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Portrait of Frederick Eckard, the only son of Elanor M. Eckard.

Six men positioned around a Pike County Telephone Co. truck.

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.

Portrait of Martha Eleanore Glandon as a young child.

Martha Eleanore Glandon admiring her baby sister, Virginia, who is lying in the lap of nurse Blanche Gay.

Mrs. Alkire and Miss Dora Carr seated at a switchboard operating station.

Maud Henry standing next to a switchboard operating station.

Three telephone company employees pose for a picture.

Four women switchboard operators busy at work.

Portrait of Hardin Goodin and his wife, who were parents of Martha Eleanore and her five brothers and sisters.

Downtown Anna with a number of parked Model T Fords and other 1920s era automobiles.

View of the grounds at St. Viator's College, a Roman Catholic institution founded in Bourbonnais by the Viatorians as an academy for boys in 1865.

The Foley family relocated to Canton in 1902, and established "Foley's Shaft" on the Shepley farm, a very successful coal mining company.

The Langenfeld hotel, established in 1912 by John Langenfeld in Centralia, became the premier hotel in the area.

The Haley Eye Infirmary was a well known optometry treatment center in Centralia.

The Prayer for Rain statue sits atop a limestone base in the middle of Johnson Fountain at West Side Park in Champaign. Dedicated in 1899, the statue depicts a Native American with raised arms and head tilted skyward.

Edmund J. James was president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920.

Several buggies line the street across from the Exchange Hotel and clock tower in Chicago.

Saint Paul's Universalist Church was the first Universalist church in Chicago. Organized in 1836, the first church building was built in 1844. The image is a photograph of the fourth church building erected in 1888 on Prairie Avenue and 30th Street.

View from the street of the Palace Store Co. in Edwardsville.

View of old downtown, with a large fountain being the focal point.

The Pure Food Grocery store located in the Monmouth shopping district.