Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Photos from Unknown Telephone Company.

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Photograph of man sitting at a telephone switch board. Photograph of telephone equipment, company unknown.

Tags: BS1930, BS1931, Business, communication, Decatur IL., Equipment, Switchboard, Telephone

Photo of Operators at Central Union Telephone Co.

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Photograph of Telephone Operators at Switchboard Central Union Telephone Co.

Tags: BS74, Business, Central Union Telephone Co., Communications, Noel C. Dick, Operators, Switchboard, Telephone Co.

Mrs. Jane Lee's Oral History

This is the oral history of Mrs. Jane Lee. She was interviewed by Robert Williams on January 31, 1990. The interview includes her life in Decatur, and working for the Herald and Review.

Tags: "HMS Pinafore", "Little Prince", "Quality Street", "Red Mill", 1990, Alex Van Praag Sr., Armistice Day, Betty Jo Eickenberry, Central Railroad Depot, childhood, classified ad department, DAR, Decatur and Macon County Hospital, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Dr. Jones, Elmer Nickel, Ethel Parkinson, Fires, Freda Douthit, GAR, Glee Club, Governor Oglesby Mansion board, Grand Army of the Republic, Great Depression, grocery stores, H.C. Schaub, Helen Gorham, Herald and Review, home birth, Howard Millard, ice block, Illinois Central Railroad, Indian schools, international traveling, Interurban, Interurban station, interview, January 1990, Jeanette MacDonald, Lake Decatur, Lincoln School, Linn and Scruggs, Louise Fyke, Macon County Conservation District, Macon County Hospital, Macon County Newsletter, Marietta School, Moweaqua mine disaster, Mrs. Jane Lee, Mt. Zion IL, oral history, plays, Poetry, poetry club, recording, Red Cross, Robert Williams, Roosevelt Junior High School, Shellabarger Mansion, St. Mary's Auxiliary, stalker, Stephen Decatur Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, streetcar, Switchboard, Toonerville Trolley, Transfer House, traveling, typing, Westminster Presbyterian Women, Women's Relief Corp, World War I

Photograph of the Riverton Power House Control Board

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Photograph of the Riverton Power House control board, part of the Illinois Traction System railroad, date unknown.

Tags: Control Board, Herald and Review, Illinois Traction System, Photo File: Railroad, railroad, Railroads, Riverton IL, Riverton Power House, Switchboard

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Photos from Unknown Telephone Company.

Photo of Operators at Central Union Telephone Co.

Mrs. Jane Lee's Oral History

Photograph of the Riverton Power House Control Board