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A Cisne high school student practices on gymnastic rings in the school gymnasium.

Four female high school students read from the book, Teen Age Dance Etiquette.

A Cisne school student looks at the camera while studying at his desk.

A Cisne grade school teacher displays a book she uses in the classroom.

A Cisne grade school student poses for a photo while adjusting her hat.

Works Progress Administration men pump floodwater from the cistern of Cue Church at 824 West Church Street in Harrisburg.

The view of the mined and sapped "Citadel," Confederate fortifications at Port Hudson, from the river. The terms "mining" and "sapping" refer to military siege tactics, in which soldiers dig trenches and tunnels to reach fortifications and then use…

Two men discuss plans for the City Beautiful movement in six vignettes. The top three vignettes show the excitement of both men. The fifth vignette displays a money bag labeled "self interest" whispering "Look out! It will cost you money" into one…

Local residents line up to get their food at a community fish fry.

Local residents sit at a table and eat during a community fish fry.

A truck filled with gravel stands next to a large piece of machinery at the gravel pit located in Aurora. On verso: "H. V. Arnberg (Supt.) M. Meyers (Asst.)."

The city of Peoria appears in a photograph taken from the bluffs above Hickey's Soda Factory.

Mayor Lester B. Collins presents an official proclamation to Dr. D. E. Webster, League President, declaring August 28 through September 3 "Urban League Back-to-School-Stay-in-School Week". On verso: "Association of Commerce and Industry executive…

Illinois State Police observing African American protestors in Cairo, Illinois during race protests in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Floodwaters fill the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in Cairo during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

A view looking south shows Civilian Conservation Corps boys of Company 1685 in Sparta working on the Ohio Levee 2 miles north of Cairo.

Civilian Conservation Corps boys of Company 1685 in Sparta work on the bulk head 2 miles north of Cairo.

Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Co. 1658, pose for a group photo at Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

Civilian Conservation Corps trucks assemble at Olive Branch ready for emergency calls.

The National Jewish Welfare Board was formed after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917. The board mainly sought support for U.S. Jewish soldiers who fought for their country during World War I.