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A sales clerk stands in front of a wall covered in record albums and watches a man examine a camera.

A sale bill from the sale of the estate of Ninian Edwards, Sr., notes the purchase of a wagon and yoke of oxen for $92.50 by Ninian Edwards, Jr.

Saint Paul's Universalist Church was the first Universalist church in Chicago. Organized in 1836, the first church building was built in 1844. The image is a photograph of the fourth church building erected in 1888 on Prairie Avenue and 30th Street.

An officer gives a man a vision test on an Illinois Secretary of State "safety-first mobile."

An advertisement features saddles sold by W. J. Tackabery, manager of Fife & Miller, the largest carriage house in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. The saddles are all numbered on the front page, and listed from left to right, top to bottom,…