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1. 2013.1.76 - Print, Photographic

   Print, photographic, 8" x 10", black and white, man wearing white cap with badge pointing to piece of fire equipment on which has "1897" and "Bartlett" painted on side. Back- written in ink, "Fire Chief Bull Par?" Then Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department Chief William Bull poses months before his death in December 1949, with the Village of Bartlett's first piece of fire fighting equipment, a 1897 Howe hand pumper. Bull joined the department whe...

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2. 2014.21.14 - Print, Photographic

   Print, photographic, 6 1/2" h x 4 1/4" w, Front- eight young men,standing/sitting indoors wearing suits or casual clothing, Back- written in ink- "Center top Geo Thurnau, 3rd rite [sic] 2nd row Fred Hoth, W. E. Bull- 1st on left- first row, E.Thurnau 2nd on left- first row" Friends gather to have this image taken. W. E. Bull is William "Billy" E. Bull who would go onto to operate Bartlett's Bull's Meat Market and become chief of the Bartlett V...

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3. 2014.21.16 - Print, Photographic

   Print, photographic, 3 1/4" w x 4 1/2" h, black & white, Front- headshot of man wearing suit, tie, eyeglasses and uniform hat, image cut to this size prior to donation. William E. Bull (1879-1949) was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States. By the mid-1880s, Bull and his family were living in the Bartlett area. In 1900, Bull married Bartlett native Lillian O'Brien. The couple had twins in 1901, naming them Lester and Esther. B...

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4. 2014.21.5 - Print, Photographic

   Print, photographic, image size-8 3/4" x 6 1/2", on black matt, black & white, Front- four people, three male, one female, stand outside two-story clapboard building, printed on awning- "Meat market W. E. Bull Meat Market", toy wagon on left, on right is water pump, two auction signs in window. The W. E. Bull Meat Market was once located on Main Street. Pictured here, left to right is owner William Bull, his daughter Esther Bull, an unknown sa...

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5. 2014.21.6 - Print, Photographic

   Print, photographic, 6 1/2 " w x 4 1/4"h, image size, matted to 9 3/4" w x 8" h, Front- man wearing apron, holding meat and tool, and young boy, standing inside business, cash register, scale on left counter, wooden floor with saw dust, assorted hooks hang off rafters on right, advertisements for products and signs on walls. William E. Bull (1879-1949) was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States. By the mid-1880s, Bull and his fam...

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6. 2014.21.7 - Print, Photographic

   Print, photographic, 6 1/2" x 4 1/4", sepia, woman in long dark dress seated with two girls and two boys standing around her in front of floral backdrop. Mrs. Sophia Bull (1846-1894) with her children, William, Lewis, Mary and Hattie. The portrait was taken at C. S. Gerlach studio in Elgin. She and husband August were German immigrants arriving in the area in 1885. Son William, first on right, became the proprietor of Bartlett's Bull's Meat M...

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7. 2015.1.58 - Transparency, Slide

   Transparency, Slide, 2" x 2", color, two buildings facing street, green home with white trim and shutters to the left, 116 W Bartlett Ave is building on the right, brick upper level and wood-faced lower level separated by a roof overhang, pine tree to the left. 116 W Bartlett Avenue, on right, was built in 1924 for the business and home of the William Bull family. Bull's Meat Market was located on the first floor. The family William, his wife ...

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8. 2016.28.1 - Booklet

   Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department, 1897-1997, A Century of Service

   Record Type: Library

   
9. 2016.39.9 - Matchbook

   Matchbook, 1.5" w x 2"l, paper, Green and tan matchbook for Bull's Groceries, Front- green box with "W. E. BULL Quality Meats & Groceries Phone 2531 BARTLETT, ILL." printed in black, with "CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING" printed along the border in black. Back- green box with "W. E. BULL Quality Meats & Groceries Phone 2531 BARTLETT, ILL. YOUR TRADE IS APPRECIATED" printed in black. Saddle- "RELIABLE SERVICE" printed in red block letters. Bottom of ...

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10. 2018.33.2 - Print, photographic

    Print, photographic, black & white, 11 men dressed in same dark shirts and caps, standing outside, in front of fire pumper, parked outside a building. The Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department poses in front of their pumper outside Bull's Meat Market once located at 116 W. Bartlett Avenue. Left to right, George Wendler, William "Billy" Baxmann, Mose Ortman, Edward Jensen, William Bull, Herbert Schnadt, Russell Porter, Erwin Schmidt, Ernest "Tony"...

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11. 2019.1.1 - Receipt

    Receipts, paper, rolled & tied bundles of receipts and expenditures from Bull's Meat Market. William "Billy" Bull was born in Mecklenburg, Germany on April 9, 1879, immigrating to this area in 1885. In 1910, the "popular young man and hustler, known in this community as a man of honesty and integrity," bought the meat trust of Hoth and Humbracht. He went onto open his meat market first on Main Street and later moved and built his new shop at 1...

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12. P75-24-4 - Print, photographic

    Print, photographic, 8" x 10", black and white, man wearing white cap with badge points to piece of fire equipment. Back- written in ink, "Aug 16-49, This is William Bull, who was a grocer in Bartlett, and fire chief at the time of this picture." Then Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department Chief William Bull points to the department's first piece of equipment, a 1897 Howe Hand Pumper. The pumper is on exhibit today at Fire Station 1 234 N. Oak Ave...

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