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Warden Joseph E. Ragen observes a medical procedure on a prisoner. This image may depict one of the U.S. Army malaria experiments on inmates at Stateville during the Second World War, where physicians deliberately infected prisoner volunteers to…

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

Prisoner manufactured license plates were just one of many products produced at Stateville, which included a furniture factory, textile mill, and sheet-metal plant.

A prisoner operates a textile machine at the Stateville textile mill.

Menard contained one of the three electric chairs used for executions in Illinois. The other chairs were located at Stateville and the Cook County Jail in Chicago.

A prisoner and an armed guard pose at the west gate entrance.

Guards line up prisoners in the cell house in preparation for Sunday dinner.

A prisoner takes a cigarette break amidst potted plants and caged birds.

View while standing on Adams Street and looking north on 5th Street in Springfield.

African American soldiers and white officers of the Illinois National Guard, 8th infantry, Company B, at Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

Illinois National Guard doctors and orderlies, 8th infantry, at Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

Barney Oldfield, an automobile racing pioneer, sits in his race car at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. The dirt racetrack at the Illinois State Fair was considered to be one of the fastest in the world.

Miss Adele Gehrmann, daughter of prominent Springfield businessman Charles A. Gehrmann, sits outside the Gehrmann mansion located at 1021 N. 3rd St., Springfield.

The Clarkson &Mitchell Drugstore Onyx soda fountain, located at 5th and Monroe, Springfield. At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was common for drugstores like Clarkson &Mitchell to feature a soda fountain in their establishment to…

Two couples pose in a horse drawn buggy outside the Lincoln Home.

Seventeen women of the Ku Klux Klan pose for a group picture. Women first joined the ranks of the Klan in the mid 1860s. Formed in 1923, during the national revival of the Klan, the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK) was headquartered in Little Rock,…

Portrait of actress Madge Aiston sitting on a couch in long dress, hat, gloves, and boots.

Men install power lines in the countryside using mule drawn carts. The Rural Electrification Administration (REA), created in 1935, brought inexpensive electric lighting and power to rural areas across the United States.

Portrait of Mona Desmond sitting on a bench.

Portrait of John Pierik and his large family.

A Navy recruit uses a jackknife to carve a piece for a model ship.

Navy recruits learn to tie knots.

Navy recruits form to create a live version of their base insignia and to celebrate reaching 100,000 recruits trained at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station during World War I.

Sailors undergo diving training.

Girls drum corps marches in formation while being reviewed by Navy personnel.