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- Tags: Downtown
Richard Rodgers' Oral History #1
Tags: 1984, air conditioning, automobiles, Baseball, Betty Turnell, Bijoux Theatre, Blue Book, board room, childhood, chimes, Clothing, Coal Mines, cook's stove, Decatur Civic Orchestra, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, Downtown, electricity, Empress Theatre, family orchestra, February 1984, Federal Home Loan Act, Feltman and Curm, FHA, First Methodist Church broadcast, Great Depression, Gushard Building, Gushard store, homogenization, Interurban, interview, John Philip Sousa's band, Lincoln Square, Lincoln Theatre, Linn and Scruggs, marimba, Millikin Orchestra, Millikin University, Music, Musician, Newspapers, oboe, oral history, out houses., pasteurization, public transportation, Pugh School, Radio, recording, refrigeration, Richard Rodgers, Roosevelt Junior High School, salt water taffy, shoe repair, Shoe Store, Shoes, shopping, Stephen Decatur High School, Street Cars, Swarthout Brothers, telephones, The Anvil Chorus, Transfer House, triangle, unpaved streets, vaudeville theatre, vitaphone programs, WJBL station, World War I, WWI, xylophone
Photos taken from the Macon County Courthouse Roof in 1996 by Don Baker.
Tags: 1996, Bus Terminal, City Building, Courthouse Complex Rooftops, Don Baker, Downtown, E. Wood, Franklin St. Mall, Greenview Apartments, KFC Restaurant, Old Court House, Old Grain Elevator, Orlando Apartments, Photo File: Streets, S. Franklin, Sears Building, St. Peter's Catholic Church, Streets, Tommy House Time
Photos of Downtown Decatur taken from rooftops.
Photographs of the Transfer House
Photographs of the Exterior of the Carnegie Library
Photographs of the Carnegie Library Demolition in 1972
Photographs of Sears before it became the New Decatur Public Library Building
Photographs of Lincoln Square and Transfer House in 1996
Photographs of Carnegie Library Blueprints.
Photographs from the Powers Office Building Fire
Tags: 1914, Burtschi, Burtschi Brothers, Burtschi Brothers & Schoenle Co, C. J. Vandeventer, Chief Devore, Decatur IL, Decatur Railway, Decatur Railway & Light Co, Devore, Downtown, Fires, Leavenworth, Leavenworth Store, Lin, Linn & Scruggs, Main, Nihart Drug, Nihart Drug Co, Oldham, Oldham & Stadler, Photo File: Fires, Powers, Powers Building, Powers Office Building, Powers Opera House, Powers Theater, Riney Swartz, Schoenle, Scruggs, Stadler, Swartz, Vandeventer, Water
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Surgical Dressing Class in James Millikin University
WWI - Surgical dressings class at James Millikin University. C. 1918.