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Members of the Galesburg Company stand outside tents with their rifles.

Members of the Galesburg Company gather at camp for a candid group photograph.

Two members of the Galesburg Company pose for a picture out of uniform as people in carriages pass by.

Robert Todd Lincoln makes one handwritten correction in the galley proofs of a speech he gave at Galesburg, Illinois, at the at the celebration of the 38th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debate in Galesburg.

Illinois State Police officers load a truck full of material confiscated from a business accused of running illegal gambling operations. Beginning in the early 1950s, newly elected Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II, 1949-1953, began a campaign to…

A side view shows Illinois State Police officers loading a truck behind a building with material confiscated from a business accused of running illegal gambling operations. Beginning in the early 1950s, newly elected Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson…

Photo caption: "Mme. Ganna Walska McCormick, who has not been in the U.S. for the past five years, shown on her arrival in New York Oct. 31 aboard the Ile de France. She is here to rejuvenate and repair her Park Avenue home. She denied coming to be a…

Floodwater drains from Mound City through a gap in the levee cut by Works Progress Administration men.

A general view looking north shows the gap cut into the south levee at Mounds.

Several men stand next to automobiles in a mechanic's garage. Sign at back reads: "We sell Goodyear automobile tires."

A bearded man and two young girls prepare a garden.

Wealthy Boston merchant Gardner Brewer writes to a "Mrs. Alexander" about Lincoln's assassination and its impact on the nation.

Several women work at sewing machines inside a large garment factory.

A view shows the church-like building of the Garrett Biblical Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston. The school, founded in 1853, was the first Methodist seminary in the Midwest.

Students of a Garrett grade school gather for a class photo, Charles Wilson can be seen at top left. Sign in the foreground reads: "Garrett Un. Dis. 10 Tp. 16 R 7".

Orrell Marietta "Rita" Garrison Estep, Thomas Elver Garrison, and Charles Garrison, the children of Alva and Mary Jane Garrison, pose for a portrait.

The Garrison Hill Cemetery at the old Fort Kaskaskia site stands on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River which is partially obscured from view by the trees. During massive flooding in 1881, the citizens of Kaskaskia relocated 3,000 graves from…

Soldiers in France learn to use gas masks, a device which became essential with the use of chemical warfare during World War I.

Illustrated seven verse song and chorus. "Composed and sung by Miss Anne Rush, the Philadelphia Vocalist." Lyrics depict female singer maintaining a positive attitude despite political upheaval in the United States. Color cover image depicts woman…

Geff fire fighters pose for a group photo in front of their new fire truck.

Photo of General A. Bradley's headstone

Members of the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate pose for a photograph during a visit to the Illinois Soldier's Orphan's Home (later known as the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School) in Normal. Joseph Fifer and…

Benjamin H. Grierson, a cavalry general in the United States Army from 1861-1890, poses for a portrait. Grierson served as a commanding officer during the American Civil War and Indian Wars.