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Photographs from the Morehouse & Wells Fire

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Several photographs from the August 22, 1909 Morehouse & Wells fire that took out nearly a block of downtown Decatur businesses. The fire started in the Morehouse & Wells building on East Main and destroyed half the block bounded by Merchant,…

Tags: 1909, Bachrach, Bachrach Building, Central Park, Cheap Charley, Clark, Decatur IL, Downtown, Elwood, Elwood & Handlin Store, Fires, Handlin, Hirsch, Hirsch Store, International Stereograph, International Stereograph Co, J.K. Stafford, Lincoln Square, Main, merchant, Morehouse, Morehouse & Wells, Photo File: Fires, Prairie, Rodgers, Rodgers & Clark, Rodgers & Clark Store, Shade-Lokey, Shade-Lokey Shoe Store, Transfer House, Water, Wells

Photo of Staley Bears Football Team

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Photograph of the Staley Bears Football Team taken in 1920.

Tags: 1920, Adins, Blacklock, Business, Clark, Decatur IL., Drssen, Feitchinger, Football, Gepford, Grain Companies, Halas, High, Ingwersen, Johnson, Jones, Koehler, Lanum, Lotshaw, Mac Wherter, May, Mintun, Pearc, Petty, Photo File: Business, Shank, Staley Bears, Staley Manufacturing, Sternaman, Trafton, Veach, Young

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Mrs. Herman Post

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Photograph of Mrs. Herman Post and young girl holding a toy rabbit Mrs. Post (born 7/13/1850 in St. Clair Co., IL.: married H. (Herman) Post 1868;…

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