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Giles, Ruth |
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2015.9.17 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, black and white, Front- small child standing in field of wild flowers wearing white dress, trees and homes in the background., Back: "1918, 244 South Hickory Ave. Bartlett, in front of house" Ruth Harmening Giles (1916-2014) is peeking out from behind the wild flowers in the field across the street from her South Hickory Avenue home. It wasn't until the 1950s that homes began to be built on the east side of the block and the fi...
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2015.9.2 - Image, Digital
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2015.9.3 - Image, Digital
Image, Digital, black and white, Front- young girl wearing dress holding cat, standing outside, building on left, stacked objects on right, open vista behind with trees. Back- in pencil- "S.W. view Ma/cat, looking to Western Ave" Ruth Harming Giles (1916-2014), daughter of William and Ella Harmening, was born in 1916. After the passing of her mother in 1927, her father and her returned to Bartlett to live with William's parents, Henry and Caro...
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2017.1.32 - Print, photographic
Print, photographic, 9" x 13 1/2", color, 14 people total, 9 women and 5 men, standing in front of banners hanging from ceiling which read, "Bartlett HIgh School 1997." In summer 1997, just prior to the opening of Bartlett HIgh School, the Bartlett History Museum hosted a reunion for students that attended the first Bartlett High School, a two-year high school, which operated from 1919 to 1941. Left to right, Elaine Jensen Atchison, Jane Hu...
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2017.23.15 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, black & white, Front- Nineteen people of various ages standing/sitting in three rows indoors. Alice (1880-1976), middle row, second on right and Thomas Edward Giles (1876-1957), middle row, third from left, celebrated their golden anniversary in 1951. The couple was married on March 27, 1901, in the Norwood area, today a part of Chicago. A half of century later, they hosted a community open house at their Western Avenue home i...
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2018.16.6 - Print, photographic
Print, photographic, 9 1/4"w x 12 1/4"h, sepia, one gentleman and six young people (four girls, two boys), standing/sitting in room. All young people wearing boutonnieres or flower bunches. The 1929 confirmation class of then Immanuel Evangelical and Reform Church (today Immanuel United Church of Christ) pose with their minister Reverend William Rathmann (seated, center). Confirmands, left to right, Anna Marxen, Lucille Kennicke, Raymond McCle...
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P04-8-11 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, scanned from photocopy, black & white, Front- three rows of students, male and female, seating inside at desks in classroom, adult male standing at rear, artwork, clock, blackboards, woodburning stove on rear wall, in lower right corner written in ink- ""Ruth Harmening, Bartlett Ill., 1-2 year high school, 5-12-28" Ruth Harmening Giles (1916-2014), middle row, second from front, attended the two-year Bartlett School program aft...
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P04-8-21 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, mat- 12"w x 10"l, photo-81/2"w x 6 1/2"l, sepia, Front- three rows of 21 children and one adult, standing/sitting outside a brick building with windows and double wooden doors. Back- written in pencil- "Ruth Giles, 1927-28, 7th & 8th, old Bartlett School, SW corner Hickory & North" It's the 1927-1928 school year at Bartlett School and these 7th & 8th grade students had Miss Elvina Ness (later Elvina Ness Brandt), back row,...
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P04-8-24 - Album
Album, 3 3/4" x 5 3/4", paper, plastic, blue spiral, green front & back covers, Cover- printed in red, "Super Pak Snaps," Inside- five black & white images labeled a-e, images are of group of same women in different poses. Some are wearing costume components. The Zyzzles Club were a group of Bartlett moms that met in the 1950s. This informal social club hosted meetings at members homes and included at added touch of themed get togethers such a...
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P04-8-25 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, 3 1/2" x 5", color, Front- seven women sitting inside dressed in costumes, Back- "Giles April '57" The Zyzzles Club was a group of Bartlett moms that gathered regularly in the 1950s for fun and maybe a little gossip. At this meeting the gals dressed up as hobos!
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P04-8-30 - Image, digital
Image, digital, black & white, Front- portrait of a woman and man. Meeting a future spouse today by using dating apps is common. But what about back in the good old days? How did you meet? For Tom, right, and Ruth Giles, left, it was fate across the backyard fence. Ruth and her father William Harmening moved back to Bartlett after the passing of her mom, his wife, Ella in 1927. They lived with William's parents Henry and Caroline Harmening ...
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