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The Lindley and Grace Smith family pose for a photo with other family members at the Leland Hotel in Springfield. On verso: "Top left: Malcolm, David, Philip, R. E. W., Sam, Vera, L. M., Grace, Bertha W., Louise, Donald, Homer and Ellen."

A sales clerk shows a customer a small electric appliance during the Christmas season.

A woman, partially obscured, stands in a room of a slum building filled with cooking implements, an icebox, and a bed.

An African American woman and three boys stand in a yard outside a slum building with a full clothesline hanging overhead.

A woman stands on at the top of a staircase leading from the second floor of a house to a yard while a full clothesline stretches from her house to an unseen building on the left side.

A rearview of slum housing in Chicago. The back fence features campaign signs for Peter Bagnuolo, a candidate for alderman from the 20th district.

Illustrated song sheet containing two songs. Each song is two verses; however the second song also has a chorus.

A song about Union soldiers who died for their "Flag" in the Civil War. This song was dedicated to "The Girls At Home." This song was meant to be a companion piece to "Brave Boys Are They."

Song about soldiers in death waking when a higher power calls them on to heaven. Associated with World War I. Contains religious aspects. On cover photograph:" Posed by Thomasanne Payne, Authoress and Carl Stickelman, Sculptor, beside the First…

Pedestrians cross at an intersection along Sixth Street in Springfield. The Strand movie theater near Sixth and Adams Streets is visible on the right side.

Attendees of the sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention sit and listen to Springfield mayor Nelson Howarth speak.On verso: "First Plenary Session in the Representative Hall of the Old State Capitol, Springfield, March 20, 1970, about 2:00 p.m.…

Six unidentified men sit for a group photograph.

A crystal chandelier hangs over the sitting room in the Executive Mansion in Springfield.

Sitting Bull was the Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief who led his people in resistance against the United States in the late nineteenth century.

Sir Myles stands in front of his home.

Illustrated five verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Teddy The Tiler", or "Cannibal Islands." The song celebrates the sinking of the Confederate raider C.S.S. Alabama off the coast of France. Description on sheet: "New Patriotic And Comic Song…

A woman plays the piano while four girls stand nearby and sing.On verso: "Templar Home"

A small group of singers perform at an event.