View of the Woodstock Square Park with a Macks Sign on Spring House
Title
View of the Woodstock Square Park with a Macks Sign on Spring House
Description
Woodstock Square park with the Spring House as the focal point. The sign "The Macks Tonight" dates the photo:
Keep your eye on THE FRONT WINDOW
Don’t fail to be at J. J. Stafford’s afore at 7:30 o’clock sharp Wednesday night and witness the novel fete of hypnotizing over the long distance telephone by the Great Mack of the Mack’s Hypnotic Comedy company. The Macks have a national reputation and are people of the highest moral and literary entertainers, whom to meet and to know is a real pleasure. The spectacle to be witnessed at the opera house has never been witnessed in this city before. No such artists In this line of work have ever visited this section. That the theatre will be turned into a merrymaking place as well as a school of instruction cannot again be said. All the tests and experiments, especially the comical ones, are the embodiment of entertainment. [Woodstock Sentinel Sept. 5, 1912]
C.R. Childs published the postcard, numbered G245. Charles R. Childs was a prominent Chicago photographer and post card manufacturer from about 1906 until the 1950s. He sent photographers out on the interurban trains to various towns in the Midwest to capture views that would be saleable. He specialized in "real photo" postcards.
Keep your eye on THE FRONT WINDOW
Don’t fail to be at J. J. Stafford’s afore at 7:30 o’clock sharp Wednesday night and witness the novel fete of hypnotizing over the long distance telephone by the Great Mack of the Mack’s Hypnotic Comedy company. The Macks have a national reputation and are people of the highest moral and literary entertainers, whom to meet and to know is a real pleasure. The spectacle to be witnessed at the opera house has never been witnessed in this city before. No such artists In this line of work have ever visited this section. That the theatre will be turned into a merrymaking place as well as a school of instruction cannot again be said. All the tests and experiments, especially the comical ones, are the embodiment of entertainment. [Woodstock Sentinel Sept. 5, 1912]
C.R. Childs published the postcard, numbered G245. Charles R. Childs was a prominent Chicago photographer and post card manufacturer from about 1906 until the 1950s. He sent photographers out on the interurban trains to various towns in the Midwest to capture views that would be saleable. He specialized in "real photo" postcards.
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Source
Jim Keefe Collection
Date
1912
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Citation
C. R. Childs, “View of the Woodstock Square Park with a Macks Sign on Spring House,” Woodstock Public Library Archives, accessed February 6, 2026, https://woodstockpubliclibraryarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1400.
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