Browse Items (22278 total)

Guards line up squads of prisoners in the snow.

These handcuffed prisoners may have been enduring a form of punishment at Joliet in which prisoners were handcuffed to cell bars and forced to stand during daylight hours.

A prisoner walks three dogs in the prison yard.

Visitors line up outside a large prison.

A guard searches a visitor during his visit to a prison.

A large group of boys stand among the visitors inside the front door of a prison during a public visit day.

Joliet's marching band forms up. Known as the "Honor Band," these inmate musicians performed at selected events.

A truck backs up against a building at a newly constructed prison while a guard looks on.

Prisoners eat a meal in one of Stateville's roundhouses as guards observe them.

Members of the prison baseball team pose for a team picture. By the 1920s, intramural baseball was a normal feature of inmate life in prisons across the country. Selected players, like these Joliet inmates, manned institutional teams that played…

A prisoner cuts bread in the prison bakery.

On verso: "Printing press used in printing the Missouri Gazette in 1819. (See Ill in 1818)"

Men work on printing presses next to stacks of newsprint.

Princess Grace of Monaco and her daughter, Princess Caroline, tour the Illinois Pavilion at the New York World's Fair with a group of unidentified people.

Price Carter, the brother of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Joseph N. Carter, poses for a portrait wearing a long beard.

Price Carter, of Tuscola, the brother of Joseph N. Carter, looks to the side during a portrait sitting. Photo signature: "Respectfully yours."

Tuscola resident Price Carter, brother of Judge Joseph N. Carter, poses for a portrait wearing a dark jacket.

Illustrated three verse song and chorus about a lovesick soldier who promises to return to his sweetheart after the war.

Preston King, a former U.S. Senator from New York, comments on the shock and grief gripping the nation in the wake of the assassination of President Lincoln. King also expresses his confidence in President Andrew Johnson.

Due to his advanced age, Preston Bailhache declines an invitation by John E. Boos of Albany, New York, to attend a Lincoln observance. Instead, Bailhache promises to send a few words about Lincoln as he knew him.

Crowds look on as the presidential motorcade for Outer Drive Bridge dedication proceeds along Michigan Avenue, passing by one the Art Institute of Chicago's famous lion statues.