Glen Carbon Heritage Museum Photograph Collection (156 total)

These photographs, digitized by the Glen Carbon Heritage Museum, are from some of the museums collections: the St. Louis Press Brick Company, churches, coal mining, farming, social organizations, railroads, and sports.

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	The Shale Pit	Edwardsville Intelligencer, January 11, 1894 “Chicago’s city council has given Glen Carbon brick an endorsement that will make the product from shale in this locality rank with the highest quality of brick manufactured. The Council Monday evening adopted what is known as the ‘brick ordinance.’ The ordinance provides that the quality of bricks used in the City of Chicago must be of equal quality as those being manufactured in Glen Carbon.”	Unknown	December 8, 2016
	The St. Louis Brick Yard Workers	The St. Louis Press Brick Company was once of the interests of the Niedringhaus Family of Granite City and St. Louis. The brick ward began operations about 1891 and was the largest brick manufacturing plant in the State of Illinois at the time. The company earned a reputation as manufacturing the finest bricks to be found and local lore insists that the company produced all of the bricks used in the construction of the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. In addition to manufacturing paving and building bricks, the company produced beautiful decorative bricks. Hundreds of men from neighboring communities where employed by the brick company. Several boarding houses as well as rows of “company houses” were constructed for employees. The employees had their own ball team, an active union, and a park for social activities.	Unknown	December 8, 2016
	Tish Miccer at the Illinois Central Railroad Station	“I am the ambitious looking guy, sitting there, look like I’m waitin’ for a freight, eh?” –Tish	June 5, 1939	December 8, 2016
	Train Arriving at the Glen Carbon Train Station	Train arrives at the Glen Carbon train station to pick up passengers. Both the Illinois Central Railroad and Clover Leaf railroad provided passenger service to St. Louis several times a day, beginning at 6:00 am. One could spend the say in St. Louis, watch the Veiled Prophet parade, and still catch the 10:10 pm train home.	Unknown	December 8, 2016
	Twelve Women in Regalia	Twelve Women in Regalia with banners in the background labeled “Unselfishness, Faith, and Modesty.”	Unknown	December 8, 2016
	Two coal miners carrying their lunches	Two young men coal miners carrying their lunch in the town of Glen Carbon, Illinois	Unknown	December 8, 2016
	Two coal miners inside the mines standing on the tracks	Two coal miners inside the mines standing on the tracks. The two men are Charles Thraxton (on the left) the mine superintendent and the other is Mr. Coleson who was also a violin teacher.	1912	December 8, 2016
	Two Coal Miners Working in a Glen Carbon Mine	This photograph shows two workers operating a coal cutting machine in a Glen Carbon mine.	Unknown	December 8, 2016
	Two Men behind the Glen Carbon Railroad Station	Two Men at the rear of the old frame red and yellow painted Illinois Central Station. The man on the right is Herman G. Keiser and the man on the left is unidentified rail car oilier.	Unknown	December 8, 2016
	Two men standing outside the coal mine	Two men standing outside the coal mine. You can see different buildings as well as coal carts.	August 20, 1908	December 8, 2016