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An unidentified family poses for a photo on the front porch of their home.

Two children sit with their piano and violin.

View of the construction of the architectural arches placed on 5th Street in downtown Springfield.

Men and women working for The State Journal-Register, a daily Springfield newspaper founded in 1831 as the Sangamon Journal, pose for a group photo.

Employees of The State Journal-Register, a daily Springfield newspaper founded in 1831 as the Sangamon Journal, pose for a group photo.

Several elephants walk down a crowded parade route in an unidentified city.

Several horses pull a man and dogs in a carriage down a city street.

Soldiers put on a cannon demonstration for onlookers in front of the Dome Building at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.

A large bison grazes in front of the Exposition Building at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.

Nikolai Sokoloff conducts the Illinois Symphony Orchestra during a rehearsal. The Russian-American violinist and conductor served as the director of the Federal Music Project from 1935-1938. Sokoloff conducted the San Francisco People's Philharmonic…

Members of the Chicago Operetta Company pose for a group photograph. The company, led by director Harry Minturn, was a product of the Federal Music Project, a component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation that employed musicians…

The Illinois Valley Blue Coats band marches in a Peoria parade. The band was a product of the Federal Music Project, a component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation that employed musicians during the Great Depression.

Benjamin Britten sits at a piano with sheet music in hand. Born in England in 1913, Britten was a successful pianist and composer during the mid-twentieth century.

A craftsman constructs replicas for Lincoln's New Salem State Historical Park.

An African American man uses a handloom to weave textiles as part of a Works Progress Administration adult education program.On verso: "Weaving is one of the practical arts taken up in the evening classes. Many handsome rugs and mats made in the…

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

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.

Snow blankets a street and the surrounding houses and trees.

A teacher writes information about the United States Congress on a chalkboard during a civics class for immigrants as part of the New Deal legislation.On verso: "Prospective citizens find the study of civics one of the absorbing interest in their…

A woman goes through catalog cards in a floor-to-ceiling card catalog in the Communicable Diseases Records Office, likely located within the Illinois Department of Public Health. A man examines a card in a window behind her.

Two women conduct office work in the Communicable Diseases Records Office, likely an office within the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Several young mothers sit while waiting for a clinic employee to weight their infant children at an unidentified welfare clinic.

Several men stand on Horse Bridge looking at the Fox River below.On verso: "Along side of I[llinois] and M[ichigan] Canal Aqueduct in eastern part of Ottawa, Illinois."

A farmer cuts the alfalfa crops while riding on his John Deere #4 horse drawn enclosed gear mower.