Negative

Photograph

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West Chicago City Museum

Name/Title

Negative

Entry/Object ID

2021.008.0018

Description

Negative, Kodak Safety film. Shows a group of men seated around a t-shaped group of tables; City Council meeting from February of 1956. The floor is checkered, and there is a large window with an American Flag on a pole in front of it in back. Most of the men are in suits; there is a man on the right in a plaid flannel shirt. There is a clock and calendar on the left wall. Landscape orientation. (The image attached is the positive scan of the negative.) This was the scene in city hall as elected and appointed officials met with the City Council and heard Mayor Walter Fawell proclaim a period of mourning on the death of Congressman Chauncey W. Reed. Included in the photograph are Ridell Kelsey, Walter Fawell, Mayor, and Felix Myles McFarland. Left back row: (front to back) Robert Schacht, Rupert Hunt, Joseph Buenrostro, Harold Spelman. Left front row: (front to back) John Grames, Willis Gladding & Walter "Wally" Mackert. Right (front to back): John Vescelus, William "Bim" Frazer, Frank Schact (Supt. of Public Works), Martin Brown, Wayne Fox and Edwin Waffenschmidt. Man on far right, back row is Mr. Miller.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

City of West Chicago

Made/Created

Date made

Feb 1956

Time Period

20th Century

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Negative

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

4x5

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Kelsey, Ridell Archibald Jr., Fawell, Walter Raymond, McFarland, Felix, Schacht, Robert William, Hunt, Rupert, Buenrostro, Joseph, Spelman, Harold, Grames, John A., Gladding, Willis Delancy Jr., Mackert, Walter John, Vescelus, John, Frazer, William, Brown, Martin Fred, Fox, Wayne S., Waffenschmidt, Edwin, Miller, Reed, Chauncy William

General Notes

Note

Identification from Facebook post