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Monthly Board of Trustees Minutes - June 1963
This is the minutes from the board meeting on June 28, 1963. Also included are the minutes from the policy committee meeting on June 12, 1963, the minutes from the financial committee meeting on June 13, 1963, the minutes from the properties…
Monthly Board of Trustees Minutes - July 1963
This is the minutes from the board meeting on July 26, 1963. Also included are the circulation statistics for June 1963, a gift list for June 1963, a vendor list for June 1962, a combined budget and bill list for July 1963, encumbrance accounts for…
Monthly Board of Trustees Minutes - January 1963
This is the minutes from the board meeting on January 25, 1963. Also included are the combined budget and bill list for January 1963, the encumbrance accounts for January 1963, payroll for January 1963, list of US Social Security and IMRF…
Photographs from the Whitmer Heating Plant Fire
Photographs from the January 31, 1918 Whitmer Heating Plant fire. This heating plant was located in a basement behind the Brunswick Hotel, at the northwest corner of Water and Wood, and at the rear of the Leon & Morris store. The plant was started by…
Monthly Board of Trustees Minutes - February 1963
This is the minutes from the board meeting on February 23, 1963. Also included are a letter from Associated Library Building Consultants, combined budget and bill list for February 1963, encumbrance accounts for February 1963, payroll for February…
Photographs from the Powers Opera House Fire
Photographs from the November 4, 1895 Powers Opera House fire near East Main and Water streets. The origin of the fire was unknown, however the estimated loss was around $250,000. The Powers Opera house was announced to be rebuilt the very day after…
Photographs from the Powers Office Building Fire
Photographs from the April 7, 1914 fire that destroyed the Powers building properties at Water and Main streets. The properties destroyed and affected included the Powers estate, Linn & Scruggs store, the Leavenworth Store, the Powers Theater,…
Photographs from the Morehouse & Wells Fire
Several photographs from the August 22, 1909 Morehouse & Wells fire that took out nearly a block of downtown Decatur businesses. The fire started in the Morehouse & Wells building on East Main and destroyed half the block bounded by Merchant,…