old De Kalb photos

[EDDE]

Marker Reads: ''This Tree was the Marker of an Old Indian Trail Traveled by Chief Shabbona'' In Memory of Mark Westlake U. S. Solider World War (I) (1929)

DeKalb, West of Glidden School, Looking East Near Shoe Factory, Elephants and Show People

DeKalb Fair Grounds August 4th, 1894. Later Became Northern Illinois University/Northern Illinois State Normal School Campus, Photo Shows People Watching Bicycle Races, Shows Grandstand Viewing Box, Church and/or School House in Background

 

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[Gypsy Heart]

Dang ......here I thought we were going to see your baby pics

Really cool pic anyway!

 

[EDDE]

sit tight more to follow

 

[EDDE]

Bert Shetter and Indian Guide ,1904

Decoration Day (Memorial Day) Parade
Date: May 30, 1892

Reunion of the 105th Illinois Volunteers
Date: 1911

Barnum and Bailey Circus, Railroad Tracks
July, 1913

 

[EDDE]

Spanish American War 1898, DeKalb County Soldiers
DeKalb County Soldiers Taken In Springfield, Illinois, Company M Third Regiment, (See Adj. General�s Book Volume Number 9)

panish American War 1898, DeKalb County Soldiers, Company M Third Regiment, Handwritten List(as mentioned above)

Dedication of Civil War Monument
hoto Taken on Courthouse Lawn, Monument in Background

Grand Army of Republic (G.A.R)
Date: 1916

 

[EDDE]

Wilson E. Chapel

Grave of Cpl. Wilson E. Chapel located in the National Cemetery at Danville, VA

Major General Winfield S. Hancock and his Illinois Corps Division Commanders: Barlow, Birney and Gibbon

 

[EDDE]

Horse Drawn Hearse

 

[EDDE]

From Spanish-American War

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Mr. DeKalb,

are you in any of the photos.

 

[Merf]

Great pics Ed.

 

[Timberwolf]

Great pics

Timberwolf

 

[sniper-medic]

Hey EDDEKALB,
I had sent you a PM.....I am curious about the photo with the tree marking the Chief Shabbona trail....Any idea where this was ? Thanks!

Randy

 

[EDDE]

Hey EDDEKALB,
I had sent you a PM.....I am curious about the photo with the tree marking the Chief Shabbona trail....Any idea where this was ? Thanks!

Randy

PM sent

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

Awesome old photos. I'm going back to look again. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Amona]

Waoo Great pics,....no T-shirt, no shorts, no ipod, no cell phone,no TV, no pollution, no digital camera on those pics, just sane live, the way I would like to live.

Amona

 

[crazyjarhead]

Thanks for sharing. Wheres the asphault? Nice bent tree too

 

[Montana Jim]

EDDE - I know this post is old as dirt, but, it would be cool to see Then & Now pics...

Take new pics at the locations of the old ones!

You know - only if you get bored or something...

 

[EDDE]

Shabbona

 

[Montana Jim]

Sha-na-na

 

[Lookn4Seated]

I wish I was into detecting while they were redoing and digging up the East Lagoon by Altgeld Hall. I lived right off of College and John street. I bet there was tons of stuff digged up there ready for the taking.

Did youever have a chance to MD that?