Booker Washington Center
Booker Washington Community Center, 524 Kent Street
City of Rockford Community Development Department
June 1979
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2012.66.157
Booker Washington Center
Booker Washington Community Center, 524 Kent Street
City of Rockford Community Development Department
June 1979
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2012.66.158
Booker Washington Center
Booker Washington Community Center, 524 Kent Street
City of Rockford Community Development Department
June 1979
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2012.66.159
Booker Washington Center
Booker Washington Community Center, 524 Kent Street
City of Rockford Community Development Department
June 1979
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2012.66.160
Booker T. Washington Center
The Booker T. Washington Center, United Way Agency, in September 1976.
City of Rockford Community Development Department
1976
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2012.66.902
Ellen Stiles School Sixth Grade
1979-1980 Ellen Stiles Elementary School, Grade 6. Stiles was located on LeClede Avenue.
Mueller's Studio
1980
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2006.97.23
Ellen Stiles School Staff, 1979
1979-1980 Ellen Stiles Elementary School Staff. Stiles was located on LeClede Avenue.
Mueller's Studio
1980
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2006.97.24
Ellen Stiles School Fifth and Sixth Grades
1980- 1981 Ellen Stiles Elementary School, Grade 5 & 6. Stiles was located on LeClede Avenue.
Mueller's Studio
1980-1981
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2006.97.25
Ellen Stiles School Sixth Grade
Ellen Stiles Elementary School, 1981-1982 Grade 6. Stiles was located on LeClede Avenue.
Mueller's Studio
1981-1982
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Ellen Stiles School Staff, 1981
Ellen Stiles Elementary School Staff, 1981-1982. Stiles was located on LeClede Avenue.
Mueller's Studio
1981-1982
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2006.97.27
Ellen Stiles School Staff, 1977
Ellen Stiles Elementary School Staff 1977-1978. Stiles was located on LeClede Avenue.
Mueller's Studio
1977-1978
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2006.97.28
William Dennis School Staff, 1958
William Dennis School Staff 1958-1959. Dennis School is located on Hudson Street.
Mueller's Studio
1958-1959
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2006.97.30
William Dennis School Staff, 1957
William Dennis School 1957-1958 Staff. Dennis School is located on Hudson Street.
Mueller's Studio
1957-1958
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2006.97.31
Lincoln Park School Eighth Grade Graduation
Lincoln Park Elementary School, at Springfield Avenue and West State Street, 8th Grade Graduation. Teacher Robert Bushaw is in the first row, to the right of two other adults.
Mueller's Studio
1964
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2006.97.19a
Rockford High School Class of 1906
The graduating class of 1906, Rockford High School. The high school was located on Madison Street. Desrette Hodges is the African-American student in the center of the back row.
Thompson's Art Shop, 125 N Main St, Rockford, Illinois
circa 1906
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African-American Laborers
A large group of African-American laborers pose as a group, the back row standing while the front row is on their knees. A wooden building or wall is in the background. The location and the individuals' names are unknown. A similar depiction can be seen in photo 88.122.777.
circa 1890 - 1900
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88.122.683
African-American Laborers
A large group of African-American laborers stand in the foreground of this photograph posing as a group with hats removed. A rough-looking wooden structure is in the background. The location is unknown.
circa 1890 - 1900
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88.122.777
African-American Work Crew
This photograph appears to show a large group of African-American men that may have been assembled as a work crew at an event. A long wooden structure appears in the background. The glass plate negative for this photo is broken into several pieces in the upper left portion.
circa 1895 - 1905
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88.122.812
Lincoln Park School, Grade 6, 1966-1967 class photo
A black and white photo of Lincoln Park School's 1966-1967 6th Grade class. Robert Bushaw is pictured in second row from bottom, far left. The class is racially-integrated.
Mueller's
1966-1967
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2006.97.20
Lincoln School
Lincoln School on Rockford's west side at Court Street and Park Avenue. Top Row: Mrs. Marie Taylor, Carl Ross, Bert Sames, Daisy Sames, Charlie Clifford, Minnie Gray, Frankie Reed, Jessie Williams, Morris Pendergrast, Lee Shaw, Prof. Stetson - Principal. Second Row from Top: Will Dagwell, Will Hampton, Fred Andrews, Bertha Ashton, Frank Bertrand, Charlie Lyman, Ella Hicks, George Smith, Johnnie Fellows. Next to Bottom row: Kate Barns, Hattie Warren, Minnie Chalmers, Mamie Ridgley, Susie Muckle, Kittie Flynn. Hattie Marsh, Shelley Blaisdell, Joe Barnes, Hattie Reed, Hattie Marsh, Maude Mandeville, Meta Gibson. Bottom Row: Belle Lockwood, Clara Ticknor, Dell Doty, Ida Phinney, Charlie Lawshee, Flo Bryant, Walter Martin, Stella Thayer, Maggie Westbrook, Charlie Hinckley, George McCoy, Amy Barnes, Carrie Lawshee, Elsie Gibson. Note the African American girl in the center back row is Jessie Williams. Her father James Williams was a member of Nevius GAR and a local barber. Lincoln School was renamed Franklin School in 1925 when Abraham Lincoln Junior High was opened.
circa 1881
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Lincoln Park School Eighth Grade Class
Lincoln Park Elementary School, at Springfield Avenue and West State Street, Grade 8 with teacher Mr. Robert Bushaw.
1948
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Lincoln Park School
Lincoln Park Elementary School, at Springfield Avenue and West State Street, Elementary School, at Springfield Avenue and West State Street, 8th Grade Graduation.
1964
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