1 50 3 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/49722/archive/files/d6512f60c1092f6ef93228ef8cf1966b.tif?Expires=1779926400&Signature=Yr6Gi9Af6zN6OZF4iu-zr9m7qYMiG5BBZqVnagQn2WFL6nDbRMVbdr%7EQKLvnU1NY8eAw-kOzC037gO8cmGvEl79LZbaB0eRKpLmj62JRV1346lqfDlL4OhjziwcKBoGo%7EUlAr%7EJHC9Tax1qnGRth9tTQCxiiCkm-YcKej-mvT8WfuaZH5yLFELgM6j71t9%7EuRsD9WOcYuGf4KPoJYdiMmU656Ca0tKVmOmSLxEwVl72119zOuDRdfMbd4eHIBiEAumnqpCVACpg4Onuva0XVNzH3KppRbYGR01Oc0ZSzWfHfHIq4ATIswBMBhUtnbSKBA87hhb3ZxPpsK%7Exx-GOt2g__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 22c01fabee51ec099120e22203510cc3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1936 photograph of two men looking at Woodstock Illinois' "singing mouse'. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Historical Photographs Description An account of the resource Photographs of Woodstock from the 1850s through the 20th Century Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Woodstock's Singing Mouse Description An account of the resource A mouse, caught at the Chicago Industrial Home for Children in Woodstock in 1936, brought fame and a bit of fortune to the city and the Children's Home. An article in Time magazine, December 28, 1936, tells the best version of the story. "Singing Mouse" "Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after day they searched for it high & low without success. Then one day the school manager heard the piping behind him, turned and beheld its astonishing source--a small, grayish brown mouse. Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delightof school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it faild to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said that he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have had 160,000 mice and I never had one that sang. If there is a singing mouse, I am open to conviction." To the mouse, renamed Minnie after examination by Zooman Bean, came a supreme test one evening last week. Up to a microphone in NBC's Chicago studios stepped the master of ceremonies of the NBC Jamboree to announce "the phenomenon of the century...the only mouse in the world who actually sings." Into the studio marched the Industrial School's tall, gaunt Manager Oscar Alva Allred, carring Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microhone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over a national network went faint, wavering chirps and trills. It sounded as much like a cricket as like a canary, but that Minnie really sang there was no doubt. After the broadcast a cage was fashioned of glass and cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press and newsreel photographers crowded around, snapped perky, self-assured Minnie until midnight. A Chicago hotel matched the Zoo's offer for her. Manager Allred held out for $1,000, hoped to get it from Walt Disney, whose singing mouse escaped a few months ago. How & why mice sing is a scientific mystery. Dr. Slye thought Minnie might have a respiratory condition similar to human rales. In 1932 Zoologist Lee R. Dice of University of Michigan suggested in the Journal of Mammalogy that all mice may sing, but on a pitch too high for the human ear unless the mouse has unusual vocal equipment. In other words, perhaps Minnie was a basso mouse. Dr. Dice, president of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, secured a singing mouse in 1926, has bred many descendents without producing another real songster. Last spring he reported to the Yale Institute of Human Relations the mouse's superiority to the canary as a musical pet. Observed he: "The musical mouse can be heard only 25 feet, so that the song is less irritating to the nerves and can be escaped easily by moving out of range." The Woodstock Sentinel followed the story with several articles. It turns out that there were two singing mice, Minnie and a daughter. On September 15, 1938, both were on exhibition at the Methodist Church as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Children's Home. Unfortunately, just a little over a month later, Minnie died at the age of two years, two months. The caption on the back of this photo identifies the event as Minnie signing her contract for a year of appearances on an unspecified "radio chain." Herbert Gensch is on the left and Robert Kendall from the radio chain is on the right. In the Woodstock Archives, the file folder is labelled "Woodstock--Biography--Mice, Famous." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Acme Newspapers, Inc. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kirk Dawdy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1936 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maggie Crane Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <p><a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/">NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY</a></p> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context AD2021 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 6" x 8" Photo Print Excellent Condition File Cabinet 6 Photos In Photos 1921 - 1950 notebook Buildings Seminary Avenue Woodstock Children's Home https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/49722/archive/files/df2675ec54c59e58ca9e0c7095ce6cc3.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=t104eNYp9%7E18a5RQtrCGbNjSdEP-3bpCdJYCjHbd4G%7E9GZ%7E4Vbx2vybo2W7V9KD8-5q%7EQak1xZ5FYqcZVaVPJMhs%7EtgEKJEXXbKDr6DSLTLWQ2pEfaUCvEooqX%7E55icG6EmmNRHEP6GWACrG6T3pvv6I3rCiQIry2aUvcUEAug%7ER%7ECoCrUE%7Ezulyj5UPpqfApKKH9B9AY2gP2KBBfHRf-gZjPpbn7nV-BWrgoOBLPVmH0zjWyEtXEuvLG-K3ow5PYYCv58MeR-v63M-caf5KvxWiFixTut0xI2RaMgEC0zrB1dJBDBpIRzuxJRImw0gx69Znt%7ED-5Wn-mVJ8A0FuGQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 1c1dd19e6fa8fd5e679c6efbbef67ecb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Black and white photograph of a two story building known as Grace Hall which was located on the Todd School for Boys campus in Woodstock, Illinois. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Todd School Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grace Hall - Todd School, circa 1921 Description An account of the resource Built in 1920-1921, the brick building provided accommodations for twenty-four students and six faculty members. It also housed the school's sound studio, laboratory, and photography dark room. Grace Hall was named in memory of Noble Hill's first wife, Grace Rogers Hill, who died in 1914. After Todd School closed in 1954, the building was purchased by the Woodstock Children's Home, later the Woodstock Christian Life Services. The building was torn down in 2010 to allow for the expansion of the WCLS campus. The Todd School for Boys (1848–1954) was an independent school located in Woodstock, Illinois founded by Reverend Richard Kimball Todd, a Presbyterian pastor. Under the guidance of Headmaster Noble Hill in the 1920s and Hill’s son Roger in the 1930s, it became known as a progressive school that provided students with a creative educational environment that emphasized practical experience over traditional academics. The main Todd School Campus was located on the northeast corner of the Rt. 47 (Seminary Ave) and Rt. 120 (McHenry Ave.) junction. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <p><a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/">NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY</a></p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1921~ 1900s Buildings Todd School Woodstock Children's Home https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/49722/archive/files/b977bbc35a156411c2a154fd89d4927d.jpg?Expires=1779926400&Signature=pUwB57FfzKxh%7EoWB7C8%7Em6X-z2gicVKHk%7EPPjgh5cs2juAtwOe953Kt1uiUWBseLxqQ4RK2hsXmob4Owgh9euKgsDeXSOtOHzkvTRtVomI3GBUCVE1lfn1TdrbeEXAPYP8b8DqfbuclnNYOv4vqE5mJx5QxdGsrZGxuP1Lf5GIkGlS8KANqeh%7E6stKlKeXOQs9urdnXn1ZQqVLFIyrDSt3lAhFRRVW1qpZUG0fMatynQiC5oo1JpYo3OT%7EBiZQjaFMvwy9P8zhDe1TGkhDL4XD4qiK6TSn652qkxn%7EvTkbnYw0qpoeFT-VrJSRol6ltnRlW2z1BSsMuj6KVWKYvKWg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM d9b77b5785174a8ad42dcb9201db0ebe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Circa 1910 colorized black and white postcard of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children on Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Historical Photographs Description An account of the resource Photographs of Woodstock from the 1850s through the 20th Century Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chicago Industrial Home for Children ca 1910 Description An account of the resource 840 N. Seminary Ave The Woodstock Children's Home was started in Chicago in1886 by the Rev. Thomas Brayton Arnold and his wife Teressa Richardson Arnold . It was incorporated in 1888 as the Chicago Industrial Home for Children. In 1897, the children's home was relocated to a farm on the north side of town in Woodstock, as a result of a donation by local resident Roxy D. Stevens. The name Chicago Industrial Home remained until sometime between 1946 & 1948 when it became Woodstock Children's Home. It was administered by the Free Methodist Church. This postcard was taken between 1909 (start of Wm G. Hoffman company) and 1910 (postmark). The card is numbered 709. In 1912, a large addition was erected. The Children's Home also included a second large home, Harrison House (formerly Grace Hall of Todd School) purchased in 1956. The operation closed in 1975. This building was demolished in 1983 to make room for Sunset Manor--a.k.a. Woodstock Christian Care/Hearthstone Manor/Hearthstone Communities Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wm. G. Hoffman, Chicago Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910~ Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <p><a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/">NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY</a></p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maggie Crane Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context AD172 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Postcard - Good Condition File Cabinet 6 Photos In Postcards notebook 1900s Buildings Postcard Seminary Avenue Woodstock Children's Home