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Football players from Shurtleff College pose for a team picture. Alton Seminary, founded in Alton in 1827, changed its name to Shurtleff College in 1836 to honor Dr. Brendon Shurtleff, of Boston.

Ingersoll Islands, Yukon River, was acquired with the Ingersoll Papers in 1947. Robert Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," was a colonel during the American Civil War, a politician, an attorney, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought.

"The Dream," an oil painting by French artist Edouard Detaille, depicts sleeping French soldiers dreaming of the glory of France's Grand Army. This copy was brought to John Charles Black from Paris by his son in 1908. Black was a Union Army…