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Smoke pours from smokestacks throughout the German-American Portland Cement Workslocated in LaSalle. Producing Portland cement since 1897, the Portland Cement Works is today known as the Illinois Cement Company.

German prisoners of war load box cars under the supervision of U.S. soldiers at Is-sur-Tille, France Q. M. Depot, post World War I.

German soldiers taken prisoner by American soldiers in the battle of Château-Thierry. The camp at Langres, France held about 5,000 prisoners.

Nineteen hundred German prisoners of war stand in line and await their fate.

Two Nazi soldier graves stand next to a few trees.On verso: "Two Kraut graves near the mess hall - Bamberg, Ger. Mar. 46."

Portrait of Georgia Osborn. On verso: "Recd June 20 1927."

Instrumental music. "Dedicated to 1st Regiment Ills. Nat. Guards and the members of the Chicago Southern States Association on their visit to Augusta, Ga., Nov. 15, 1895." "Compliments of The Augusta Southern Railroad"

Georgene Pree of Springfield poses for a portrait in a long black evening gown. Pree, a sister of William Pree, married Dr. William C. Hays and had six children before her passing in 1967.

George Wilson poses for a portrait showing a small beard under his chin.On verso: "Mazie's grandfather."

George Williams writes a revealing letter to his niece regarding the accuracy of William H. Herndon's work on Lincoln and recounting much Herndon family history.

George William Helmle, a German woodcarver, took up residence and began a woodcarving business in Springfield in 1851.

Several Monticello College students dance the minuet in front of gathered crowd while wearing colonial-style clothing as part of the George Washington Ball.

George Walker, the son of Hon. William Perrin Walker, a probate judge of Berkshire County, poses for a portrait. George's sister, Sarah Walker, married Judge David Davis on October 30, 1838.