Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Transfer House in the Big Snow

Photograph of the Transfer House after a heavy snow storm in Decatur, IL.

Tags: Big Snow, Decatur IL, Ella Foulk Converse, Foulk family, Transfer House

Photograph of Trixy the dog.

Tags: dog, Ella Foulk Converse, Foulk family, Trixy

This is the letter from Robert Dumas to Leslie Allen about the Breckenridge Trust Fund and Bridges Trust Fund.

Tags: 1977, board of directors, Board of Trustees, Breckenridge Trust Fund, Bridges Trust Fund, City Librarian, city manager, City of Decatur, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, June 1977, Leslie Allen, letter, Robert Dumas, trust funds

Photograph of funeral procession of Tunis Wilson. Ran in the Decatur Daily Review, 4/26/1917. Full obit: Decatur Herald; 4/23/1917; p. 3

Tags: biography, Decatur Bridge Works, Decatur IL., Funeral Cortege, Holly Johnson, Illinois National Guard, Photo File: Biography, Tunis Wilson, W.W.Wilson, World War I, WWI

Photograph of Two Unidentified ADM Executives.

Tags: 12/4/1939, ADM, Agriculture, Archer Daniel Midland Co., BS925, Business, Decatur IL., Executives, Grain Processing, management, Manufacturing

Photograph of two girls sitting on a wagon in Fowler, CO in 1921.

Tags: 1921, Fowler CO, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, Roberts Family Collection, unknown girls, wagon

Two Men Injured in Explosion at Archer Daniel Midland on Grain Elevator 6/8/1984.

Tags: 6/8/1984, ADM, Archer Daniel Midland Co., BS916, Burned, Decatur IL., Explosion, grain elevator, Two Injured

Photograph of two boys in swimsuits by a river

Tags: Mabel Grubbs Roberts, outdoors, River, Roberts Family Collection, swimming, swimsuits, unknown boys

Negative of a photograph of two men with an old airplane in a field near some houses in 1918.

Tags: 1918, airplane, Aviation, Decatur Herald and Review, Decatur IL, field, houses, negative, Photo File: Aviation, unknown men

Photograph of two of Leonard Grubb's brothers, Jim and an unnamed brother, in North Dakota

Tags: Grubbs family, Jim Grubbs, Mabel Grubbs Roberts, North Dakota, Roberts Family Collection, unnamed Grubbs brother