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Captain T.J. Abel
Photograph of Captain T.J. Abel taken by Rembrandt's of Decatur, and used in the Decatur Daily Review on October 27, 1925. Capt. Abel was a veteran of the Civil War, and member of Abel & Locke, a carpet, wallpaper, and drapery dealer. He later went…
Using the Toilets
Photograph of Clyde Switzer, Wayne Overlin, John Keck, and Swede Besalke pretending to use the toilets in the basement of the old Herald and Review building on N. Main St. in 1955.
Joseph Mills
Photograph of Joseph Mills (died July 6, 1913). Veteran Decatur lumberman. He bought land at the corner of N. Main and William Streets in 1853 and started a carpenter shop. He was a contractor and building until 1878. During this time he erected,…
Tags: biography, carpenter, contractor, D. S. Shellabarger House, Decatur IL., Herald and Review, Home Mfg. Co., James Millikin House, Joseph Mills, Lumberman, Lyon Co., Mills Lumber Co., N. Main St., Old First Methodist Church, Stapp's Chapel, Van Deventer Studio, Vandeventer Studio, W. B. Hary, William St.
Mary A. Nesbitt
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…
William G. Bachman
Photograph of William G. Bachman (b. 12/21/1864, d. 7/8/1934). He was a furniture dealer, and owned a company on the southwest corner of N. Main and Prairie. This site later became Linn & Scruggs. The photo was taken by Vandeventer.
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M.W. Johnson - Baby
This is the glass negative of M.W. Johnson's baby. The photo was taken by Charles Wasson of Wasson Studios in Decatur, IL in the early 1900s.