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See what DeKalb County looked like more than 100 years ago through vintage postcards! At 12 p.m. on Sunday, February 9, at the Glidden Homestead, 921 W. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, collector EvaAnne Johnson will share some of her most interesting historic postcards, including local landmarks, businesses, and street scenes. She will also discuss methods for dating old postcards and how to start a postcard collection.
Johnson is a local history and genealogy librarian with more than 350 DeKalb County postcards in her personal collection. Program begins at 12 p.m. $5 general admission, free for Glidden members. Soup and house tours are included.
The Glidden Homestead is open every Sunday, 12-4 pm. Soup-er Sundays are held on the second and fourth Sundays of the month, January through March. Stop by for a program, then tour the historic homestead where Joseph F. Glidden created “The Winner” barbed wire, one of the most widely-used types of barbed wire that helped change the history of the American West, and the world.
Soup-er Sunday programs support the J.F. Glidden Homestead & Historical Center in DeKalb, a not-for-profit organization working to preserve the home and barn, both listed on the National Register of Historic Places, while providing educational opportunities to the public. For more information, call 815-756-7904, visit www.gliddenhomestead.org or email [email protected]
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J. F. Glidden Homestead & Historical Center, 921 W Lincoln Hwy, Dekalb, IL 60115-3011, United States,DeKalb, Illinois
