher, Beryl Bomball, Besalke Family Collection, Bomball family, Mable Bomball, Otto Bomball, parlor, postcard, Strocher family

Out at the Falls: Niagara Falls in 1919

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Photograph of Pauline Snyder standing at Niagara Falls in 1919.

Tags: 1919, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Niagara Falls, Pauline Snyder, Roberts Family Collection, waterfalls

Out Reach Program - September 1995

This is a description of the Decatur Pubic Library Out Reach Program. This report explains the program using home services, bookmobiles, deposit collection, RSVP volunteers, extension librarian at nursing homes, high rise facilities, other sites. It…

Over the River

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Photograph of the river from overhead. Possibly taken from the tram car in RF301.

Tags: Mabel Grubbs Roberts, River, Roberts Family Collection

Over the River

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Photograph of a river from overhead. Possibly taken from the tram system in RF301.

Tags: Mabel Grubbs Roberts, outdoors, overhead, River, Roberts Family Collection

Ox Cart in Pensacola, FL 1911

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Photograph of an ox cart full of wood in Pensacola, FL in 1911.

Tags: 1911, Ella Foulk Converse, Foulk family, ox cart, Pensacola FL, vacation

P.D. Phillips - Children

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These are the glass negatives of P.D. Phillips children: a boy, girl, and baby. The photos were taken by Charles Wasson of Wasson Studios in Decatur, IL in the early 1900s.

Tags: baby, boy, c. 1910, Charles Wasson, Charles Wasson Photo Collection, Children, Decatur IL, girl, Glass Negative, negative, P.D. Phillips, Wasson Studios

Painting Stripes on Pavement

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Man running a paint stripping machine.

Tags: 1920's, Decatur IL., Herald and Review, Machinery, Macon County, maintenance, Paint Stripping Machine, Road Stripping, Roads

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