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Henry Dodge, shown here in an American officer's uniform of the 1820s or 1830s, served in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, and as the first governor of the Territory of Wisconsin from 1836-1841. A Democrat, Dodge served as Wisconsin territorial…

Portrait of Jane Dunlap.

Portrait of Shelby Moore Cullom, a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as the seventeenth Governor of Illinois, 1877-1883.

Portrait of Esther Ridgway Diller and an infant named Emma.

Portrait of Shelby Moore Cullom, a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as the seventeenth Governor of Illinois, 1877-1883.

Portrait of Nancy Creel.

Portrait of William Marcus Cox, a veteran of the American Civil War and a successful farmer in Bloomington.

Portrait of Rachel Clarke.

Portrait of William Carson, an early settler of Sangamon County. He and his wife, Cynthia Broadwell Carson, had fifteen children and lived on a farm near Pleasant Plains.

Portrait of Reverend F. J. Briggs, who came to Bloomington in 1851. He was the minister in charge at the Universalist Church on Front street.

Portrait of Mary Ann Coffey Depew Bishop and Harvey Bishop.

Portrait of Chloe Bishop and William Bishop, a veteran of the War of 1812.

Portrait of Reverend John G. Bergen, who became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield in 1835.

Portrait of Agnes Young Beattie.

A side by side portrait of James Bankhead and Jane Bankhead Beattie.

A photograph of Carl Sandburg, poet and Lincoln biographer, signed to "Henry Horner with all good wishes." Henry Horner was the twenty-eighth Governor of Illinois (1933-1940).

Illinois state legislators Katherine Hancock Goode, Florence Fifer Bohrer, Rena Elrod, and Lottie Holman O'Neill are pictured (right to left) in Springfield. Bohrer was the first woman to serve in the Illinois Senate. In 1921, O'Neill was the first…

A large delegation of women standing in front of the Chicago & Alton train, "The Daylight Flyer," ready for a trip to Springfield for the formal seating of Florence Fifer Bohrer in the Senate. A Republican from Bloomington, Bohrer was Illinois's…

Two men wind spools of sisal fiber using small spinning machines.

Three employees lay out individual pieces of sisal fiber.

A man poses with large bales of sisal fiber.

Several mill workers prepare sisal fiber for spinning.

William C. Booth, along with several of his fellow soldiers, pose for a picture in front of a building at Camp Logan.The legible names from left to right beginning with the back row: Paulsen, Jos. M. Whitfield, W. C. Booth, J. E. Buckbee, Harvey B.…

William C. Booth addresses fellow soldiers of the 1st Illinois Infantry standing at attention. Booth served in both the Spanish-American War and World War I.

William C. Booth, and several of his fellow soldiers from the 1st Infantry, Illinois National Guard, pose for a picture in front of their camp. The legible names on the photo read from left to right: Parker, Roth, Roth, Cop. Little, Bert Little,…