 "Advent of the Pioneers, 1851" Mural 15' x 5' painted in 1938 by Frances Foy, second cousin of Emily Foy Biggins. In East Lobby of Chicago Main Post Office, 433 W. Harrison Street. Commissioned by U.S. Department of Treasury, Section of Fine Arts, for the Chestnut Street Post Office, where it hung opposite a mural entitled "Great Indian Council, Chicago—1833" by Gustaf Dalstrom, husband of Frances Foy. Photo by Mikal J. Sutherlin, U.S. Postal Service. Large image. |
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 Oil painting of an idyllic scene in Ostentrop, Germany, just to the north of the intersection of Mittelweg and St. Lucia Straße. To the right is a house built around 1740, which was the home of Johann and Elisabeth Bitter Drüecke from 1790 to 1798, and their descendants thereafter. To the left is a half-timbered structure built by Johann Drüeke in 1786, prior to their marriage. The structures are now owned by two brothers, Andre and Markus Eckert, who are renovating them for use as their own homes. Between the two structures in the background is St. Lucia Chapel. Source: Stefan Schröder. |
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 Eastward view of five of 18 sheep on portion of 21-acre Foy farm of Margaret and the late Thomas Joseph Kerrigan. Derreennascooba, south of Killavally (Killawalla), County Mayo, Ireland, 2007. Lough Nacorralea is in the background. Dominick and Anne Walsh Foy lived in Derreennascooba, where their son John Foy was born in 1848. Large image. |
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 Peter and Marilyn Carroll Biggins with children and grandchildren, Thanksgiving, 2016. Photo by in-laws. |
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 Carroll Family, circa 1910. Emma and David with their children Catherine and Edward. |
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 Ship Johannes by Jacob Boettger (German, 1781-1860), watercolor, 1835. Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum), Bremerhaven, Germany. Ship that brought the Schickell family from Bremen to Baltimore in 1834. |
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 Foy Apartments, 1035-41 W. Byron Street. Two blocks north of Wrigley Field. Built in 1914 by John F. Foy. |
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. Edward Carroll, first communion. Precious Blood Parish, Garfield Park, Chicago, 1914. |
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. Advertising poster for "Loreley" Sour Mash Whiskey Wm. Drueke Co., circa 1903-1910. |
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. 1874 Grand Rapids Directory ad. for the grocery store owned by Franz Berles. |
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 1875 Grand Rapids Directory ad, for the undertaking business of William Koch. |
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 Class of 1924 at St. Vincent de Paul grammar school in Chicago, with Al Biggins kneeling second from left in second row. Photo may have been taken in 1923 or 1922. See Alumni Association. |
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