In this week's Landmarks from DailySouthtown special sections issued by the Daily Southtown and Star Newspapers commemorating the end of the 20th century in 1999 relied heavily on the newspapers archive of historic photographs.
Special sections issued by the Daily Southtown and Star Newspapers commemorating the end of the 20th century in 1999 relied heavily on the newspapers archive of historic photographs, which would have been lost if not for photographer Mary Compton and a group of area historians.Homewood-based historian Elaine Egdorf had been sworn to silence by our mutual friend, Mary Compton, who died Christmas Eve after a yearslong battle with ovarian cancer.
Eventually, the former Peoples Store office with its sometimes-functioning escalators became too large for the remnants of what were once two bustling newsrooms. Company officials decided to sell the building to Menard’s, and less than a decade after celebrating centennials, the remaining Southtown workers had to figure out what to do with a vast accumulation of archival material.
“Mary told me who to call, gave me the number and told me who to ask for and what to ask for,” she said. “I did what she suggested and asked if we could have some of the photos. I had no idea what I was getting into.” Eventually, the SouthtownStar photographs and news clippings were distributed to historical groups across the south suburbs and beyond. Egdorf sent some to the Chicago History Museum, and many of the train photos went to the Lockport-based“I’m not sure what people did with some of these, but the historical societies took them back to their museums and archives,” Egdorf said.
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