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Illustrated four verse religious-themed song and chorus.

A pencil sketch of the "Bond Mansion," home of Shadrach Bond, the first Governor of Illinois (1818-1822).

Ballad, could be interpreted with religious aspects. - Handwritten note-cannot read

Several employees sew side by side.

Several women work on clothing items in the Kankakee State Hospital sewing room. This photograph was taken just after electricity was installed in the psychiatric hospital.

Women sitting in a church volunteer their time to sew cancer dressing pads for local patients.

Works Progress Administration men repair the sewer on 27th Street and Commercial Street where one of major sand boils wrecked the Cairo Ice and Coal Company Plant. The view is looking north in Cairo.

Sewell L. Avery was a businessman in Chicago, president of the United States Gypsum Company, 1905-1936, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Montgomery Ward & Co. Avery's refusal to settle a labor dispute during World War II led to the federal…

A song celebrating the sesquicentennial of Illinois, 1818-1968. Cover has state of Illinois outlined with a farm scene with in the borders of Illinois.

Two women pour a hot beverage while a man looks on during the Jo-Carroll Energy Annual Meeting.

A woodcut shows the senior stairway and conservatory complete with its glass roof.

Two senior Monticello Female Seminary students perform in a play. One student is in blackface makeup.

Unseen people push Senator Boies Penrose onto a theater stage to explain $25,000 in donations from the Standard Oil Company. Penrose tries to divert attention onto Theodore Roosevelt, but then sees William Randolph Hearst sitting in a box set holding…

United States Senator Paul Douglas stands and speaks to a group of men attending a banquet.

United States Senator Paul H. Douglas delivers a campaign speech to locals in Shawneetown. Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Paul Powell, sits to the right of Douglas.

United States Senator Paul H. Douglas speaks to a crowd gathered at a national plowing contest put on by the Southwestern Electric Co-op, Inc.

Senator Albert J. Hopkins sits on a chair in the middle of a fenced in area labeled "Direct primary vote." Men representing the Republican and Democratic minorities ride the Illinois G. O. P. elephant as it breaks through the Deneen fence and runs…

Senator Florence Fifer Bohrer poses for a portrait. On verso: "Senator Florence Fifer Bohrer; Bloomington, 26th district."

State Senator Arthur J. Bidwill poses for a portrait in profile.

A large delegation of women standing in front of the Chicago & Alton train, "The Daylight Flyer," ready for a trip to Springfield for the formal seating of Florence Fifer Bohrer in the Senate. A Republican from Bloomington, Bohrer was Illinois's…

Photo caption: "Close-up of self-feeder and revolving knives, bundels of oats carried in on canvas roller."

Photo caption: "Elevating seed corn into storage bin."