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Members of the Illinois National Guard pose for a picture standing behind a trio of rifles.

Members of the Illinois National Guard stand with their weapons at camp.

African American soldiers and white officers of the Illinois National Guard, 8th infantry, Company B, at Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

Illinois National Guard doctors and orderlies, 8th infantry, at Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

A large well dressed group gathers for a picnic.

Members of the Illinois Readers Theatre at Northern Illinois University pose on risers with binders in their hands in front of the Illinois Sesquicentennial logo.

Members of Northern Illinois University's Readers Theatre pose for a photograph with the Illinois Sesquicentennial logo.

Members of the Illinois Senate meet in the sate capitol. Senator John J. Parish waves his hand while seated at the center seat of the back desk.

John J. Parish stands and addresses members of the Illinois Senate while they are in session at the Illinois State Capitol.

Members of the Illinois Senate meet in the Capitol building.

Former members of the Illinois Senate, including Florence Fifer Bohrer, pose for a photograph during at 1953 reunion.

Three mice with horns on their head run around a large wheel of cheese labeled "Illinois Senatorial Cheese." A woman representing Illinois wields a large knife as though she is going to cut off their tails similar to the nursery rhyme "Three Blind…

"A Sesquicentennial of history and song starring 13 Prairie State musical groups and Chicago-born Ralph Bellamy; A color television special/Presented by Illinois Bell Telephone" Program for a television special shown Monday, Dec. 4, 1868, hosted by…

Several people sit at the head table at a banquet for the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers.

Illinois Soldiers' College and Military Academy in Chicago advertising its first session, September 15, 1866. Initially opened as a military academy in 1861, the Illinois Soldiers' College was organized in 1866 to help disabled Illinois veterans…

Construction of the Illinois State Arsenal, located at 2nd and Monroe streets in Springfield. After being destroyed by an act of arson in 1934, the building was rebuilt and renamed the Illinois State Armory in 1937.

Construction of the Illinois State Capitol building located in Springfield. Beginning in 1869, the construction of the Illinois State Capitol building lasted for nearly twenty years, and was completed in 1889.

The interior of the Illinois State Capitol Building's dome features several staircases including spiral staircase leading up to the pinnacle and outside on the top of the building.

Fifteen women pose for a group photo and wave to the camera at the 1933 Illinois State Dairymen's Convention in Shelbyville.

Photo caption: "Street scene, State Fair, Springfield."