Godfrey Photograph Collection (58 total)

The Godfrey photograph collection contains black-and-white photographic prints from various sites in Madison County during the 1890s through the 1930s. The collection is held at the SIUE Archive.

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	1910 Photograph of Edwardsville High School Football Team	This 1910 photograph shows three rows of boys, with the boy in the front holding a football. The boys are seated outside in front of an exterior doorway. All are dressed in athletic clothing.	1910	September 30, 2025
	1895 Photograph Children at Irishtown School	1895 class photograph of children at Irishtown School. Approximately 35 children stand in staggered lines with one older man standing in the rear line. They are all standing in front of the side of a white building. All of the children are barefoot and are wearing dresses or shirts and trousers.	September 26, 1895	September 30, 2025
	Photograph of white square building with white fence and trees in foreground	Photograph of an unknown white building with two sets of fences. The first one is a white picket fence, and the second one is an iron fence with brick bottom.	1880 - 1910	September 30, 2025
	1909 Photograph of Memorial Day at Oakwood Cemetery in Alton, Illinois	This 1909 photograph shows a band from the Western Military Academy standing on a path in a cemetery. Behind the band are a group of well-dressed old men holding flowers. The men wear medals on their coats. The photo was likely taken at the Oakwood Cemetery, or Upper Alton Cemetary, for Memorial Day 1909.	1909	September 30, 2025
	1898 Photograph of Wm. C. Kriege & Co. Tent at Free Street Fair in Edwardsville, Illinois	1898 photograph of WM. C. Kriege & Co. tent at a free street fair, in Edwardsville, Illinois. The tent displays a variety of goods including buggies, bicycles, and stoves.	1898-10-12 - 1898-10-15	September 30, 2025
	Photograph of The "Palace Eagles" Basketball Team	This photograph shows two rows of young men, with a child holding a basketball centered in the first row. The men are wearing jerseys that show the team name of "Palace Eagles." Two men in casual clothing stand in the second row on each side. The Palace Eagles were a basketball team in Madison County, Illinois.	Circa 1930	September 30, 2025
	Stereograph Photographs of a Man on Main street with a Carriage and Stores	Two photographs, likely for a stereograph, of a man standing in the middle of a street lined with two-story stores, with two horse-drawn carriages behind him. Stores signs include "HARD WARE," "STORE JANDT & REED," "G. W. MILLER'S BLOCK," "DRUG STORE," and "POGUE'S BOOK STORE."	Circa 1890	September 30, 2025
	Photograph of St. John's Methodist Church in Edwardsville, Illinois	This photograph shows a street view of the St John's Methodist Church in Edwardsville, Illinois. There are seven people standing outside the church facing the view of the camera. A wagon is also visible in the bottom right corner of the photo.	Circa 1890	September 30, 2025
	1896 Photograph of Carlyle School Class with American Flag	1896 photograph of a high school class in what is likely Carlyle, Illinois. Approximately 58 children sit in rows in front of a brick building with two windows on the building with a large American flag hanging behind the children.	September 17, 1896	September 30, 2025
	1898 Photograph of Free Street Fair in Edwardsville, IL from a Second Story Window View	1898 photograph of a free street fair, taken from a second-story window view in Edwardsville, Illinois. The street is lined with buildings and occupied by a stage, tents, and groups of people. American flags are displayed on most structures.	1898-10-12-15	September 30, 2025