Society Photo Archive


The St. Francis Historical Society has collected over 1500 photographs over the years. Most have been donations from members and businesses in St. Francis. If you photographs that you would like to donate, please contact us!

Captions for the photo collection have been entered into the Society's Past Perfect database through countless hours of work by Barbara Janiszewski. Recently, Jan Pientok has continued data entry efforts. Original photos have been scanned at high resolution for copies and printing, and low resolution (with the SFHS watermark) for display on the website by Randy S. Borland.

The Society's Photograph Archive is grouped into the topics presented below. To locate a desired photo, open ("click on") one of the topics and review the list of captions. Or, once in a topic page, use the search option on your browser to search the captions. Alternatively, a PDF file is provided that contains all captions grouped by topic number. Simply open the file, search it for the key word, etc., make note of the topic categoty (Cat.) number, and go to that category.

Originals of any of the photos in the Society Collection may be viewed at the Society's Research Room. Copies of photos may also be purchased from the Society.

PDF File Containing All Photo Captions

Cat. Description Number of Photos
5 Boy Scouts 12
6 Lakeside Power Plant 49
8 Fire Department 7
9 Police Department 6
11 Lake Protestant Cemetery 54
13 St. Francis / Bay View Legion Post & VFW 1
14 Miss St. Francis Pagent 146
15 Trains 51
16 Sacred Heart Church 56
17 St. Francis Savings & Loan 3
18 St. Francis Association of Commerce 5
21 St. Francis Recreation Department 14
22 St. John's School For The Deaf 13
23 St. Francis High School 63
24 City of St. Francis 83
26 St. Francis Library 34
28 Town of Lake 11
30 St. Francis Seminary 41
31 St. Francis School District 7
32 Thompson School 111
33 Harnischfeger 2
34 Faircrest (St. Francis Heights) School 26
35 Willow Glen School 33
36 St. Francis Historical Society 275
38 St. Francis Lions Club 39
39 St. Francis Days 133
40 Polish Legion of American Veterans (PLAV) 1
41 Parks 26
42 Industry 1
43 Chapel-In-The-Woods 3
44 Lakeshore Development 2
45 St. Aemilian's Orphanage 7
46 Historic Houses, Buildings & Places 23
47 Lupo House 29
51 Sisters of St. Francis Assisi 2
52 Dittmore-Freimuth Corporation 50
53 People 63
54 Photinia (British Freighter) 3
55 St. Francis 4th of July 9
56 Business 12
60 Kitzinger 16
61 Bridges 25
64 Veteran's Memorial Park 10
68 St. Mary's Academy 3
69 Cupertino Tree 20
72 Black Bear Soda 1