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Albert S. Edwards, father of Mary Edwards Brown and caretaker of the Lincoln Home in Springfield, poses for a portrait as a young man.

Members of the Moweaqua Concert Band pose for a group photo with their conductor.

A forklift operator moves boxes of Cheerios houses in the General Mills facility in West Chicago.

A street view looking north shows a damaged house on north Main Street in Mound City. On verso: "This is one of many houses left in streets by the flood."

A "Grand herioc funeral march in memory of Abraham Lincoln."

Subtitled "A tribute to the memory of Abraham Lincoln," the song was written and composed by two women. The composer, "Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst," was Susan McFarland Parkhurst, a friend of Stephen Foster's and the author of several Civil War songs. She…

Illustrated two verse song and chorus based on a French revolutionary song of 1848. Verses are in French and English.

Illustarted four verse song about the joys and challenges of life at sea.

An aerial view shows the flooding in Mounds during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows flooding in Mounds during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view of the flooding in Mounds during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

A man in a boat travels the flooded streets of Mound City as the camera looks south.

An aerial view shows flooding in Mound City during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows flooding in Mound City during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

An aerial view shows flooding in Mound City during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

A street view shows flooding where Route 37 turns north through Mound City.

A man stands in front of a building pressing a button on a radiotelephone.Photo caption: "A product truly ahead of its time, the DYNA-T.A.C. portable radiotelephone system, first demonstrated by Motorola in 1973, is similar to a normal dial…

A group of unknown people ride atop early motor carriages, the precursor to the automobile.

Several young men enjoy a ride down a dirt road.

Lincoln makes three objections to the charge denying that the defendants obtained the money by false pretenses and moves that the indictment be quashed.

Members of the Springfield Urban League Nursery School Mother's Club. The nursery school was established in 1936 by the league through the Works Progress Administration.

Illustrated three verse song about a son asking his mother if his father will ever return from the war, only to learn that his father died in battle.

Although the illustration shows a soldier leaving a battlefield, this three verse song about the return of a prodigal son to his mother does not mention war or soldiering.