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Old State Capitol Building Columns
An angled camera shot looking up towards the roofline shows the columns above the doors of the Springfield Old State Capitol building.Photo caption: "Columns of the old state capitol, Springfield."
Old State Capitol Restoration
Two women walk in front of the Old State Capitol complex during restoration in the late 1960s.
Old State Capitol, Vandalia
Arches decorate the front entrance of the Old State Capitol, now known as the State House, in Vandalia.Photo caption: "Detail from side of front entrance, old Capitol, Vandalia."
Old Vienna at the World's Columbian Exposition
World Fair visitors view the Old Vienna exhibit located to the right of the western entrance to the Midway Plaisance at the fair in Chicago. The Midway Plaisance was an entertainment experience aimed at introducing patrons to international cultures…
Old Visitation Convent
A pencil sketch of the first Visitation Academy in the Midwest at Kaskaskia, which was founded in 1833 by eight sisters from the Georgetown Visitation. The building was vacated in 1844 when the Mississippi River flooded and the waters reached the…
Older and Wiser
The upper panel shows Adlai E. Stevenson II's shoe with a hole in the sole from the 1952 presidential campaign. The lower panel shows him in 1955 wearing a track uniform complete with spiked shoes in preparation for the 1956 presidential campaign.
Oldest Bank Building in Illinois
The oldest bank building in the State of Illinois, located in Shawneetown, is still intact after the flood.
Ole Shady
Song sung from the perspective of former slave or "Contraband" who has recently found security and freedom behind Union lines. The song is dedicated to Union general Benjamin F. Butler, who was the first Union commander to allow escaped slaves to…
Olive Lindsay and Vachel Lindsay
Siblings Olive Lindsay (age 11) and Vachel Lindsay (age 9) pose for a portrait.
Olive Lindsay, Esther Lindsay, Isabel Lindsay, and Vachel Lindsay
Olive Lindsay (left), Isabel Lindsay (lower middle), Esther Lindsay (upper middle), and Vachel Lindsay (right) pose for a portrait. According to the verso, Esther and Isabel were the two oldest of the three sisters who died at a young age. The third,…
On Hearing from Mr. Marsh of President Lincoln's Proclamation January 1863
This poem by Madame Clara Ranke, wife of the German historian Leopold van Ranke, celebrates the Emancipation Proclamationand freedom for slaves.
On Safari
Adlai Stevenson II fuels up a bus from a gas pump resembling John F. Kennedy for a trek through South America.
On the Brink
Governor Charles S. Deneen stands at the end of a diving board wearing swimming clothes while hesitating to dive into the "Candidates Swimming Hole" decorated with signs pointing in opposite directions for the "governorship" and the "senatorship."…