Showing posts with label Photos Businesses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photos Businesses. Show all posts
Friday, March 01, 2024
Monday, July 05, 2021
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Green Street Looking West
--Photo from James Lossing. FAG Friend. July 2018.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Friday, July 20, 2018
W. H. Wakelin Store
The man standing to the right in the photo (and zoomed photo just above) is Thomas Wakelin, father of William H. Wakelin.
--Photo and info from James Lossing. Email 07/17/18. FAG Friend.
--W. H. Wakelin Store advertisement from Roberts Herald. 19 December 1917. Page 8.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Roberts Photo
While doing my Lyman Township in the Civil War research I logged into Ancestry.com to look for additional information. I found an email address for Barbarba Leroy on the site (a contributer to the Ruedger family), and I contacted her. Right away she responded with pictures, stories, etc. She has done much research on the Ruedger, Gurrad, Foster, and Clark family in the Roberts area. She sent me this photo of downtown Roberts. I have not seen this perspective in such an old photo. You can see the church steeples in the background, and I believe also a sign for possibly the Colteaux Restaurtant and Lunch Room. I am not sure what the building is at the far side of the photo near the large windmill. With all the men standing around (and it looks like one may have a sheriff's badge on his jacket), I wonder if this photo also was taken at the time of the fire in 1894 that destroyed the south side of Main/Green Street. The original is photo #1 and those following are just enlargements/zooms of the original.
Isn't it a great photo? Thank you for sharing with us Barb.
Isn't it a great photo? Thank you for sharing with us Barb.
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Friday, September 01, 2017
Sunday, April 30, 2017
T. W. Wakelin
I was excited to find this ad yesterday in the Paxton Record.
--Paxton Record. 20 January 1889.
Friday, April 28, 2017
Roberts Brick & Tile Factory Crew
Roberts Brick and Tile Works Crew
The only men that I can identify are:
Back row, L to R: John Caleb Kenward, Niels Jensen, ?, Chris Anderson
--Posted by Jean Fox to the Roberts Illinois History Group page. Her comments under the photo.
We had some discussion on the Roberts Illinois History Group page, Jean Fox and I. The following was posted by Jean Fox after I added this picture to the page. She thinks Seward Arnold is the person to the far right sitting.
Posted by Jean Fox: L to R: John Kenward, Niels jensen, Soren Jensen (brother to Niels), and Chris Anderson. Seward Arnold gave the picture to mom and dad. I believe the last person in the front row (L to R) is Seward.
I don't think it is. I have several photos of Seward. I do believe the young man to the far left is Seward.
--From my family photos.
Side by side. What do you think? Jean agrees in another post after she sees these photos. Definitely not the guy on the right of the Tile Crew picture.
The Tile Pit
Looking west of the tile pit at the tile factory.
The kilns - They stood near the corner of Dilks St and 115.
Swimming at the Tile Pit. The kilns were located on the left and the tile factory was located on the right. Looking towards Roberts.
Location: West of the Tile Pit, east of the railroad tracks.
--All photos were posted by Jean Fox to the Roberts Illinois History Group page. Under each photo is her identification of the photos.
First Tile Factory
--Posted by Jean Fox to the Roberts Illinois History Group page.
She notes:
Seward Arnold told me that this was a photo of the first tile factory.
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
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