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Adlai Stevenson II learns what being a governor in Illinois entails.Cartoon dedication: "To Adlai Stevenson from a grateful spectator. Harry Wood"

Interested parties watch and wait for the 1916 election results. President William Taft sits in the audience reading a book on fishing. Taft was not a candidate in the 1916 presidential election.

There is no harm to public morals when the human body is exposed, argues this state fair poster supporting the show Visions dArt."

A nun reaches for a card in a young male confirmand's hand.

Springfield Works guide (right) explains how a tabulating machine transcribes key punch cuttings to a group of teachers who visited the Springfield Works during the first Business-Education Day.Photo caption: "Springfield Works guide on right…

A nurse with the American Red Cross checks on a blood donor lying on a table giving blood.

Nurses check on local residents donating blood.

A nurse spoon-feeds a patient lying in a hospital bed.

A nurse uses an unidentified machine at Brokaw Hospital in Bloomington.

An American Red Cross nurse uses a stethoscope to check a man's blood pressure at a blood bank.

A nurse takes notes during a conversation with a female patient lying in a hospital bed. A baby lies next to the woman in the bed while a man stands next to them.

Two nurses examine infants in a nursery. On verso: "Persons not serving in the nursery may look at the babies only through closed glass doors. The heated crib in the corner is the type in which the baby's head is not covered. The requisite space…

Nursing students look on as three people apply a plaster cast to a subject.

Three nurses stand around a display which includes an infant in a makeshift baby bed, a model house, and a tray with baby bottles. A sign on the wall to the right of the picture discusses safe maternity care.

Returning American troops receive treatment at Debarkation and Convalescent Hospital Number Five in New York City.

Four verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Carry me back to old Virginia."