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Members of the Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission stand with Governor Otto Kerner under the John Hancock Center's space capsule-themed time capsule and a signed I-beam prior to installation on the roof of the building. Several construction workers…

The John Harvard Statue sits in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lincoln's private secretary John Hay reports to Commissioner of Public Buildings B.B. French that: "There are no papers now on file here. Those relating to public matters have been sent to their several departments and private papers are in the…

John Hay accepts Mary Harlan Lincoln's invitation for Thursday, June 8th. In jest he adds: "Please say to His Excellency, that I rather regret I have no engagement for that day; it would have been such a pleasure to throw it over."

John Henderson informs E.A. Burke that "for some weeks sickness in the President's family" and the death of Willie Lincoln has made it impossible to discuss an appointment with Lincoln. Following the letter is a signed, handwritten note by Burke.

John Holbrook of DuBois, Illinois, sits for a portrait. Holbrook was a classmate of Kent E. Keller at Southern Illinois Normal University, now known as Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

A view of the law offices of John J. Brenholt. On verso: "Alton, Ill. Building containing law offices of Col. J. J. Brenholt, where Charles S. Deneen studied law Saturday afternoons while teaching school at Godfrey, Ill."

John J. Hardin, a prominent resident of Jacksonville, poses for a portrait wearing a military uniform. Hardin represented Morgan County in the General Assembly, fought in the Black Hawk War and Mormon War of Hancock County, served one term in the…