Browse Items · Decatur Public Library Local History Photo Collection

Photograph of the Agora Society

Photograph of Decatur High School's Agora Society, a literary society, taken in the west end of Fairview Park in the spring of 1914.

Tags: 1914, Agora, Agora Society, Decatur High, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Fairview, Fairview Park, Girls, Group, high school, Literary, park, Photo File: Schools, school, Schools, Society, Spring

Photograph of William F. Smith

Photograph of William F. Smith. He became track team coach at Decatur High School in 1910. He was also a physics teacher.

Tags: 1910, coach, Decatur High, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Herald and Review, high school, Photo File: Schools, Physics, school, Schools, Smith, Staff, Teacher, Track, Wamsley & Wasson, William F. Smith, William Smith

Photograph of the Jacob Henry Coonradt Memorial Tablet

Photograph of the Jacob Henry Coonradt memorial tablet. This tablet, which had resided in Decatur High School, was given in appreciation of the long teaching service Coonradt had given the school. He taught there from September 5th, 1881 to December…

Tags: 1925, Coonradt, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Herald and Review, high school, Jacob Coonradt, Jacob Henry Coonradt, Memorial, Photo File: Schools, school, Schools, Stephen Decatur High School, Tablet, Teacher

Photograph of the Class of 1950 Reunion

Photograph of the Class of 1950 forty year reunion taken during alumni weekend in June of 1990. Names listed left to right.
Row One: William M. Tangney, Merril Cameron Dees '48, Mrs. Staley, Alice Jones Lambrick, Bill Dickinson, Marian Anderson…

Tags: 1950, 1990, Alumni, Alumni Weekend, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Group, high school, High School Reunion, Photo File: Schools, reunion, school, Schools, Stephen Decatur High School

Photograph of a Decatur High School Postcard

Photographs of a Decatur High School postcard from an unknown date. This is the first high school building, built in 1869 at Broadway and North Streets in Decatur before the second high school was building was built on N. Franklin Street in 1911.

Tags: 1869, Broadway St., building, C. U. Williams, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, exterior, Franklin St., high school, James A. Woodruff, James Woodruff, North St., Old, Original, Photo File: School, postcard, school, Schools, Woodruff

Photographs of the Interior of Decatur High School

Photographs of the interior of Decatur High School including the gym, auditorium, the girls locker room, a science classroom and the music room taken around 1940.