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Photographs of Sears before it became the New Decatur Public Library Building
Photographs of the exterior of the Sears building located at 130 N. Franklin St. before it became the new Decatur Public Library Building taken in 1998.
Photographs from "The Houses that Sears Built" Presentation at the Decatur Public Library, 2004
Photographs from the "The Houses that Sears Built" presented by Rosmary Thorton held at the Decatur Public Library in 2004.
Photographs from the Purchase of the Franklin St. Building for the Decatur Public Library
Photographs from the purchase of the Franklin St. Sears building for the new location of the Decatur Public Library, including a ribbon cutting and interior shots of the new library space.
Board of Directors Meeting Packet - August 1996
This is the information from the Board of Directors meeting in August 1996. At this meeting the board discussed city librarian's report, committee suggestions, summer reading program, stats report, circ report, Personnel Policy and Public Relations,…
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Photograph of N. Franklin at the 300 Block at North St.
Photograph of the house at N. Franklin and the 300 block at North St. This house, the first brick house in Decatur, stood for many years on the southeast corner of Franklin and North streets where the Sears Roebuck & Co. farm store was in 1955. It…