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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."

Elizabeth Conner Lindsay closes her eyes while holding a young child in a candid photograph.

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 Conner Lindsay watches her children, Susan and Nicholas, examine a Christmas tree.

Clarissa Hagler Jorgensen, of Springfield, recounts stories of Vachel Lindsay who she knew as a child to Nicholas Cave Lindsay and an unidentified woman. In a separate oral history interview done with Jo Saner of Sangamon State University on March…

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

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

A bust of Vachel Lindsay by sculptor Adrien A. Voisin shows Lindsay taken from the viewer's right side of the sculpture.

The Vachel Lindsay Bridge on Lake Springfield was dedicated on July 12, 1935, and included a bronze bust made by sculptor Adrien A. Voisin located on a limestone pedestal at the west end. Lindsay's poem, "On the Building of Springfield," was carved…

An unidentified boy seated at a table and a girl holding a book pose in profile for a portrait.