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Photo of Clay Robinson Dairy

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Photograph of the Farmers inspect herd at the Clay Robinson Dairy, photo taken 8/26/1938.

Tags: 1938, BS362, Business, Cows, Dairies, Dairy, farm, Farmers, Macon County

Hugh Baker's Oral History

This is the oral history of Hugh Baker. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on June 28, 1985. The interview includes his time working for the Mueller Company, and his father's dairy farm.

Tags: 1985, alcoholism committees, automobiles, Betty Turnell, building homes, changes to milking, Chatanooga TN, childhood, City Milk Inspector, civic boards, company town, Construction, Cows, Dairy Farm, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Decatur Mental Health Center, diptheria, electricity, epidemic, family life, farm, farmhouse, farming, Great Depression, harvest dinners, hired hands, hobbies, Hugh Baker, interview, June 1985, Liberty Bonds, marine engineering, Mary W. French School, mechanical engineering, Milk Delivery, Mueller City, Mueller Company, Mueller family, Mueller IL, Mueller Pottery Plant, naval architecture, oral history, pasteurization, Plant 3, public parks, recording, Recreation, retirement, Roosevelt Junior High School, Salvation Army board, sanitary conditions, South Shores, sterilization, tenant's house, The Mueller Land Improvement Trust, University of Michigan, World War I

Herd of Cows

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This is the glass negative of a heard of cows in a field. The photo was taken by Charles Wasson of Wasson Studios in Decatur, IL in the early 1900s.

Tags: c. 1915, Charles Wasson, Charles Wasson Photo Collection, cow herd, Cows, Decatur IL, farm, field, Glass Negative, herd, herd of cows, negative, Wasson Studios

Herd of Cattle

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This is a glass negative of a herd of cattle with an unknown man. The photo was taken by Charles Wasson of Wasson Studios in Decatur, IL in the early1900s.

Tags: c. 1910, Cattle, Charles Wasson, Charles Wasson Photo Collection, Cows, Decatur IL, Glass Negative, herd, herd of cattle, man, negative, unknown man, Wasson Studios

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Photo of Clay Robinson Dairy

Hugh Baker's Oral History

Herd of Cows

Herd of Cattle

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Annual Report of Board of Trustees, of the City Librarian, and to Illinois State Library May 1989