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"To his excellency the President of the United States" " As a solo or quart". "Author of Viva L'America-Flag of the Free." Cover depicts a statue of a woman (Columbia?) surrounded by American Civil War era soldiers.

An unidentified football team poses for a team photo.

Adlai Stevenson III ponders running for president while looking down a road with shoeprints featuring one shoe with a hole in the bottom in reference to Stevenson's father, former Illinois Governor and two-time presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson…

The Foley family relocated to Canton in 1902, and established "Foley's Shaft" on the Shepley farm, a very successful coal mining company.

A woodcut shows two women walking away from the entrance to Fobes Hall on the Monticello Female Seminary campus.

Men perform excavation work at Midtown Hudson Tunnel, more commonly known today as the Lincoln Tunnel. Construction of this tunnel began in 1934, funded by the New Deal's Public Work's Administration, and opened on December 22, 1937.

Men use equipment purchased by the Pendleton Construction Company to work on the new Skyline Drive. Skyline Drive is located along the Blue Ridge Mountains in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Floyd Thomas Voris of Iowa, an 1892 graduate of Highland Park College, sits for a portrait.

Stateville Prison housed prisoners in four "roundhouses" constructed on the basis of British philosopher and criminologist Jeremy Bentham's panopticon design, which allowed guards to observe all the cells in a roundhouse from a centrally located…

Florence Herdman (back left) poses with her students in front of a school in Mount Vernon, Illinois. Florence dedicated her life to teaching and never married.

Florence Herdman (third row far right, seated)gathers on the steps of Franklin School with the rest of the school's faculty. Florence was a lifelong teacher and never married.On verso: "Franklin School Faculty; Note hair ribbons (P.S. I could be…

Florence Herdman poses for a portrait wearing a light-colored dress with a dark bow at the collar, Florence dedicated her life to teaching and never married.

Florence Fifer Bohrer walks down a store-lined street in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Florence Fifer Bohrer poses for the camera while riding a horse.

Florence Fifer Bohrer shakes her mother, Gertrude Lewis Fifer's, hand after she was sworn into the Illinois Senate in 1925 as her daughter, Gertrude Bohrer, looks on.

Florence Fifer Bohrer shakes Governor Adlai Stevenson II's hand at a reception.

Florence Fifer Bohrer poses for a photograph wearing a long satin gown. Photo signature: "To my dear Florence who has achieved so much and kept her sweet soul. Filicite Oglesby; Cinci Bolognette; 19 November 1924 Oglehurst."

Flora Thurman, of Abingdon, poses for a portrait in a dress with brocade on the corset and cuffs. On verso: "Uncle Jap's wife."

Flora Merrill, a member of the 1906 Monticello Female Seminary graduating class, poses for a portrait.

Students perform floor exercises while standing next to their desks.

Sand bags line the entrance to the mine shaft at Peabody Mine Number 43 near Harrisburg.

A view of flooding from Route 51, looking south from South Cairo. The Highway Bridge can be seen in the distance.

An aerial view shows flooding around Mound City during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.