Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Photographs of Carnegie Library Blueprints.

Photographs of the Carnegie Library blueprints.

Tags: Architecture, Blueprint, building, Carnegie, Carnegie Library, Decatur IL, Downtown, library, Library Bureau, Photo File: Library, Plans, Public, Public Library, W.A. Otis

Various photographs of the library's bookmobiles.

Tags: 1930, 1950's, book, bookmobile, Books, Carnegie Library, Decatur IL, library, Photo File: Library, Public, Public Library, Transportation

Photographs of the Longview housing development. One aerial shot and one shot of the play area.

Tags: 1942, 1952, aerial, Decatur IL, Development, house, Housing, Longview, Photo File: Housing, Playground

Photographs of the Waterworks and the reservoir.

Tags: building, Decatur IL, lake, Lake Decatur, Photo File: Lake Decatur, Reservoir, Waterworks

Photographs of the interior of the Waterworks.

Tags: Decatur IL, Engine Room, interior, lake, Lake Decatur, Photo File: Lake Decatur, Water, Waterworks

Photographs of the Waterworks while under construction.

Tags: 1908, Construction, Decatur IL, lake, Lake Decatur, Photo File: Lake Decatur, River, Sangamon, Sangamon River, Water, Waterworks

Photographs of people enjoying the beach, swimming, playing in the sand, diving off the tower, water slide, and life guards.

Tags: Beach Activities, Decatur IL., Dive Tower, Herald and Review, Lake Decatur, Life Guards, Photo File: Lake Decatur, Playing in Sand, Sunning, swimming, Water Slide

Photographs of scenes on the Sangamon River.

Tags: 1914, 1915, Bathers, boat, Boats, Decatur IL, Flood, lake, Lake Decatur, Photo File: Lake Decatur, River, Sangamon, Sangamon River, scene, Water

Photographs of people swimming, fishing, seaplane, and ice carnival on Lake Decatur. Lake Celebration with four children in costume, 1923.

Tags: 1923, Alice White, Charles Ellis, Diving Tower, fishing, Ice Carnival, Lake Decatur, M. E. Craig, Mildred Hodgins, Photo File: Lake Decatur, Seaplane, Slide, swimming, Water Carnival

Photographs of boat houses along the Sangamon River before the valley was flooded to create Lake Decatur.

Tags: 1916, boat, Boat House, Cabin, Decatur IL, house, lake, Lake Decatur, Photo File: Lake Decatur, River, Sangamon, Sangamon River