Photographs Part 3

Enjoy a selection of the glass negative photographs found in the Everett C. Block Collection. To view more, please see the Champaign County Historical Archives' collection on Flickr

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Unidentified child in washtub. After Everett Block printed and displayed the photographs in Sidney, Illinois and the surrounding areas, additional negatives or prints were given to him by other local families. This print is from the Taylor family.

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Unidentified. The table in front of the two ladies is an incubator and the young chicks are spilling out on the ledge. This print is from the Taylor family.

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Wrisk/Everhart/Olds House, 947 CR 2050 East, Sidney, Illinois. John Wrisk (1857-1926) was born in Madison, Indiana, but lived in the vicinity of Sidney nearly all his life. He owned a farm near the corporate limits of Sidney. In 1897, he married Lettie Burnes (1870-1915) of Sidney and they had five children, Nellie, Bessie, Joseph, Wilbur, and Jay Willard. Pictured, left to right, are Archie Thompson, Vern Wrisk, John Wrisk, Pauline Wrisk, and Kate Wrisk. The house was still standing as of 2020. 

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Hess/Smock House, 311 S. David Street, Sidney, Illinois. Built by Merriam Hess, contractor and insurance agent, in 1894. Pictured in the photo, left to right, are Oral Vera Hess (1892-1970), Clara Wilson Hess (1866-1940), and Merriam Hess (1862-1931). Vera Hess was superintendent of home economics at Ishpeming, Michigan high school for 17 years. In 1942, she married Reverend Guy Edward Smock, and returned to live in her family home until her death in 1970. The house was still standing as of 2020.

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Log Cabin. One of the three original negatives developed by the University of Illinois photo lab.