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Wedding photo of Diana Stratton, the daughter of Governor William Stratton, the thirty-second Governor of Illinois, 1953-1961. Diana Joy Stratton married Norman Weiskopf at St. John Lutheran Church in Springfield on September 10, 1960.

Governor William Stratton, the thirty-second Governor of Illinois, 1953-1961, receives a piece of his birthday cake from Illinois secretary of state Charles Carpentier.

"The Dream," an oil painting by French artist Edouard Detaille, depicts sleeping French soldiers dreaming of the glory of France's Grand Army. This copy was brought to John Charles Black from Paris by his son in 1908. Black was a Union Army…

Ingersoll Islands, Yukon River, was acquired with the Ingersoll Papers in 1947. Robert Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," was a colonel during the American Civil War, a politician, an attorney, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought.

Football players from Shurtleff College pose for a team picture. Alton Seminary, founded in Alton in 1827, changed its name to Shurtleff College in 1836 to honor Dr. Brendon Shurtleff, of Boston.

Reminiscences written to be given as a lecture on Abraham Lincoln, by Miner, a Baptist minister who, with his family lived near the Lincolns in Springfield from 1855 to 1861 and had a personal and social relationship with them.

Revised copy of reminiscences written to be given as a lecture on Abraham Lincoln, by Miner, a Baptist minister who, with his family lived near the Lincolns in Springfield from 1855 to 1861 and had a personal and social relationship with them.