History is alive in each person’s family, their work, and their everyday life and their community.

Each home has reems of history in their own possessions – pieces of jewelry or housewares passed down from generation to generation, recipes for Gramma’s special biscuits and cranberry sauce, Great-Grandad’s tools, and of course the family photograph album.

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College of DuPage held a contest for people in the College of DuPage area to send in a favorite family photograph with an accompanying 50-75 word narrative for exhibition at the Gahlberg Gallery held Thursday Feb. 21 to Thursday, March 28, 2002.

The exhibition was arranged in six categories:
• The Family
• People at Work
• People in Uniform
• Women’s History
• The Immigrant in America
• People in Arts, Sports, Leisure

Examples from the exhibition:
Click on thumbnail for picture and essay (which appear in separate browser windows).

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