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Members of the Illinois National Guard labeled "Huntoon" and "Parker" stand outside a tent with an unidentified African American man.

Ogara Machine Shop at the Sahara Coal Company, Harrisburg.

Oglala women and children sit inside the tipi framed "Home of Mrs. American Horse."

Illustrated six verse song and chorus based on Jefferson Davis' capture on May 10, 1865. The scene depicts a popular myth that Davis tried to elude his captors by dressing as a woman.

Horses stretch the voter in four different directions representing votes of "Oui," "Non", "Abstention", and "Bulletin Blanc" (Yes, No, Abstain, and Neutral) in this French political cartoon.Caption: "Ah! Quel plaisir d'etre electeur!"

Illustrated two verse love song and chorus, "As sung by C. Campbell of Carncross and Dixey's Minstrels"

"To the officers and men of the 113th Reg. Ill. Vols."

"Respectfully dedicated to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln," "Oh speak to me once more" was reportedly said by Mary Lincoln at her husband's deathbed.

Song based on William Knox's poem "Mortality," which became better known by its first line: "Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" According to artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Lincoln, who Carpenter often interacted with while painting…

Song based on William Knox's poem "Mortality," which became better known by its first line: "Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" According to artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Lincoln, who Carpenter often interacted with while painting…

Works Progress Administration men work on the Ohio levee. View is looking west from Ohio River.

Several men view the flood damage as the camera looks north from 8th Street along the Ohio Levee in Cairo.

Several sandbags line one of the lowest places on the Ohio Levee at 42nd Street. The Big Four Railroad Bridge can be seen in the background.

A view of the flooding shows where the Ohio levee broke in Mound City

Men work on the dock on the Ohio River at the front of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo.

A view of flooding looking south from the top of the Halliday Hotel in Cairo across the Ohio River show a flooded street.

Individuals stand along the levee wall on Ohio Street in Cairo, Illinois, in this artist's interpretation.

Snow-covered houses surround operational oil wells.

An oil derrick and several small buildings stand in an oil field.

Several derricks stand near a long unidentified building in an oil field.

A pumpjack operates near a farm.

Several towers and other buildings line the outskirts of a growing corn field.

Satirical song about the speculation craze in the burgeoning oil industry during the Civil War.

Illustrated eight verse song and chorus about the oil drilling craze of the 1860s.

Two oil field workers man a drilling rig during the process of oil extraction near Fairfield.