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A trip to Chicago and Milwaukee
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A train ride north
After Harold Henry graduated from San Antonio's Main Avenue High School in 1914 he and his cousin Milton Arnold took a post graduation trip to Chicago and Milwaukee. They traveled by train. The album contains a single picture from St Louis indicating they may have had a short stopover there, perhaps changing trains before continuing on the Chicago. In addition to Chicago there are also pictures from Naperville and Ransome Illinois and Milwaukee Wisconsin. |
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The Parsonage picture below suggests to me that the trip may
have had a church connection. The family at this time were I think
still members of the Evangelical Church (later Evangelical and United Brethren,
still later returned to the United Methodist Church). Perhaps
Harold and Milton were attending a church youth meeting of some
sort. I do not know for sure.
The hand written label on the second picture in this group says Naperville. Illinois, College Campus. Apparently this is the North Central College campus that was founded at Naperville in 1861 and is still functioning as an independent, comprehensive college of the liberal arts and sciences today. The identification of the people in the picture is is not possible today.. Perhaps the young man second from the right is one or the other of the Arnold travelers. Could the guy on the left be one of them? Could either the maturing gentlemen 3rd from the left or the older man on the right end be the person in the walkway of the parsonage picture? |
| To day we think of Forest Park, Illinois as a well know Chicago suburb. The picture is captioned, "Forest Park- All aboard.!" The ship certainly is a photographer's prop as at an amusement park. The smoke streaming from the stack is obviously painted. .The picture though appears to have been taken with the Arnold camera, not a carnival picture concession. .Milton is the young man on the left. Harold Henry is on the right. The girls are unidentified. |
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The last two pictures from the trip were shot in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. The first of a downtown business district seems to have
been taken from the window of a railroad car. The second is of a tug boat
and the caption indicates it is towing a boat named the Christopher
Columbus into the Milwaukee River (Presumably from Lake Michigan).
The photographer is on the Columbus where he snapped the picture pointing
his camera toward the tug's stern with an interesting up-river view framed
by the upright sections of the draw bridge..
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