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Marxen, Henry |
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2009.7.12 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, color, Front- eight people total, standing/sitting at a table inside a room. The Marxen family gathered for this pre-1961 picture around the family's dinning room table. They are, front row, left to right, Elmer Marxen (son), Henry Marxen (father), Anne Marxen (mother). Back row, left to right, Chester Marxen (son), Hank Marxen (son), Alex Marxen (son), Anne Marxen Dodds (daughter), Dorothy Marxen Menke (daughter).
Record Type: Photo
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2009.7.13 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, color, Front-two people total, one man, one woman, sitting indoors at a table eating, printed on boarder- "Apr 61" Henry Marxen (1876-1961), longtime Bartlett blacksmith, and his wife Anna (1879-1963) are enjoying a meal at the home of their son Chester Marxen, located at 215 S. Hickory Avenue in Bartlett.
Record Type: Photo
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2009.7.14 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, black & white, Front- one man, one woman, standing outside, home behind, printed on edge- "Jun 58" Anna Schroeder Marxen (1879-1963) and her husband Henry Marxen (1876-1961) pose in front yard of their home that once stood on Oak Avenue. Anna was born in Bensenville, IL. She married Henry in 1900. The couple's children were Elmer, Alexander, Henry, Chester, Dorothy and Anna. Henry was born in Germany and immigrated to the U...
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2009.7.2 - Image, digital
Image, digital, black and white, Font- six people total, 4 women, two men, standing outside, house behind. Members of the Marxen family gathered for this picture in 1958. They are, left to right, Anna Marxen (wife of Henry), Art Menke, Dorothy Marxen Menke, Virginia Marxen (wife of Elmer Marxen), Marge Klein Marxen (wife of Chester Marxen) and Henry Marxen.
Record Type: Photo
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2009.7.3 - Image, Digital
Image, digital, black & white, Front- on the porch of a home stands a women with back to photographer and someone sitting on porch swing. Who doesn't love a front porch complete with a swing! Here, Virginia Marxen (back to camera, wife of Elmer Marxen) and Henry Marxen (sitting, only legs can be seen) are on the front porch of the Henry Marxen home once located on S. Oak Avenue enjoying a chat on a summer's day.
Record Type: Photo
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2017.1.27 - Print, Photographic
Print, photographic, print 6" x 8", mat 8" x 10", black and white, three rows of children sitting and standing outside a brick building with a window. Women is standing next to them. Two boys in front row holding sign saying, "Room 1 Bartlett School." Back of mat- stamped in black ink, "J. M. MacFadyen, photographer, 1842 West Lake St. Chicago. Written in pen, "Front Row: William Fehlhaber, Frederick Baxman [sic, Baxmann], Leo Hecht, Harry Sch...
Record Type: Photo
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2017.22.15 - Horseshoe
Horseshoe, 7 1/4"h x 6 1/2" w, iron. Henry Marxen's blacksmith shop, once located on South Oak Avenue, was Bartlett's last blacksmith shop in operation. Marxen retired from the business in 1942. The shop was razed sometime after the mid 1950s. In the 1990s his home, just to the north of the shop, was razed. When the land was disturbed in 2018 for the new Police Department facility, horseshoes and other products were unearthed from the site of ...
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2018.9.11 - Image, digital
Image, digital, black and white, two small children and dog running down sidewalk, house and building in background. Edward Prehm, his sister Donna Prehm Barber and the family dog, run north down South Oak Avenue. In the background is the Franz Hesse home, later the Marxen family home (left) and the Marxen Blacksmith Shop (right). Both buildings have been razed. The blacksmith shop, Bartlett's last, was in operation for 50 years when it close...
Record Type: Photo
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2024.56.1 - Certificate, Birth
Certificate, birth, digital copy only, Front- "Affidavit of Parent for delayed registration of the birth of Anna Marxen, born on September 13, 1914 to Henry Marxen (village blacksmith) and his wife Anna Schroeder Marxen. Anna Marxen Dodds (1914-2004) was the eighth child born into the family. Anna attended Bartlett School and Immanuel United Church of Christ. She married Lawrence Dodds in 1934. She is buried in River Valley Memorial Gardens i...
Record Type: Archive
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2024.56.2 - Certificate, Citizenship
Certificate, citizenship, digital copy only (partial), of Henry Marxen, dated June 9, 1916. Henry Marxen was born in Germany on February 10, 1876. He immigrated to the United States in 1890. After living in Freedom, IL he moved to Bartlett where he opened and operated his Oak Avenue blacksmith shop for 50 years.
Record Type: Archive
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2024.56.3 - Tree, Family
Tree, family, digital copy only, one page, typed, Front- the family tree of Anna Schroeder Marxen, daughter of Louis Schroeder and Doris Biermann. Anna married Henry Marxen in February 1900. The couple, who had nine children, moved to Bartlett where Henry was a blacksmith. Anna's siblings and other family members are mentioned. The information was taken from the book, "The History of DuPage County of Year 1882."
Record Type: Archive
