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Portrait of C. V. Boller.
Image of Mr. C. V. Boller taken from "Up From the Ranks," Among Ourselves, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the Employees of Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, vol. 1, no. 9 (June 1904): 435.
Portrait of C. V. Boller circa 1913.
The photo was taken from a page of the C. V. Boller Company's spring 1913/summer 1913 mail order catalog held in the the Lawrence B. Romaine Trade Catalog Collection by the Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library at the University of…
Piano Recital by the Pupils of Miss Ada A. Boller.
A three page program of a piano recital given by the students of Miss Ada A. Boller, Mr. Boller's sister, on Saturday, June 7, 1902 at 8 p.m. at Ryder Memorial Church on Kimball Avenue near 64th Street in Chicago, Illinois. The first piece was…
Photo of unknown man "In the Garden at Rondebosch Cape Town So. Africa, 1903"
Cropped image of a faded photo on page 90 of Mr. Boller's scrapbook. The photo was taken on a family trip to South Africa in July 1903. It is unknown who the man is but perhaps it is Mr. Boller or his older brother, Willie, who is known to have made…
Partners and Founders of the Firm of Montgomery Ward & Co. in 1872
A leaflet about the Founders of Montgomery Ward & Co., A. Montgomery Ward and George R. Thorne.
Mrs. William M'Kinley, Widow of Dead President.
Page 56 of Mr. Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook which shows a photo of Mrs. McKinley, widow of the slain President William McKinley.
Mrs. Mary Boller Laid to Rest.
The article was obtained from The Fort at Lexington [Illinois] which is run by the Lexington Genealogical and Historical Society in the town where Mr. Boller was born. It is an account of the life of Mr. Boller's mother, Mary Plank Boller. It…
Mother's birthday poem.
Eight line poem composed by the Boller family on the occasion of Claude Villette Boller's mother's sixtieth birthday on August 19, 1888. First line by Mother, Mary Boller. Second line by Claude's brother Frank, also known as Jacob Frank Boller.…
Montgomery Ward & Co. Clerks' Benefit Society Announcement and Program Third Annual Picnic Fox River Grove, July 18, 1903.
This is a brochure announcing the Montgomery Ward & Co. Clerks' Benefit Society's Third Annual Picnic which took place at Fox River Grove on July 18, 1903.
Montgomery Ward & Co. Are All Right.
Page 110 of Mr. Boller's scrapbook presents a 4-page pamphlet produced by Montgomery Ward & Co. detailing their perspective on the Chicago Teamsters' Strike of 1905. It includes sections taken from various Chicago-based newspaper of the time.