Portrait of Maggie Mitchell, an American stage actress during the mid to late nineteenth century. Mitchell was rumored to be a one time girlfriend of Abraham Lincoln assassin, John Wilkes Booth. After Booth was shot, a picture of the actress was…
Mahalia Jackson stands in the choir area of an unidentified church while recording a performance for the Illinois Sesquicentennial television special, I Remember Illinois. The special aired on February 18, 1968.
President William Taft portrays Mahomet, attempting to attract the mountain of sentiment in favor of further reducing the tariff downward to come to him using a speech on the progress of tariff reduction he gave in Winona, Minnesota. As the mountain…
A view of flooding looking north on Main Street from gravel yards in Shawneetown. On verso: "This is one of many houses that floated to the middle of the street."
The street view of Main Street looking south from the intersection of Route 13 and Main Street in Shawneetown shows a building on its side in the middle of the road and substantial debris on the sidewalk.