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Young people enjoy dancing at an event held to honor the sacrifices of the men and women fighting for their country during the Second World War.

Young people gather around the stage during an event held in 1942 to honor the sacrifices of the men and women fighting for their country during the Second World War.

Lyrics depict thanks to God for the United States including military and natural resources.

Crowds look on as the presidential motorcade for Outer Drive Bridge dedication proceeds along Michigan Avenue, passing by one the Art Institute of Chicago's famous lion statues.

Due to his advanced age, Preston Bailhache declines an invitation by John E. Boos of Albany, New York, to attend a Lincoln observance. Instead, Bailhache promises to send a few words about Lincoln as he knew him.

Preston King, a former U.S. Senator from New York, comments on the shock and grief gripping the nation in the wake of the assassination of President Lincoln. King also expresses his confidence in President Andrew Johnson.

Illustrated three verse song and chorus about a lovesick soldier who promises to return to his sweetheart after the war.

Tuscola resident Price Carter, brother of Judge Joseph N. Carter, poses for a portrait wearing a dark jacket.

Price Carter, of Tuscola, the brother of Joseph N. Carter, looks to the side during a portrait sitting. Photo signature: "Respectfully yours."

Price Carter, the brother of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joseph N. Carter, poses for a portrait wearing a long beard.

Princess Grace of Monaco and her daughter, Princess Caroline, tour the Illinois Pavilion at the New York World's Fair with a group of unidentified people.

Men work on printing presses next to stacks of newsprint.

On verso: "Printing press used in printing the Missouri Gazette in 1819. (See Ill in 1818)"

A prisoner cuts bread in the prison bakery.

Members of the prison baseball team pose for a team picture. By the 1920s, intramural baseball was a normal feature of inmate life in prisons across the country. Selected players, like these Joliet inmates, manned institutional teams that played…

Prisoners eat a meal in one of Stateville's roundhouses as guards observe them.

A truck backs up against a building at a newly constructed prison while a guard looks on.

Joliet's marching band forms up. Known as the "Honor Band," these inmate musicians performed at selected events.

A large group of boys stand among the visitors inside the front door of a prison during a public visit day.

A guard searches a visitor during his visit to a prison.

Visitors line up outside a large prison.