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Henry Ross Etter sits at his desk in his law office at Palmyra.

Laura Lavinia Snyder Adams sits for a portrait wearing a bow at the collar of her dress. On verso: "Mrs. James L. Adams, Sr."

Monticello Female Seminary students Laura Jenks and Flora Merrill sit together on a bench.

Portrait of Laura Eliza Holmes Strawn, wife of David Gates Strawn, who was the son of Jacob Strawn, both successful farmers in the Jacksonville area.

Sisters Mary Snyder and Laura Adams stand on a porch for a photograph.

Two laundry machines, a large sink, and a pile of laundry sit in the basement of the Illinois Executive Mansion in Springfield Springfield.

A Southern Illinois Electric Co-op power line runs above a line of drying clothes to a shed.

Three verse song and chorus, "From Auber's Manon Lascaut". Lyrics depict a man spying at night on the woman he loves.

Instrumental music. Cover image depicts border of oak leaves surrounding title. Note on p. 2 taken from "La France Musicale" details how the composer came to write and name the song for a friend who passed away while mourning the death of her son.

Illustrated eight verse song. Lyrics depict a wedding with drinking, dancing, and fighting. Color cover image depicts a man wearing rags on stage in front of a pastoral scene.

On verso: "Me drinking beer out of a big mug in Unna, Ger. May 45."

On verso: "A silhouette of me in the large window of Hitler's home above Bechtesgaden, Ger. Picture taken from inside the badly bomb-damaged home. 14 Apr. 46."

Two women sit on top of a power shovel dipper while two men stand behind a horse-drawn wagon and its driver at the side of the dipper.Photo caption: "Largest all-manganese steel power shovel dipper ever made, 15 cubic yards 37 tons, shipped Feb.…

A large smokestack, possibly an incinerator, is positioned next to the smaller smoke stacks at the Sahara Coal Company, Harrisburg.

An interior view of an unknown building shows several tables and chairs set up around a large room. On verso: "Library?"

Several generations gather for a family photo.

Thousands of people stand on the newly opened Outer Drive Bridge. Although construction began in 1929, the opening of the Outer Drive Bridge in Chicago did not occur until 1937, when President Franklin Roosevelt visited the city to dedicate the…

Illustrated seven verse song. Lyrics depict dancing and fighting at a ball. Color cover image depicts a man wearing rags on stage in front of a pastoral scene.

The Langenfeld hotel, established in 1912 by John Langenfeld in Centralia, became the premier hotel in the area.

A landscape view shows a creek bending to the left.

A man poses with two dogs near a stream and bridge in a wooded area.

A dirt road, identified as "Lover's Lane," passes through an alley of trees.