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Elizabeth Graham talks with two unidentified girls about Peter Wright's Cellar Illustration of Vachel Lindsay's poem, "The Congo."On verso: "In basement. Postman's girls see Congo by Peter. Peter Wright's Cellar Illustration of Congo."

A Springfield Transportation Company bus waits outside the Petersburg depot as a passenger train sits on tracks.

The severe ice storm that brought nearly two inches of ice to the Petersburg and central Illinois area in 1924 was one of the worst in history.

The severe ice storm that brought nearly two inches of ice to the Petersburg and central Illinois area in 1924 was one of the worst in history.

The severe ice storm that brought nearly two inches of ice to the Petersburg and central Illinois area in 1924 was one of the worst in history.

The severe ice storm that brought nearly two inches of ice to the Petersburg and central Illinois area in 1924 was one of the worst in history.

John T. Stuart composes and signs Stuart & Lincoln to a petition for dower in Elizabeth Musick v. Abraham Musick et al. heirs of Samuel Musick, deceased.

Attorney Stephen A. Douglass on behalf of Stephen H. West, guardian of infant heirs of Nehemiah Calkins, submits his petition for partition against the estate of Nehemiah Calkins, deceased.

Abraham Lincoln and 200 like-minded citizens petition the Sangamon County Court to relocate a road between Springfield and Peoria "as lies between the northern limits of the city of Springfield and Henry Converse's house on said road."

William H. Herndon writes and signs Lincoln and Herndon to Alonzo Halcomb's petition in the case of Alonzo Halcomb v. John L. Taylor et al. in Sangamon County Circuit Court. Halcomb, administrator of the estate of John L. Taylor, deceased, petitions…