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

Portrait of Henry Horner, who was a lawyer, judge, and the twenty-eighth Governor of Illinois, 1933-1940. Horner's extensive collection of Lincolniana became the foundation of the Illinois State Historical Library's (now the Abraham Lincoln…

Portrait of John Milton Hay at age sixteen. Hay was an assistant and private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

Portrait of Dr. James Harvey Gibson in his earlier years.

Portrait of William P. Harbert. During the Civil War, Harbert, a resident of Bloomington, served in the Fifth Illinois Cavalry.

Portrait of Dr. James Harvey Gibson in his later years.

Portrait of Johnathan Foster.

Wedding portrait of James Ferreira and Charlotte Vierra in Springfield. James and Charlotte were both immigrants of Madiera, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic.

Henry Dodge, shown here in an American officer's uniform of the 1820s or 1830s, served in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, and as the first governor of the Territory of Wisconsin from 1836-1841. A Democrat, Dodge served as Wisconsin territorial…

Portrait of Jane Dunlap.

Portrait of Shelby Moore Cullom, a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as the seventeenth Governor of Illinois, 1877-1883.

Portrait of Esther Ridgway Diller and an infant named Emma.

Portrait of Shelby Moore Cullom, a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as the seventeenth Governor of Illinois, 1877-1883.

Portrait of Nancy Creel.

Portrait of William Marcus Cox, a veteran of the American Civil War and a successful farmer in Bloomington.

Portrait of Rachel Clarke.

Portrait of William Carson, an early settler of Sangamon County. He and his wife, Cynthia Broadwell Carson, had fifteen children and lived on a farm near Pleasant Plains.

Portrait of Reverend F. J. Briggs, who came to Bloomington in 1851. He was the minister in charge at the Universalist Church on Front street.

Portrait of Mary Ann Coffey Depew Bishop and Harvey Bishop.

Portrait of Chloe Bishop and William Bishop, a veteran of the War of 1812.

Portrait of Reverend John G. Bergen, who became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield in 1835.

Portrait of Agnes Young Beattie.

A side by side portrait of James Bankhead and Jane Bankhead Beattie.

A photograph of Carl Sandburg, poet and Lincoln biographer, signed to "Henry Horner with all good wishes." Henry Horner was the twenty-eighth Governor of Illinois (1933-1940).

Illinois state legislators Katherine Hancock Goode, Florence Fifer Bohrer, Rena Elrod, and Lottie Holman O'Neill are pictured (right to left) in Springfield. Bohrer was the first woman to serve in the Illinois Senate. In 1921, O'Neill was the first…