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Terraced Drainage

Date: 1936
Description: A level pasture terrace showing water in the channel. These terraces, largely experimental, are built on the level, drainage being provided for by means of...
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Hillsboro and Northeastern Locomotive

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Description: Locomotive at the depot with what may be a coal car. The engineer is leaning out the window.
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General Allen Steamer — Near Riverside Store

Date: 1929
Description: View across water of the General Allen steamer pushing barges down the Mississippi River. Men are on the steamer, and two more men are standing on t...
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Road in the "Kickapoo Cut"

Date: 1920
Description: Road in the "Kickapoo Cut".
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Wooded Hillside

Date: 1964
Description: Wooded hillside and distant farm.
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View of Farmland

Date: 1937
Description: Peder G. Dahl farmland with crops on five contoured terraces.
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Abandoned Farmhouse

Date: 1962
Description: Abandoned farmhouse, rear view, along Highway 131.
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Hillsboro City Hall

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Description: Exterior view from street of Hillsboro's City Hall. It was constructed in 1937 with assistance from a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. The lowe...
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Bicycle Safety Instruction

Date: 1963
Description: Sterling Standiford, a State Trooper, talking to a group of local children on bicycle safety during National Bicycle Week. The activities took place outsid...
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Hillsboro Brewery

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Description: Elevated view of the Hillsboro Brewery when it was operated by Joseph Buzucha in the early 1900's.
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Water Avenue Fire

Date: 12 31 1990
Description: Firefighters battle a fire that engulfed Kruk's Drug Store and Hansen's Department Store. The pharmacy was to change ownership the next day.
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Downtown Automobile Race

Date: 07 04 1911
Description: Elevated view looking towards sidewalk and street of a crowd looking at automobiles lined up for a downtown race. According to Alan Picha of the Hillsboro ...
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Community Achievement Award

Date: 1961
Description: Dr. Thomas Boston and unidentified group standing outdoors on the lawn in front of a building (most likely St. Joseph's Hospital employees and State Medica...
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St. Joseph's Memorial Hospital Groundbreaking

Date: 08 07 1951
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of people posed on and around a crane and waving at the groundbreaking ceremony for St. Joseph's Memorial Hospital.
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Dr. MacKechnie and Daughter

Date: 1940
Description: Candid shot of Dr. R.S. MacKechnie, a local physician, and his daughter, (back to camera?) in a crowd outoors, taken at MacKechnie's retirement party.
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Woman at Hansberry Hospital

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Description: A woman (possibly a nurse) standing on the sidewalk in front of the sign at the entrance to Hansberry Hospital, Hillsburo's first hospital. It was establis...
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Hansberry Hospital

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Description: Three-quarter view from yard of Hansberry Hospital, Hillsburo's first hospital which was established by P.H. Hansberry in 1914. Two women stand on the left...
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Hansberry Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital

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Description: View across Field Veterans Memorial Lake towards St. Joseph's Memorial Hospital, built in 1953, alongside Hansberry Hospital, Hillsburo's first hospital es...
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Foreign Nuns Visit

Date: 08 26 1964
Description: Outdoor group portrait of woman posed on a lawn in front of a building, taken when eleven foreign Catholic nuns visited St. Joseph's Memorial Hospital. Sta...
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Otto and Mathilda Hammer

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Description: Otto and Mathilda Hammer in their large garden outside their home. Otto Hammer helped build the first sawmill in Hillsburo in 1855.

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