Photo of Log Cabin
Glass Negatives
Photography -- Negatives
Rural Conditions
Country Life
One of the three original negatives developed by the University of Illinois photo lab.
Everett C. Block Collection, 1902-2000, bulk 1902-1910.
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Historical Society Article
Photography -- Negatives
Glass Negatives
Block Family
After the Sidney Spring Festival, Block continued to display the photographs and speak to local community groups.
Everett C. Block Collection, 1902-2000, bulk 1902-1910, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
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Newspaper Scan
Photo of a Man, Maybe J.J. Fisher
Glass Negatives
Photography -- Negatives
Country Life
Rural Conditions
Everett Block believed this was a self-portrait of J.J. Fisher. Note that the individual is holding a camera.
Everett C. Block Collection, 1902-2000, bulk 1902-1910, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
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Photo of the Luther Fisher House
Photography -- Negatives
Glass Negatives
Country Life
House of Luther Fisher, farmer and
owner of a real estate and insurance office in Sidney, Illinois. Luther Fisher (1850-1925) married Eunice
Guard (1853-1941). They had four children. Their daughter Leah (1884-1975) and husband Clyde Busey
(1880-1951) also lived here. The house is still standing (2016) at 1836 CR 1000N, Urbana, Illinois.
Everett C. Block Collection, 1902-2000, bulk 1902-1910, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
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Photo of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad #1
Sidney (Ill.)
Glass Negatives
Photography -- Negatives
Country Life
Rural Conditions
Cut for the C&EI railroad. What is special
about this photograph is the photographer has etched his name in the emulsion on the back of the
plate. If you look in the upper right corner you can see the mirror image of ‘J.J. Fisher [space] Sidney.’
Everett C. Block Collection, 1902-2000, bulk 1902-1910, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
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Photo of Cottrel/Eaton/Gerald House
Glass Negatives
Sidney (Ill.)
Photography -- Negatives
Country Life
Rural Conditions
This is the only picture in the original 210 negatives developed by Block that features snow. Lighting and exposure times became trickier in snowy conditions. The house is still standing (2016) at 101 West Prairie Street, Sidney, Illinois but has been remodeled.
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Photo of the Thompson Farmhouse
Farms
Farm Life
Country Life
Glass Negatives
Photography -- Negatives
Sidney (Ill.)
The glass negative for this picture as well as 200+ others were found in the house’s attic in 1946, by Everett Block. Archibald Thompson and his family lived in the house in the early 1900s. The Kammin family lived in the
house from the 1920s-1930s, and Everett Block and his family resided there from 1946-1963. The house
was torn down in 1993. Pictured here are Archibald Thompson (1838-1915) and his daughter Eva. Eva would later move to Lander, Wyoming. The house was at the West edge of the NE ¼ of Section 21, in Sidney Township, south of Sidney, Illinois.
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Photo of Two Women with Chicks
Taylor Family
Photography -- Negatives
Glass Negatives
Farm Life
Farms
Country Life
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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Photo of Child in Washtub
Taylor Family
Glass Negatives
Photography -- Negatives
Rural Conditions
Country Life
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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Photo of Hess/Smock House
Photography -- Negatives
Glass Negatives
Country Life
Rural Conditions
Sidney (Ill.)
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 is still standing
(2016) at 311 S. David Street, Sidney, Illinois.
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