Source: Northwest Quarterly Magazine, Winter 2018, page 125
Jean Lythgoe
“We Can Do It” – WWII recipe booklet
Camp Grant
Source: postcard for sale on www.ebay.com photo is from 1917
Source: Rockford Register Republic 3/2/1941
Source: above photos of baseball players, from Camp Grant Clippings April 20, 1942 – July 7, 1942
Source: Rockford Register Republic 4/29/1942 & Camp Grant Clippings April 20, 1942 – 7-Jul-42
Source: Camp Grant Clippings April 20, 1942 – 7-July 1942
Source: Camp Grant Clippings April 20, 1942 – 7-Jul- 1942
Source: Rockford Morning Star 12/11/1957
Source: Rock River Times November 10-16, 2010 Vol. 18, No. 3
Rockford Public Library – NSDAR
The Rockford chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution donates genealogical book to the Rockford Public Library
Source: Senior Courier, February 2011
501 N. Longwood St.
Source: http://maps.google.com, July 2012
Source: Jean Lythgoe, December 2014
Source: Jean Lythgoe, December 2014
Source: Jean Lythgoe, December 2014
Source: Jean Lythgoe, December 2014
Calvin Park Boulevard – urns
Source of photographs: Jean Lythgoe, November 2014 [pillars and urns put up summer or fall 2014.jl]
. SHEPARD ‘SHEP’ BLUMENTHAL ROCKFORD – Returned to his home place with his Father God, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Son of Leo and Julia (Wolfson) Blumenthal. Shep was born in Rockford on October, 23, 1931 [source: Rockford Register Star, June 22, 2014.
Armstrong Clothing Co.
Armstrong Clothing Co. Profit-Sharing Certificate
Armstrong Clothing Co., 315-317 West State St., Rockford advertised first in 1895. In 1923 they printed a coupon, called a certificate. In Sept-Oct. 1926 the building was razed. Later that year the Talcott Building began construction at that address.
Source of certificate: Stanley E. F. Campbell in “Growing Up in Rockford” on www.Facebook.com
Source of text: Jean Lythgoe and assorted Rockford newspapers
Nuggets of History
Publication of Rockford Historical Society
Jean Lythgoe has been an officer in Rockford Historical Society
first issue is Vol. 1 No. 1, November-December 1963 Editorial office in 1962 was in Ash Johnson’s home at 2011 Guilford Rd.
“Hazel Hyde Prepare Index for Nuggets of History” Sept-Oct 1974
(Still printing issues in 2014)
Source: Actual issues of Nuggets of History, available in Local History collection