Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Photo of Parrish Farm Milk House.

Photograph of the Parrish Farm Milk Scene, Sept. 22, 1929.

Tags: 9/22/1929, BS369, Business, Dairy Farm, Decatur IL., Jack Aldrich, Milk Operation, Parrish Farm

Hugh Baker's Oral History

This is the oral history of Hugh Baker. He was interviewed by Betty Turnell on June 28, 1985. The interview includes his time working for the Mueller Company, and his father's dairy farm.

Tags: 1985, alcoholism committees, automobiles, Betty Turnell, building homes, changes to milking, Chatanooga TN, childhood, City Milk Inspector, civic boards, company town, Construction, Cows, Dairy Farm, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Decatur Mental Health Center, diptheria, electricity, epidemic, family life, farm, farmhouse, farming, Great Depression, harvest dinners, hired hands, hobbies, Hugh Baker, interview, June 1985, Liberty Bonds, marine engineering, Mary W. French School, mechanical engineering, Milk Delivery, Mueller City, Mueller Company, Mueller family, Mueller IL, Mueller Pottery Plant, naval architecture, oral history, pasteurization, Plant 3, public parks, recording, Recreation, retirement, Roosevelt Junior High School, Salvation Army board, sanitary conditions, South Shores, sterilization, tenant's house, The Mueller Land Improvement Trust, University of Michigan, World War I

Photo of Fairhaven's Farm Dairy Milk Wagons and Truck

Photographs of the Fairhaven Farm Dairy Horse Drawn Milk Wagons and First Milk Truck - A Model T.

Tags: BS363, Business, Dairies, Dairy, Dairy Farm, Fairhaven Dairy Farm, farm, Jack Aldrich, Macon County IL., Milk Truck, Milk Wagon

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Photo of Parrish Farm Milk House.

Hugh Baker's Oral History

Photo of Fairhaven's Farm Dairy Milk Wagons and Truck