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A secretary takes notes at a businessman's desk. A map of Mexico hangs on the wall to their right.

Several businessmen gather in an office with their secretary.

Harry Woods, the then-nominee for Illinois Secretary of State, poses for a portrait. Woods served as Secretary of State from 1913-1914.

An unidentified woman stands in front of a painted backdrop while holding an umbrella behind her shoulders.

A woman holds a Keller family child on a miniature horse in front a house and pergola.

Ten unidentified men pose for a portrait outside a tent with firearms. On verso: "TDA Keller."

Several members of the Keller family sit for a group portrait.

A group of young girls wearing white dresses and one boy pose for a group photograph while surrounded by American flags on the ground and next to the paintings on the back stone wall.

Kent E. Keller looks over a book in front of a microphone in a recording booth. While Keller was serving in Congress in 1934 the Library of Congress expanded the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to include the…

A woman stands on railroad tracks as trains load rocks in Carlyle, Illinois.

An old shed stands near a field with farm buildings and the top of an oil well in the background.

Two sheds stand near operational oil wells.

A pumpjack operates near a farm.

The Casey, Illinois, oil refinery, established in 1904, was the first oil refinery in the state.

Several derricks stand near a long unidentified building in an oil field.

Snow-covered houses surround operational oil wells.

A man transports supplies by horse-drawn cart through an oil field.

Drilling rigs and towers dot the skyline near an oil field adjacent to a crop field.

A small oil well operates in the lawn of a farmhouse.

An oil well operates in the middle of a large field with several other oil wells in the distance.

An oil well sits in the front yard of a farmhouse in Robinson, Crawford County, Illinois.

Robinson, Illinois, residents built several new buildings and brick-paved roads during the time of prosperity that accompanied the oil boom.

An oil well functions in a rural area among houses and trees.

An oil derrick and several small buildings stand in an oil field.

A pump in a wooded area runs from a power house.