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Employees of the Palatine Commercial Corporation work at their desks.

Stephen A. Douglas writes an endorsement of William C. Eames Jr. which is also signed by James Shields, M. Carpenter, William Prentiss, J. Lamborn, Lyman Trumbull, S.H. Treat, Sidney Breese, Browne and J. Butterfield.

A group of men and two young girls stand outside the Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Company at 119 East Chicago Avenue. Jonas Engberg and Charles Peter Holmberg founded the Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Company in 1884.

A dog lies in front of a rural landscape setting in a photo studio.

A dog wears glasses and a bonnet during a photo session.

The engraved portrait, signed and inscribed in pencil A. Lincoln with additional ink inscription: "To W.M. Kasson/Feby 18th 1861" written on a small slip attached to the bottom of the image is enclosed in a contemporary gutta-percha decorative hinged…

On cover: "To the Immortal Memory of the People's President, Abraham Lincoln. Is mournfilly inscribed this song by a soldier of the Republic". "Before everything but the republic he chastely dropped his eyes" "He was the marble lover of liberty" -…

Portrait of Enoch Rawalt, a veteran of the American Civil War.

Enoch Snyder sits for a portrait wearing a suit and tie. On verso: "Father of Mary Caroline Snyder and Laura Lavinia Snyder (Mrs. James L. Adams, Sr.) (Margery Adams' Maternal Grandfather)."

A group of female singers perform.

Four window displays decorate the entrance to a Palatine Commercial Corporation store.

On verso: "Entrance to Dachau Concentration Camp - Ger. April 46."

An envelope in black mourning border addressed to John Malone by Edwina Booth Grossman is empty, without an accompanying letter. Mr. Malone is residing at the Players' Club.

This Illustrated envelope is addressed to George P. Davis of Beloit, Wisconsin. The bright yellow envelope has a three cent postage stamp in the upper right corner with a Galesburg postmark stamped over it. The envelope is illustrated on the left…

This envelope is addressed to George P. Davis, Esq. of Beloit, Wisconsin, with a Bloomington, Illinois, postmark. The bright yellow envelope is illustrated with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln engraved by Mendel. The stamp once affixed to the envelope…