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Members of the Tuesday Morning Musical Club in 1962. Image from Tuesday Morning Musical Club Records, 1898-2014, series 1, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Photograph of Marajen Stevick Chinigo and two of her dogs.

20th century portrait of Marajen Stevick Chinigo on her terrace of her villa in Ravello, Italy.

Portrait of Minnie Jaques

Portrait of Morris Lowenstern (1836-1916), owner of M. Lowenstern & Co.

Everett Block believed this was a self-portrait of J.J. Fisher. Note that the individual is holding a camera.

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.

Everett C. Block (1921-2000) was born in Champaign County to Hilbert and Ella Lehmkuler
Block. He was the great-grandson of August Block for whom Block Station was named. Besides collecting
and curating an extensive collection of glass plate…

Note bright lower left hand corner and streak through the center of print. Also noteworthy, the accoutrements of an artistic young lady: tea serving set, parlor guitar, and violin.

The Kammin family lived in the farmhouse where the glass plate negatives were found from the 1920s-1930s. William Kammin (1902-1988) had removed thirteen glass plate
negatives from the attic and taken them with him when he moved. He loaned these…