Three photographs posted by the Wisconsin Historical Society offer a glimpse of a sunny June day in Thornton when students from schools throughout south Cook County gathered to celebrate the end of…
A group of Dolton School musicians gather for a photo during a June 1916, Cook County School Festival in Thornton in this image provided by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The months of hard work and drudgery were highlighted by moments of mirth, friendships formed and the shared goal of looming summer freedom.
A series of three images collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society capture scenes from a sunny June day in 1916, when students and teachers from throughout the area gathered for the Cook County School Festival in Thornton.— long before no-mow May became popular — carrying American flags as a large group of people young and old watch the procession.youngsters, ladies in bonnets and sunhats and men mostly wearing straw boaters, assembled to watch an event at the festival.
One of the images shows a handmade banner with a Union shield proudly identifying a Cook County contingent from School District 149, based miles to the north in Dolton and Calumet City. There is no word if the children were marched to the event south of Thornton. The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company consolidated with several smaller firms to form International Harvester in 1902. It was even more of an industrial powerhouse which, by the 1930s, was one of the 10 largest companies in the world.
They also took photographs at these events for use in lantern slide presentations to civic groups, and images from “anywhere International Harvester had a dealership or were showing off one of their trucks” would get sent back and filed away at the headquarters in Chicago.
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