Images: Through the Film Magnifier, Disco Dancing, Walter Payton, Vietnam protests and more
Posted January 27, 2020 3:00 am
See vintage Daily Herald photos of disco dancing, Walter Payton, kids rock band, Vietnam protest and more in our latest Through the Film Magnifier gallery.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 51,812-A, Charles Cherney photo: Chicago Bears legendary running back Walter Payton and fellow running back Roland Harper at the Bears media day in August of 1979.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 51,945, Bob Finch photo: Mender of Soles, Joe Balian, swings a mean hammer at his shoe repair shop in Palatine in August of 1979. "Shoes are not made like they used to," he lamented, but as long as they keep wearing out business will be good.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 15,033, Bob Finch photo: The Faces of War showed up at the Arlington Heights train station in October of 1969. Students from Northwestern University demonstrated as part of the nationwide moratorium against the Vietnam War.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 15,033, Bob Finch photo: The Faces of War showed up at the Arlington Heights train station in October of 1969. Students from Northwestern University demonstrated as part of the nationwide moratorium against the Vietnam War.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 15,033, Bob Finch photo: The Faces of War showed up at the Arlington Heights train station in October of 1969. Students from Northwestern University demonstrated as part of the nationwide moratorium against the Vietnam War.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 30,454, Jim Frost photo: Julie Nixon Eisenhower met student at teachers at Eisenhower Junior High School in Hoffman Estates in October of 1973. She was attending the dedication ceremony of the school. She was substituting for here husband David who was unable to attend the dedication named after his grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 30,454, Jim Frost photo: Julie Nixon Eisenhower met student at teachers at Eisenhower Junior High School in Hoffman Estates in October of 1973. She was attending the dedication ceremony of the school. She was substituting for here husband David who was unable to attend the dedication named after his grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 30,454, Jim Frost photo: Julie Nixon Eisenhower met student at teachers at Eisenhower Junior High School in Hoffman Estates in October of 1973. She was attending the dedication ceremony of the school. She was substituting for here husband David who was unable to attend the dedication named after his grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 51,873, Bob Ringham photo: These disco dancers in Chicago were part of an assignment called Disco Faces in August of 1979.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 51,873, Bob Ringham photo: These disco dancers in Chicago were part of an assignment called Disco Faces in August of 1979.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 51,873, Bob Ringham photo: These disco dancers in Chicago were part of an assignment called Disco Faces in August of 1979.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 51,873, Bob Ringham photo: These disco dancers in Chicago were part of an assignment called Disco Faces in August of 1979.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # unknown, Larry Cameron photo: The highlight of the second annual photo competition at Randhurst Center was a special exhibit featuring Paddock Publications use of photojournalism. The display included photographs from several award-winning newspaper series as wells staff portraits of the late President Kennedy, Sen. Douglas, Sen. Goldwater and Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the original caption from May the May 12, 1964 Daily Herald.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # unknown, Larry Cameron photo: Some of the judges of the second annual photo competition at Randhurst Center looking at the entries in May of 1964 in Mount Prospect.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # unknown, Larry Cameron photo: The highlight of the second annual photo competition at Randhurst Center was a special exhibit featuring Paddock Publications use of photojournalism. The display included photographs from several award-winning newspaper series as wells staff portraits of the late President Kennedy, Sen. Douglas, Sen. Goldwater and Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the original caption from May the May 12, 1964 Daily Herald.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 51,848, Bob Ringham photo: White makeup, glittered costumes and a little creativity made these four Streamwood youngsters rock stars for a few days. Rick Rooney, 11, Jack Gells, 11, Mark Gells, 10 and Dan Rooney (front), 9, put on a neighborhood concert imitating the Ron group "Kiss" to was their summer vacation boredom in August of 1979.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 28,983, Dom Najolia photo: Kids lined up to sit on and pet a pony during pet day at Immanuel Lutheran School in Palatine in April of 1973.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 28,983, Dom Najolia photo: A leash helped this student keep track of her cat during pet day at Immanuel Lutheran School in Palatine in April of 1973.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment 90,112, Mark Welsh photo: Circus lions were on display at Liberty Buick-Jeep in Libertyville in November of 1987.
The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 97,975, Rich Chapman photo: Jonathan Bujarski, left, and Frank Finek and his son Frankie, of Lombard partake in a fishing derby that was part of the Hoffman Estates 30th anniversary celebration in June of 1989.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 45,728, Barry Jarvinen photo: The kicks were flying during a women's self-defense class in Hoffman Estates in November of 1977.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 32,744, Dom Najolia photo: Children gathered for a bedtime story hour at the Elk Grove Village library in July of 1974.
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 32,744, Dom Najolia photo: Children gathered for a bedtime story hour at the Elk Grove Village library in July of 1974.
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