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Siblings Olive Lindsay (age 11) and Vachel Lindsay (age 9) pose for a portrait.

Susan Doniphan Frazee (age 55) poses for a portrait with her son, Ephraim S. Frazee (age 25). Ephraim, a preacher of Rush County, Indiana, was the husband of Frances Elizabeth Austen Frazee and the father of Esther Catharine Frazee Lindsay. On verso:…

Vachel Lindsay poses for a photo in Cleveland, Ohio with his nephew, Vachel Lindsay Blair, the son of Vachel's sister, Joy Frazee Lindsay Blair.

Vachel Lindsay and his wife, Elizabeth Conner Lindsay, pose for a picture on a couch with their children, Susan and Nicholas.

Vachel Lindsay and his wife, Elizabeth Conner Lindsay, pose for a picture with their children, Susan and Nicholas, on the steps in front of their home.

Esther Catharine Frazee Lindsay, the mother of Vachel Lindsay, poses for a portrait wearing a dark jacket with a light colored blouse.

Ephraim S. Frazee, a preacher of Rush County, Indiana, sits for a portrait wearing a dark suit. Frazee was the husband of Frances Elizabeth Austen Frazee and the father of Esther Catharine Frazee Lindsay.

Vachel Thomas Lindsay and Esther Catharine Frazee Lindsay, the parents of Vachel Lindsay, pose for a picture with newspapers in their hands.

Susan E. Wilcox poses for a picture with a newspaper in her hands. Wilcox, a poet and Vachel Lindsay's English teacher at Springfield High School, not only became friends with Lindsay, but is also known to have helped inspire his writing of poetry.

Members of the Vachel Lindsay Association meet inside First Christian Church in Springfield, Illinois. Willis J. Spaulding sits in the front row.

Springfield High School teachers Elru Logan and Ellen Rourke and Dean of Boys Roy "Daddy" Wintz pose with clocks given to them upon their retirement. On verso: "Year of retirement from S. H. S. Gifts to them, clocks."

Tom Robertson seeds an area in front of the Vachel Lindsay Home in Springfield, Illinois, while other unidentified Key Club members perform landscaping work.On verso: "Tom Robertson with seeder; Please leave at Switch Board Monday for Elizabeth…

Key Club members perform landscaping work outside the Vachel Lindsay Home in Springfield. On verso: "Please leave at Board Monday for Elizabeth Graham."

Two Key Club members carry a shutter on the Vachel Lindsay Home porch while two other members scrub two shutters leaning against the building.

Two boys and two girls dig a hole while planting a dogwood.On verso: "Basil [Contralson's] children plant dogwood."

Willis J. Spaulding, a native of Springfield who was largely responsible for the construction of Lake Springfield and the city-owned power plant from 1927-1935, poses for a picture at his desk. On verso: "Just after election."

Elizabeth Graham, an English teacher at Springfield High School, poses for a picture next to a painting hanging on the wall. Graham met Vachel Lindsay through Susan E. Wilcox, a fellow English teacher at Springfield High School who was a friend of…

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."

Clarice Hickox, of Springfield, speaks on a stage at an unidentified event.

Richard P. Graebel, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield, speaks to a group of unidentified people while holding the book, "The West-Going Heart: A Life of Vachel Lindsay."

Stephen Graham, a British journalist and author who after becoming friends with Vachel Lindsay, holds a pipe in his right hand in a candid photograph. Graham published a book in 1922 titled, "Tramping with a Poet in the Rockies," featuring a trip he…

Vachel Lindsay and his wife, Elizabeth Conner Lindsay, along with their two children, Susan and Nicholas, pose for a picture in front of the family home in Springfield.

A room inside the Vachel Lindsay Home in Springfield, Illinois, contains a dining table and chairs next to a couch and table. Dr. Vachel Thomas Lindsay's medicine cabinet is on the left.

The south bedroom inside the Lindsay home in Springfield, Illinois, features a four poster bed. On verso: "This bed is from Indiana. Frances Austen Frazee's bed made when she was married in 1847. She was born in 1827, her chest was acquired sometime…

The north bedroom inside the Vachel Lindsay Home in Springfield, Illinois, features two chairs and a chest of drawers in a corner.