Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Miscellaneous Photos Gebhart Motor Supply.

Photographs of fishing flies, employees checking inventory, and auto parts.

Tags: Automotive, BS1484, BS1485, BS1486, BS1487, BS1488, BS1489, Business, Decatur IL., Employee, Fishing Flies, Gebhart Motor Supply, hobbies, inventory

Photo of Bolay's Hobbies

Photograph of the Bolay's Hobbies Storefront located at Main and Main Streets.

Tags: 117 E. Main St., Bolay's Hobbies, BS965, Business, Crafts, Decatur IL., Donald & Peggy Hanks, hobbies, Lincoln Square, Main & Main St., Nick Zuzich, Storefront

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

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Miscellaneous Photos Gebhart Motor Supply.

Photo of Bolay's Hobbies

Hugh Baker's Oral History