Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Photograph of Slot Machines

Photograph of slot machines raided by police in the 1940's.

Tags: 1940's, Crime, Decatur IL, Gambling, Photo File: Crime, Police, Raid, Slot Machines

Photograph of a Decatur gambling raid by police in 1951.

Tags: 1951, Crime, Decatur IL, Gambling, Photo File: Crime, Police, Raid

Photograph of the Townsend home after the 1940 murder/suicide of Ezra Townsend and Amy Townsend.

Tags: 1940, Amy Townsend, Crime, Ezra Townsend, farm, house, Murder, Photo File: Crime, Suicide, Townsend

Photograph of Ezra Townsend from the crime scene of the murder/suicide of Ezra Townsend and Amy Townsend.

Tags: 1940, Amy Townsend, Crime, Ezra Townsend, Murder, Photo File: Crime, Suicide, Townsend

Photograph of Amy Townsend after she was shot by Ezra Townsend from the crime scene of the Townsend murder/suicide of 1940.

Tags: 1940, Amy Townsend, Crime, Ezra Townsend, Murder, Photo File: Crime, Suicide, Townsend

Photograph of Blanch Zimmerman charged with being criminally and sexually psychopathic in 1956.

Tags: 1956, Blanche Zimmerman, Crime, Criminal, Photo File: Crime, Psychopath, Zimmerman

Photograph of Virginia Slaton and Norman Kennedy taken in 1947.

Tags: 1947, Crime, Kennedy, Murder, Norman Kennedy, Photo File: Crime, Slaton, Virginia Slaton

Photograph of Virginia Slaton and her lawyer, Robert Shonkwiler after her acquittal for the murder of Norman Kennedy.

Tags: 1947, Acquittal, Court, Crime, Kennedy, lawyer, Murder, Norman Kennedy, Photo File: Crime, Robert Shonkwiler, Shonkwiler, Slaton, Virginia Slaton

Photograph from a bridal fashions expo in 1960.

Tags: Bridal, Bridal Expo, Bride, Dress, Event, Expo, Photo File: Events/Festivals, Women

Photograph from a wedding.

Tags: Event, Photo File: Events/Festivals, Wedding