Description: Yellowed color photograph of three people posed outside near a car. One woman wearing a blue floral dress with grey hair, one woman with grey hair seated in a chair wearing a grey dress, man standing to the right of the women wearing a white shirt blakc and gold tie and black pants. Notation on back of photo reads: Mother's Day 5/8/1949 Peoria, Ill.
Description: Yellowed color photo of three people posed outside next to a car, one woman in a blue short sleved dress with brown hair, one woman with grey hair seated in a chair wearing a blue floral dress, man with grey hair wearing a white shirt with brown and tan tie wearing brown pants. Notation on back of picture reads: "Mother's Day 5/8/1949 Peoria."
Description: Yellowed color photo of eight people posed outside with cars in the background. Row 1: One woman with brown hair wearing a blue dress crouching and petting a cat, Woman with grey hair and grey dress seated in a chair to the right of the woman petting the cat Row 2: Woman with grey hair wearing a blue floral dress, Woman with dark colored hair wearing a black dress with a print collar and a broach on right shoulder, Woman with brown hair in blue print dress, Man with brown hair wearing light colored shirt grey print tie and grey pants, man with grey hair white shirt black tie black pants Row 3: Man with grey hair wearing white shirt with brown print tie. Notation on back of the photo reads "Mother's Day 5/8/1949, Peoria" From Pink Robinson's Drug Store Envelope in file "Spiker Family Friends Personae." [show more]
Description: Certificate (1Fighter Command) and two letters commending and thanking Elmer Cousins for volunteering with the Aircraft Warning Service, "to take part in the gradual transition from the defensive position..to the offensive..." "A small scale sneak raid" is still possible...maintain silence...to safeguard military information." (The War Dept. had announced the discontinuance of the Ground Observer Corps and the Aircraft Warning Corps.) [show more]
Description: The Charles Butt Ballard Negative Collection. Black and white photo. Wreck of 50' dragger at head of harbor, occuring night of March 2, 1947. "Dorothy & Edith"