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Civil engineering student John Augustus Ockerson of Skane, Sweden, poses for a portrait. Ockerson graduated from the Illinois Industrial University in 1873.

Charles Wallace Silver of Springboro, Ohio, poses for a portrait. Silver was a member of the class of 1872, the first graduating class of the Illinois Industrial University.

Agricultural student Howard Silver of Springboro, Ohio, poses for a portrait. Silver was a member of the class of 1872, the first graduating class of the Illinois Industrial University.

Student Miles Fayette Hatch of Burton, poses for a portrait. Hatch was a member of the class of 1872, the first graduating class of the Illinois Industrial University.

Professor J. Burkitt Webb taught Civil Engineering at Illinois Industrial Universityfrom 1873-1880.

Don Carlos Taft, professor of Geology at Illinois Industrial University, poses for a portrait.

Professor Stillman Williams Robinson taught Mechanical Engineering and Physics at Illinois Industrial University from 1870-1878, serving as Dean of the College of Engineering in 1878. He also taught at the University of Michigan (1866-1870) and Ohio…

Colonel Samuel W. Shattuck served as professor of mathematics Illinois Industrial University beginning in 1868 after resigning his position as acting president of Norwich University. In 1873, Shattuck became acting regent of the school for six months…

An unidentified professor from the Illinois Industrial University poses for a portrait.

Thomas Jonathan Burrill served as Professor of Botany and Horticulture from 1868-1882, University Vice President from 1882-1891, and acting president from 1891-1894 at Illinois Industrial University.

Professor Ambrose Pascal Sevilon Stuart served as Chair of Chemistry at Illinois Industrial University from 1868-1874.

Illinois Industrial University Professor Parker poses for a portrait.

John McCutcheon illustrates the 1903 Chicago livery driver strike in a three-panel cartoon showing a young couple hurrying to their wedding venue only to find another couple and no minister. The bottom panel shows the minister and a woman standing…

A G. O. P. elephant looks out a window at an angry man straddling Niagara Falls representing opposition from steel plants and power plants to diverting water from the Great Lakes as part of the Mississippi Valley Waterway Project.The Mississippi…

The Republican elephant walks across the 1928 Republican Convention floor on a plank labeled "Platform plank opposing debt cancellation" while holding a newspaper declaring "$535,000,000 in Gold has left the U.S. for foreign shores in the last eight…

Tax payers watch as the GOP's elephant grazes from the income tax reduction proposal of 1927 as Democratic party leaders pull the donkey away, fearing a trick.

The Illinois Senate President elections of Walter I. Manny on January 22, 1913, and Stephen D. Canady on January 6, 1915, gave the Democrats control of the Senate for the first time since 1893. Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon hints towards…

A three-panel cartoon depicts two bankers founding a private bank for small investors due to the state's lack of supervision for private banks. The middle panel shows lines of depositors entering the bank. The bottom panel illustrates the bankers'…

Opportunity in the form of a goddess knocks on the door of the 1912 Democratic National Convention while Alton B. Parker and William Jennings Bryan fight inside. Former New York Governor and 1904 Democratic presidential nominee Alton B. Parker headed…

The three-panel cartoon illustrates the political fallout over the Lorimer Scandal in which Illinois Speaker of the House Edward D. Shurtleff and his followers broke the 1909 deadlock over the election of a new U. S. Senator from Illinois by bribing…

The two-panel cartoon shows scenes of Americans arriving at hotels abroad and the greetings the received before and after the Lorimer Scandal. The clerk in the top panel exclaims "Ah! I see monsieur is from Illinois! Zat grand state of Lincoln and…

William Jennings Bryan prepares to speak while holding a megaphone to the ear of the Democratic donkey as he prepares to accept the Democratic nomination for president for the third time. Bryan, the forty-first U.S. Secretary of State, was the…

The crowd at the 1908 Democratic Convention gathers at the top of the viewing stands to watch the 300th anniversary celebrations in Quebec City taking place outside and ignoring the convention activities. Uncle Sam serves as ring leader of the…

Billboards advertising cigars, medicines, and bars line the street with figures pointing at pedestrians in an attempt to get their attention. A man wearing a hat reading "Olde" chases a second man down the street while a cart driver stops to watch. A…

This cartoon parodies the number of speechesDemocratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan made during his November 1, 1900, visit to Chicago. Chairman of the 1900Democratic National Convention, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, hurries William…