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1. 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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2. 2015.9.2 - Image, Digital

   Images, digital, black & white, Front- toddler girl holding garden hoe, standing in field of growing corn and other vegetables, barn, trees in background, Back- written in pencil- "1918 at Bartlett" Back in the day, vegetables were grown, canned and stored for eating during the winter months. Two-year-old Ruth Harmening Giles (1916-2014) is all smiles in 1918 as the corn begin to grow on land once located on S. Hickory Avenue. The barn in the ...

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3. 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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4. 2015.9.5 - Image, Digital

   Image, digital, black and white, woman standing in fur coat and hat outside next to cherry tree, child in fur trimmed coat with doll kneeling in front, dirt path next to home, water tower in background, yard to left of photo. Ella Ahlgrim Harmening (1892-1927) is standing next to a cherry tree on the property of her in-laws' home at 236 S. Hickory Avenue. Her daughter Ruth Harmening Giles (1916-2014) is crouched down in front of her, peeking o...

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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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,...

   Record Type: Photo