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Janice Apple poses for a photograph with her dog, Shep.

Members of the Jannotta family gather for a group photo. Pictured seated in the center of the photo is Mary Frances Coffin Skiff and her husband Vernon William Skiff, the parents of Stella Skiff Jannotta.

Sally, a laundry maid who worked for the Jannotta family, stands for a photograph holding a pail and broom.

Several people partake in the "Japanese Sun Festival" held at Illinois Field on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign-Urbana.

Jared Teeple of Ingersoll, Ontario, poses for a portrait. Teeple was a member of the class of 1872, the first graduating class of the Illinois Industrial University.

Brothers Jason and Owen Brown stand around a tin stove in Pasadena, California. On verso: "John Brown's sons. Alexander & Howell, Dixon, Ill. made tin stoves for western emigrants, 1850s. This may be one of those stoves."