Country Club of Decatur, Illinois, 1909 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Country Club of Decatur, Illinois, 1909, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Club house, G & T Tournament, 1909, Country Club of Decatur
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Country Club of Decatur, Illinois, 1909
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Decatur, Illinois, in 1909 was a manufacturing and railroad city of the Sangamon River valley, with its economy built on corn processing, farm implements, and freight moving over its rail lines. The A.E. Staley starch works had become one of the town's major employers, and the city's business leaders were the families most likely to belong to a private club of this kind. A country club in those years offered a place away from downtown for golf, dining, and summer social events, and it signaled a prosperous middle class at ease with leisure time. Decatur residents of the period would have known the city as a busy Macon County seat whose fortunes rose and fell with the grain trade and the factories along its tracks.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | international stereograph co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,239 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Club house, G & T Tournament, 1909, Country Club of Decatur |
| Reference | IL Country Club of Decatur 1909 |
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