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Grace and Margery Doud (far left and far right) pose for a portrait with a girl called Snow White.

Works Progress Administration men repair the Douglas Colored School building after it was under floodwaters in the village of Cache.

Works Progress Administration men clean and repair the Douglas Colored School in the village of Cache.

Cover depicts a picture of Stephen A. Douglas. U.S. senator from Illinois, 1860 Democratic presidential nominee, and opponent of Abraham Lincoln in their famous series of 1858 debates, Douglas defended the Union cause and died on June 3, 1861, only a…

Instrumental music in honor of Stephen A. Douglas.

Lyrics refer to rivers in Illinois.

Photo caption: "Typical downstate farm scene on a slide road - big barns, wooded background."

Local citizens converse on the sidewalk in front of stores and businesses in downtown Centralia.Photo caption: "Evolution of the hitching rail, a downstate main street (At Centralia, Ill.)."

The St. Nicholas Hotel provides a good vantage point for an aerial photograph of downtown Decatur, Illinois, including the city's Transfer House.

View of old downtown, with a large fountain being the focal point.

View of buildings on a street in Mount Olive

Several severely damaged trees stand along a street in downtown Springfield after an ice storm hit the city on February 2, 1883.

Dr. Alonzo Cressy poses for a portrait wearing a dark suit. During the Black Hawk War, Cressy attended to Native Americans sick with cholera in Chicago under General Scott. In 1936, he successfully ran for a seat in the Michigan House of…

Dr. Benjamin Woodward and his wife, Amanda, pose for a portrait. On photo: "My mother's father and mother." On verso: "My [ ] taken when father came home on his first furlough Galesburg, 1863; Dr. Benjamin Woodward and wife Amanda. US surgeon in US…

Dr. Frank P. Norbury poses for a portrait wearing a dark suit and glasses.

Dr. Frank P. Norbury poses for a photo with his granddaughters, Phyllis and Ruth Margaret Norbury. The girls are the daughters of Dr. Frank Garm Norbury.

Dr. John and Elizabeth Todd moved to Springfield, Illinois, in early 1827 after his appointment as Land Office Register. The home, located at 116 East Washington St., was the first two-story residence in Springfield.

The Keeley Institute was founded in Dwight in 1879 by Leslie Keeley, and, until it closed its doors in 1965, offered treatment to cure alcoholism. At the peak of the institute's popularity, there were more than 200 locations across the U.S. and in…

An advertisement promoting Dr. Miller's Hog Nose-Cutter, on sale for $1.00 at 1926 Fifth Ave., Rock Island.

Dr. William Fithian poses in profile for a portrait sitting. Fithian served in the Illinois House of Representatives (1834-1836) and the Illinois Senate (1838-1846).

Works Progress Administration men work to drain floodwater through the gap cut in the levee at Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men drain flood water through a gap in the back levee at Mound City.