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Photo caption: "Handpicked seed corn drying for storage for next season."

Secretaries review paperwork at the Palatine Commercial Corporation.

A street view shows flooding on Second Street in Mounds looking south.

An aerial view of the nave inside the Second Presbyterian Church in Bloomington features the large pipe organ behind the choir seating.

A man wearing a hat pours a glass of water for a seated guest during a special event.

Portrait of an unknown officer seated in a chair. On verso: "Stephens."

An unidentified man sits on a wooden chair for a portrait. On verso: "Unidentified - related to Banks or Farrell families of Fulton Co. Ill. (See N. B. Banks book 1984)[.]"

People eating and drinking at an event.

People seated and dancing at an event.

Unidentified attendees seated at tables during a reception.

The Wayne Schroeder children pose at the piano for the family Christmas card.

In the top panel a small boat carrying one person and four cannons is hit by an explosion. In the second panel the man is searching for an unknown target while at sea. The lower panel shows the man rowing his repared boat loaded with a torpedo…

Sandbags line the sea wall in Cairo during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.On verso: "Where seepage was stopped at base of sea wall at Cairo."

Sandbags line the sea wall next to a set of railroad tracks during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.On verso: "Where seepage was stopped at base of sea wall at Cairo."

A man reinforces a section of the sea wall at Fort Sheridan along Lake Michigan. On verso: "Arnberg (Supt.)."

Screen Shed Dering No.2 at the Sahara Coal Company, Harrisburg, showing three men looking down on the production floor from an above railing.

Scott W. Lucas smokes in his United States Senate office after his election in 1938.

Influential Illinois politicians Scott W. Lucas (left), James M. Slattery (middle), and Henry Horner (right), admire a pair of birds in Horner's office. Lucas was a lawyer and a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, the…

Chairman of the Illinois State Tax Commission Scott W. Lucas golfs with state auditors Edward J. Barrett, Ray Bergen, and John Stelle in French Lick, Indiana.

With the head of the Democratic mascot thrust against his face, Senator Scott W. Lucas waves to the crowd with hat in hand while standing before a "Roosevelt and Lucas" campaign sign.

Senator Scott W. Lucas meets with Edward Bradach, Louis Wargo, and Joseph Teyshak, three navy servicemen who survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea in World War II. The message on the front of the photograph…

Scott W. Lucas poses for a picture with his wife, Edith Biggs Lucas, and their son, Scott W. Lucas, Jr.