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The second band on the Frande wagon in the street parade. Cole Bros Circus, July 17, 1937.

Spec coming out of big top. Cole Bros. Circus, July 17, 1937.

Photograph of interior of Andrews Wire and Iron Works

Advertising postcards ; Picture postcards Text printed on front of card: H.W. Buckbee, Rockford seed farms, Forest City greenhouses, Rockford, Ill. Send for free catalogue. Color postcard. Depicts thr…

(Left to right) Charles Kitto of Beloit, Wisconsin; W. L. Jackman, Madison attorney; Helen Kitto, Beloit, Wisconsin and wife of Charles Kitto; and Faye O. Braathen. July 17, 1937.

Located in the Waterworks Building, 100 block Park Avenue circa 1900.

(Left to right) Faye O. Braathen and Genevieve Cannestrelly. Ringling Barnum Circus, August 9, 1937.

The Library. Historic Tinker Swiss Cottage, 411 Kent St., Rockford, Ill. This room, two stories high, Gothic style, Octagonal shape, was copied after Sir Walter Scott's Library in Abbotsford, Scotland…

(Left to right) Harry and Peggy Baker. English.

Built for Svea Soner Singing Society, 1893-1896. The society's music hall (2nd floor) was sometimes used as a vaudeville venue, and the ground floor housed a branch of Rockford Public Library, 1904-19…

(Left to right) Margueritte Gretona and Otto Gretona, high wire performers, Cole Bros. Circus, July 17, 1937.

North side of 100 block, West State Street, Rockford, circa 1870

Robert Tinker was mayor of Rockford, Illinois, for a one year term in 1875.

Jinx Adams on a horse.

(Left to right) Jackie and William Wilcox, Cole window card lithographers, July 4, 1947.

The spec in rings and on track.

View of a circus parade taken from "window of Dr. Karned's office, 200 block of West State Street, Rockford, on August 29, 1896."

President Roosevelt spoke at this dedication of Memorial Hall, 200 block North Main Street, on June 31, 1903. The structure honors veterans and the G.A.R. met here.

In 1910 the Hess Brothers built a department store at 516-528 East State Street. It was one of the largest dry goods stores in Illinois when completed.

Built in 1845. The date on the facade was a joke to suggest a modern, larger building was needed, replaced in 1877. The steeples belong to Second Congregational Church and the German Lutheran Church.