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Photos Linn & Scruggs

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Photograph of William Scruggs, part owner of department store Linn & Scruggs, and delivery truck.

Photo of the Home Telephone Co.

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Photograph of the Home Telephone Building on N. Main St., Decatur, IL.

N. Main St. Subway Looking North

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This is the glass negative of the N. Main St. subway looking north. The photo was taken by Pfile's Camera Shop for the Decatur Herald & Review in Decatur, IL around 1930.

Photo of Western Union Messengers on Bicycles.

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Photograph of Western Union Messengers on Bicycles in front of the Western Union Store.

Photos of the Lincoln Theatre, Exterior and Interior

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Photographs of the Lincoln Theater Marquee. Photograph of the Lincoln Theatre opening night 1916, theater filled. Photograph of the Lincoln Theatre lobby. Photographs of the interior. Photograph of the Art Deco on outside of the building.

Photo of the Home Telephone Building

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Photograph of the Home Telephone Building, N. Main St., Decatur, IL. Photo used in the Decatur Business 977.358A, p. 96-1.

Photo of Building 300 Block N. Main

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Photograph of Decatur city street, 300 Block N. Main looking north and east from the intersection of William St.

Mary A. Nesbitt

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Photography of Miss Mary A. Nesbitt; (died 5/8/1937). First Woman optometrist in Illinois. She practiced optometry for 32 years before she retired in 1925. About 1907 she went to South Dakota and homesteaded for awhile. She came back to Decatur and…