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1940-1949
- Businesses on the northeast corner of 4th Street and Linden Avenues.Businesses on the northeast corner of 4th Street and Linden Avenues.
- View looks east down Wilmette Avenue. Also visible in the photograph is Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Jewel and a dry goods store.View looks east down Wilmette Avenue. Also visible in the photograph is ...
- View looks southwest along Wilmette Avenue. Businesses visible in the photograph are Walgreen Drugs, the Wilmette Cafe and Bosch Wallpaper and Paints.View looks southwest along Wilmette Avenue. Businesses visible in the photograph are ...
- View of the intersection of Wilmette and Central Avenues looking north. Visible to the east is the marquee of the Wilmette Theater which is showing Good News, a film starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford; a barber shop; Schultz & Nord Dry Cleaners on Central Avenue with Wilmette Stationers around ...View of the intersection of Wilmette and Central Avenues looking north. Visible ...
- Formerly located at 1149 Wilmette Ave, Wilmette, IL.Formerly located at 1149 Wilmette Ave, Wilmette, IL.
- In pencil on reverse " Old First Federal on Wilmette Ave."In pencil on reverse " Old First Federal on Wilmette Ave."
- All rights reserved The L. L. Cook Co., Milwaukee.All rights reserved The L. L. Cook Co., Milwaukee.
- Wilmette Public Library staff members in 1945. Left to right: Helen Siniff, Mildred Jones, Adelaide Ortegal, unidentified woman.Wilmette Public Library staff members in 1945. Left to right: Helen Siniff, ...
- One of a series of photographs to illustrate overcrowded conditions in the library. Photograph was published January 8, 1948 in The Wilmette LifeOne of a series of photographs to illustrate overcrowded conditions in the ...
- One of a series of photographs to illustrate overcrowded conditions in the libraryOne of a series of photographs to illustrate overcrowded conditions in the ...
- One of a series of photographs to illustrate overcrowded conditions in the libraryOne of a series of photographs to illustrate overcrowded conditions in the ...
- One of a series of photographs to illustrate overcrowded conditions in the libraryOne of a series of photographs to illustrate overcrowded conditions in the ...
- Staff of the Carnegie Library of Wilmette in the Adult Department. Left to right: Miss Gladys C. Engelien, Mrs. Katharine L. Adams and Miss Mary Jane HebelStaff of the Carnegie Library of Wilmette in the Adult Department. Left ...
- [annotation on back of the photograph] Note the number of vacant lots on Linden Ave., and Laurel Ave. at this time. The Ben Marshall (Goldblatt) home is still there and the water comes almost up to the bluff there. You can see the scaffolding on the Baha'i Temple. None of ...[annotation on back of the photograph] Note the number of vacant lots ...
- The inscription on the back identifies the view, incorrectly, as the east side of Green Bay Road.The inscription on the back identifies the view, incorrectly, as the east ...
- A typed label on the reverse "Here children may see the ruins of an old Lake Michigan ier and be told how it was built generations ago to stop beach erosion." In red pencil on reverse: "Ruins of Gage's Pier" In pencil: "1949"A typed label on the reverse "Here children may see the ruins ...
- In pencil on reverse "Dunes and Gage's Pier 1949."In pencil on reverse "Dunes and Gage's Pier 1949."
- Typed label on reverse: "Here children may learn of beach erosion from lake storms and of botanical growth in newly formed sand dunes."Typed label on reverse: "Here children may learn of beach erosion from ...
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