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1. 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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2. 2018.50.82 - Image, digital

   Image, digital, color, Front- two men and one woman sitting in a paneled room with TV in background. Left to right, Oliver Hardt, his wife Florence Hardt and Thomas Giles attended the 75th birthday party for their friend Willard "Bill" Schwanke at his Western Avenue home.

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3. 2023.11.1 - Image, Digital

   Imagine, digital, color, Front- One man wearing boutonniere and woman wearing corsage, sitting at table, wall behind. Tom Giles (1913-2003) and Ruth Harmening Giles (1916-2014) met in the backyard between their childhood homes. Tom, whose family moved to Bartlett in 1928, lived at 243 S. Western Avenue, and Ruth lived at 236 S. Hickory Avenue. The couple wed on November 17, 1934. They had two children Ray and Marilyn. After briefly living in C...

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4. A04-8-6 - Plaque

   Plaque, 14" l x 11"w x 1" h, wood, plastic, metal, Front- Lions International Foundation logo, "Melvin Jones Fellow presented to Thomas Giles..." circular medallion with Melvin Jones image, Back- slit for hanging. According to the Lions Club International Foundation, "The Melvin Jones Fellowship (MJF) is the backbone of our foundation. Presented to those who donate US$1,000 to LCIF or to people for whom a donation was made by others, its a tre...

   Record Type: Object

   
5. P04-8-26 - Print, Photographic

   Print, photographic, 5"h x 7"w, black & white, Front- four males and two females inside a room sitting/standing, looking at and/or holding books, bookshelves in background, written in ink- "1955 Herrick House Lion's Gift of Encyclopedias", Back-nothing Members of the Bartlett Lions Club donated a set of encyclopedias in 1955 to Herrick House, once located on West Bartlett Road. Herrick House was a facility initially devoted to the convalescent...

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6. 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 ...

   Record Type: Photo