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Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Construction of the Illinois State Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. Dedicated on October 26, 1906, the monument was modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and included the names of all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who…

Miss Firebird waves to the crowd at an unknown race location. Edwina (Winkie) Louise worked as Miss Firebird for Pure Oil Co. during the late 1960s.

Buck Baker, along with two other racing drivers, pose outside their vehicles at an unknown race track. Baker was an American racing driver who won two Nascar championships and forty-six races between 1949 and 1976.

Two girls wearing old fashioned uniforms attend to a customer's truck at the grand opening of the Pure Oil Atlanta Gateway Truckstop.

The Chas. W. Snider towboat was manufactured by Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, WI, for the Pure Oil Co. in January, 1941.

The Anker L. Christy towboat was manufactured by Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, WI, for the Pure Oil S. S. Co. in July, 1941.

An Iron Lung, or "negative pressure ventilator," was a medical device used to assist patient's breathing and ventilation. In this photograph, members of the Springfield local of the American Federation of Labor, present iron lungs to the City of…

Portrait of an unknown Hutchinson woman. The Hutchinson Family Singers were a popular American singing group that toured the United States and Great Britain during the 1840s.

Patoka home built by Elizabeth Nettleton Hutchinson, ca. 1860, after her husband, Zephaniah Hutchinson, passed in 1853. The Hutchinson Family Singers were a popular American singing group that toured the United States and Great Britain during the…

Portrait of an unknown Hutchinson man. The Hutchinson Family Singers were a popular American singing group that toured the United States and Great Britain during the 1840s.

A portrait of two young Hutchinson girls. The Hutchinson Family Singers were a popular American singing group that toured the United States and Great Britain in the 1840s.

The Lockett residence was located in either Weldon or Patoka, both towns where the Locketts lived. Mary Frances Hutchinson, daughter of Zephaniah K. Hutchinson and Elizabeth Nettleton, married David S. Lockett in 1876, and had a daughter, Lela, in…

Maud Ingersoll Probasco, younger daughter of Robert Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," and wife of wealthy businessman, Wallace M. Probasco, was a political and social activist who founded the Vivisection Investigation League.

Ebon Clark Ingersoll, brother of Robert Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Robert Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," colonel during the American Civil War, politician, attorney, and orator, endorses a photograph, "To Marshall P. Wilder-Who knows that mirth is medicine and that laughter lengthens life-from his friend &…

Minnie Maddern Fiske was an influential stage actress of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.