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Mary Catherine and Ernest Anthony on July 4, 1943
Photograph of Mary Catherine and Ernest Anthony on July 4, 1943.
Marjorie Wittke with Ernie and Mary Catherine
Photograph of Marjorie Wittke with Ernie and Mary Catherine on July 4, 1943.
Brig and Mrs. McClellan of the Salvation Army
Negative of Brig and Mrs. McClellan sitting at a table in their Salvation Army uniforms in 1943.
Clyde Beatty Circus
Photograph of the Clyde Beatty Circus in August of 1943 showing a crowd of people looking at tigers.
Photograph from Armistice Day Parade in 1943
Photograph from the Armistice Day Parade in November of 1943.
Photographs from the Jalopy Parade of 1943
Photos from the Jalopy Parade in April of 1943. Jalopy cars that would later be used for scrap metal were paraded around downtown to raise awareness for the use of scrapping old cars for the war effort. Decatur the first city to do this and was used…
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Henrietta Graybil
These are the glass negatives of Henrietta Graybil. The photos were taken by Charles Wasson of Wasson Studios in Decatur, IL in the early 1900s.