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Several bare trees surround the Logan County Courthouse. On verso: "Logan Co C House 1857-"

An exterior view shows Ulysses S. Grant's log cabin located at Old Orchard Park near St. Louis. On verso: "General Grant's Famous Log Cabin. Built in 1854 of logs hewn-by General Ulysses S. Grant, the corner prominent in this picture having been…

The closed doors to the Illinois and Michigan Canal lock at Marseilles, Illinois, help boat traffic move safely. On verso: "The Illinois and Michigan Canal extends from the South Branch of the Chicago River in the city of Chicago to the Illinois…

The Lockett residence was located in either Weldon or Patoka, both towns where the Locketts lived. Mary Frances Hutchinson, daughter of Zephaniah K. Hutchinson and Elizabeth Nettleton, married David S. Lockett in 1876, and had a daughter, Lela, in…

Attendees relax in the lobby.

A man loads a truck with crates containing turkeys.On verso: "IL. Rural Electric-Special Section"

A Blue Diggings Mine employee operates a mucking machine loading muck into a tram car.

A woman stands on railroad tracks as trains load rocks in Carlyle, Illinois.

Works Progress Administration men load debris from the alley between 4th Street and 5th Street in Mound City.

Floodwaters cover the Sahara Coal Company load yard at Muddy, near Harrisburg during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Elizabeth "Aunt Lizzie" Washington poses for a portrait at age 90. She was a slave at Chinsegut Estate in Chinsegut, Florida, and remained at the estate after the Emancipation Proclamation. On verso: "She went over the Great Divide a few months ago."

Lizzie Stillwell poses for a portrait in profile while wearing a hat covered with a flower and a bow.

Miss Lizzie Campbell of Peoria poses for a portrait wearing a dark dress with a white decoration on the neckline.

A large doorway separates two living rooms in the Illinois Executive Mansion in Springfield.

Several men stand outside the George and John Lee livery with a horse and carriages.Photo caption: "George and John Lee livery stable at Bunker Hill ILL."