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A man, two women, and two children walk among the rubble of buildings destroyed after a cyclone passed through Murphysboro. On verso: "The people are strangers - none of us."

Cynthia Gilbert Hoffmann, the wife of Francis Hoffmann, sits for a portrait wearing a dark dress and necklace with a cross.

Cyrus Boyd Beckes of Kansas, an 1893 graduate of Park College, sits for a portrait.

An exterior view shows the home of Cyrus Hall McCormick at 675 Rush Street. McCormick most notably invented the mechanical reaper.