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Hecht, Elmer |
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2010.15.61 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, color, three men, one in a fire department uniform, standing outside next to a piece of fire fighting equipment on a trailer. Buildings are in background. Fire Chief Elmer Hecht, first on left in uniform, stands in front of the newly restored Howe hand pumper, the Village's first piece of fire fighting equipment purchased in 1897. First on right is then Village President William "Bill" Tiknis, second man on right is William "Bi...
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2012.1.14 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, black and white, four row of 27 children sitting/standing outside a brick building with doors. Bartlett School class picture, fifth through seventh grades, 1935-1939, taken on the main entrance steps. Front row, sitting, left to right, Wallace Darling, Elmer Hecht, Kenneth LaRue, Jack Mayer Second row, left to right, Bill Shrieber, Pearl Hoth Gates, Marjorie Biggs, Vera Gerten, Tella B. Mills, Lila Mae Mills, Lyle Baxmann ...
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2013.1.100 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, 5" w x 3 1/2" h, black & white. Front- men standing inside around table with food and drinks, coats and hats hanging in the upper corner, streamers adorn the ceiling. Back -nothing. Members of the Bartlett Fire Volunteer Department and others are eating and drinking in the second floor hall of the Bartlett Tavern on March 4, 1953. Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department members standing at a bar. The volunteer with the rag in ...
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2013.1.98 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, 4 3/4" w x 3 1/2" h, black & white. Front- men standing inside around a table eating and drinking, some in uniform, streamers decorate the ceiling Back- nothing Members of the Bartlett Fire Volunteer Department and others are eating and drinking in the second floor hall of the Bartlett Tavern on March 4, 1953. Fred "Fritz" Benicke is first on the right. Across from him, profile, behind the man in the left foreground, is El...
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2013.9.91 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, 8" x 10", black & white, Front- man wearing uniform, with arm patch "Bartlett Fire Dept.", drawing a beer from tap labeled Meister Brau, located on a piece of fire equipment. Back- stamped in blue- "Photo by Don Honick." Elmer Hecht (1926-2002) was a longtime chief of the Bartlett Fire Department. Elmer began is tenure as a volunteer in 1952. In 1956, he became a captain. In 1968 he became the district's first full-time pa...
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2014.17.2 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, 3 1/2" x 3 1/2", color, Front- four men in uniforms standing outside in front of piece of yellow firefighting equipment. Back- in ink written, "Kane Cty Fair 1974, Elmer Tom Marth, Bob Probst, Bob Van Alstine" It was the 1974 Kane County Fair and volunteers and chief of the Bartlett and Countryside Fire Protection District Firefighters made an appearance at the event. They are left to right, Bob Probst, Robert Van Alstine,...
Record Type: Photo
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2014.17.8 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, 8" x 10", color, Front- Twenty-six men, standing/crouching, outside with fire behind them, dressed in firefighting gear, some holding pikes. Members of the Bartlett and Countryside Fire Protection District pose in front of a burn down they are conducting. Elmer Hecht is 5th from left wearing beige jacket and baseball cap. John Whitmer, then deputy chief, is wearing white helmet
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2014.28.65 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, 3 1/2" x 3 1/2", color, Front- men and women sitting/standing outside in wooded area, some seated at table eating/drinking, others in rear playing horseshoes, printed on edge- "Aug 68", Back-in black- "Elmer & Mary Hecht, Bob & Fern Van Alstine." Grab your baskets, family/friends and head out to enjoy a meal outdoors. What food and drinks would you pack? This 1968 picnic appears to involve members of the then Bartlett Volu...
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2015.13.4 - Print, photographic
Print, photographic, 8" x 10", black and white, nine men, eight in matching shirts and ties, seating & standing in a room. Members of the Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department pose for a picture in the dance hall that was once above the Bartlett Tavern located at 113 Railroad Avenue. Note their uniform ties bore the initial of their first name. Front row, left to right, Fred Kuester, Roy Hinz, Harvey Rosenwinkel, Bob Van Alstine, Elmer Hecht B...
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2016.28.1 - Booklet
Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department, 1897-1997, A Century of Service
Record Type: Library
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2016.4.21 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, color, 3 1/2" x 5", six men and one women sitting on a parade float, a large American flag is behind then, on the side is "Bartlett Living Legends." In 1999, the Bartlett History Museum selected and honored eight Bartlett residents as Living Legends. They served as the parade marshals for the 1999 Fourth of July parade. Left to right, Elmer Hecht, Thomas Schiferl, John Whitmer, William Tiknis, T. L. Arends, Bruce Suffern, ...
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2017.10.17 - Image, Digital
2017.10.17a- Image, digital, sepia, Front- Two rows of children standing inside in front of brick wall. It's picture day at Bartlett School in 1933. The first grade students of Eva Kampmeyer standing inside Bartlett School in the main entrance. 2019.10.17b- Photocopy of sketch of students outline, numbered, with names typed below to correspond to image. Names supplied by donor.
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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...
Record Type: Photo
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2018.16.2 - Image, digital
Image, digital, black and white, 18 men in uniforms alined in a row outside in front of firefighting equipment and building. Sign on building reads, "Bartlett Vol. Fire Department" The Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department was chartered in 1897. Pictured here are the volunteers on September 8, 1957, standing in front of the "fire barn" located at 218 S. Main Street. In 1952, this 36' x 40' building, constructed by the volunteers, was dedicated. ...
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2018.30.1 - Print, photographic
Print, photographic, 8" w x 10" h, black and white, two people, one man and one woman, standing together outside a building, three cars in background, sign on building is for Zoller's beer. Back- written in ink by William Tiknis, "Elmer Hecht Mickey Thurn Jervey about 1942? in front of what is now the 'Upper Deck.'" Elmer Hecht (1926-2002) and Arlene Thrun Jervey (1922-2007) pose at the corner outside The Eck in 1941. After serving in WW II, H...
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2018.33.51 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, black & white, Front- 17 people standing outside building with signboard, girls are dressed in white, boys are wearing suits, one adult is in the center, trees, auto in background. It was Palm Sunday, April 2, 1939, and the confirmation class of Immanuel United Church of Christ stood outside the church for a group shot with their minister, Rev. Frederick Schnadthorst, ninth from left. Left to right are Elaine Jensen Atchison, G...
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2018.38.1 - Album, Photograph
Album, photograph, 7 1/4"w x 11 1/4"l, black, cloth, 47 pages, black and white photos on both sides, Front- printed in goldtone, "Photographs", string tie. 3-6 photos per page documenting farm life. Farm life in Hanover Township is captured in this photo album of the Frederick (Fred) Hecht family. The farm was once located on north side of Irving Park Road between Barrington Road and Park Blvd. The family included Fred, his wife Amanda and chi...
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2020.60.44 - Transparency, Slide
Transparency, slide, color, 2" x 2", men & women dancing inside a building, people sitting along the wall watching. The drinks were flowing, the dance floor hopping…it was the Bartlett Volunteer Fire Department's April Showers Dance held on April 27, 1968, at the Fire Barn. The volunteers were once the social planners of many village events which also included the beloved annual Firemen's Festival.
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A06-15-4 - Trunk
Trunk, 28" w 19" d x 17" h, wood, metal hinges, operational lid, side metal handles, painted in black on lid- "Fred H Hecht, RFD Elgin, County Cook, Illinois, U. St. Amer", back- printed in black- oval with writing, left side handle- broken piece of wood attached with wire- written in black- "Fred H . Hecht..." and address as written on lid, left hinge not attached, possibly handcrafted. The Fred Hecht farm was once located on Irving Park Road...
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