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An artist's depiction of a man carrying a woman across a stream towards two cows as they are "going a-milking" in Brimfield.

Mary "Mother" Jones sits for a portrait wearing a dark dress.

Fence posts float in floodwaters while houses stand in the background with water reaching halfway to the second story in the aftermath of an 1898 flood resulting from a levee break near Shawneetown.

The Illinois National Guard 4th Infantry Band forms up at Camp Lincoln, Springfield.

Two men stand at the intersection of 7th Street and College Avenue in Aledo.

The Chicago City Hall building serves as a location for mourners to view President Abraham Lincoln's body when the funeral train stopped in the city on May 1-2, 1865. Crowds formed large lines in and around the black bunting-covered building with as…

Portrait of Adam Wilson Snyder, who was a member of the Illinois Senate, the 25th U.S. Congress, and a captain in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War. A lock of Snyder's hair is contained within an encasement on the reverse side of the…

Portrait of Agnes Young Beattie.

Farm workers place oats into harvesting equipment.Photo caption: "Pitching sheaves of oats to the thrasher, showing automatic feeder and band cutter, Ill."

Several Illinois National Guard, First Infantry soldiers who fought in the Santiago Campaign during the Spanish-American War aim their rifles at an unseen target.

Autographed collage of airmail pioneers: "Joe F. Westover," "W. A. Hallgren," "Bobbie Jewell," and "Clyde Holbrook." Other pictures include, "yesterday's plane," "today's plane," and other notable pilots "T. P. Nelson," "Charles Lindbergh," and "Phil…

Details of Al Capone on his way to federal prison, when he told newspaper reporters that he is, "a wet." The producer of this article, Signal Press, is located in Evanston.

Portrait of Alexander Massey, a southern Illinois reverend.

An artist's interpretation of the Alton Lock and Dam and the Lewis and Clark Bridges on the Mississippi River in Alton.

Alvin G. Fields, mayor of East St. Louis, poses for a portrait.

An invitation from the Rhode Island Veteran Association to surviving 10th Regiment and 10th Battery members to attend an anniversary dinner at Boyden Heights.

A women's suffrage cabinet card that was distributed at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It depicts Frances E. Willard, national president (1879-1898) of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, surrounded by her "Political Peers,"…

A request for people to join "An Organization of Gentiles" to "save America from the wave of anti-Semitic persecution which is afflicting parts of Europe."

Portrait of Dr. Andrew Johnstone, husband of Jane Carlyle Johnstone.

A Kodachrome enlargement shows a portrait of Anne Elizabeth White Oglesby, wife of governor Richard Oglesby, in a piece of jewelry. Writing on the Kodak envelope: "Anne Elizabeth White Oglesby at eighteen years; Born Dec 6 1835; Died June 4 1863."…

Anti-racist response from minority groups directed towards racist groups and their hateful propaganda.

A bridge runs through scenic Apple River Canyon State Park in Jo Daviess County.

Visitors ride in gondolas in front of the Art Palace during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Several men inspect a Ford Model T after an accident near a bridge. Ford produced the first production Model T in 1908.

Several tractors line the Avery Company production floor. The Avery Company was established by Robert Hanneman Avery in Peoria in 1877.