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A cut-out nativity scene and lights decorate a home for Christmas.

An artist's sketch depicts the 1846 Nauvoo Mormon Temple at the time of the building's dedication.

Sailors receive naval training.

Sailors smile from atop American submarines stationed at San Diego Bay, California. With German submarines, called U-boats, reeking havoc on Allied Forces and merchant vessels at the beginning of World War I, the United States and other countries…

A Navy editor, possibly Charles Johnson Braden, sits at his desk in a library at an unknown location. Braden served in the United States Navy from 1902 until his death from tuberculosis in 1908. He was the creator of the magazine, Our Naval…

Three members of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) pose for a photograph sitting on a desk in uniform. WAVES was a program created in August 1942 to fill a void for additional Navy volunteers that existed during the Second…

Illiustrated two verse song and chorus on the death of a young man's sweetheart.

The fire department races two horse drawn carriages in this artist's interpretation of Aurora.

The Neese family stands in front of two covered wagons preparing to leave Hutton Township in Coles County for Oklahoma. On verso: "Neese Family. Leaving Hutton Twp. Coles Co. Ill. 1890s for Oklahoma. Only one of them ever returned. Two wagons."

Tea is served to the league's former Executive Secretary, Reverend G. B. Winston, and his wife.

Several homes and plentiful trees line a neighborhood street in Aledo.

Neil McKechnie of Toronto, a former student of Pierre College, sits for a portrait.

Thusnelda "Nelda" Wilson, wife of Charles Wilson, poses for a portrait wearing a black dress. She worked as a teacher in Piatt County.

Nell Sherman, Verna Wood, and Wayne Watson pose for a photo with Wayne's mother, Maggie E. Watson, on the porch of a building in Springfield.

Nellie Grey Lindsay, daughter of Nicholas T. Lindsay and Nellie A. Gager, poses for a portrait wearing a dark dress with a white collar and a bow in her hair. Nellie married Marion Felix Johnson in Monroe, Indiana, in 1910 and had five children.

Nellie Mercer poses for a portrait as a toddler.

Illustrated two verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Annie of the Vale." A lonely soldier on picket duty longs for his sweatheart.

The Nelson children pose for a portrait, From left to right: Rob (far left) , Wendy (back row), Molly (front center), and Rachel (far right).

Nelson J. Myer of Ocoya, Livingston County, sits for a portrait. Myer was a Republican Representative of the 18th District in the 36th General Assembly of Illinois.