Portrait of Henry Christian Remann Jr., who was a close childhood friend of Abraham Lincoln's son Willie. Remann later served as the city librarian at Springfield's first public library, which was renamed the Lincoln Library in 1906.
Mechanical engineering student Henry Edwin Robbins of Springfield, New York, poses for a portrait. Robbins graduated from Illinois Industrial University in 1873.
Henry Etter and his wife, Elizabeth, pose outside of their home in Palmyra. On verso: "Henry Etter and Elizabeth Davidson-Etter, parents of George (Herbert, Myrtle, Horace), James*, Smith (Henry Jefferson), Elijah (Robert (only child)), grandparents…