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Burned building materials are strewn throughout a room in a building destroyed by fire.

Fire fighters survey the damage to an Albion establishment after extinguishing a fire.

A white sign stands in front of a building destroyed by fire.

A man poses amidst the ruins of a Monticello Female Seminary building that was destroyed by fire on November 4, 1888.

Men extinguish a fire at an unknown location.

Photo caption: "The larger-than-usual crowd at Kilbourne is occasioned by the final passenger train on May 8, 1953. A few have come to watch and ride, but the gentlemen to the right of the truck appears ready to leave, his Brownie clutched in hand."

Photo caption: "Here prior to the final passenger run, C&IM president (Fred) Schrader poses with the engineer and conductor, and F. B. Eckard (2nd from left). Eckard had just come off duty as Night Chief Dispatcher. He had one of the most…

A man stands inside the Lincoln Trail Fina gas station in Springfield.

Filomena Giannotta poses for a portrait wearing a dark dress. She immigrated to the United States from Naples, Italy, on April 23, 1898.

Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and Governor Henry Horner pose for pictures as they stand on the Ohio Levee in Cairo.

Videographers film movies of Works Progress Administration administrator Harry Hopkins and Governor Henry Horner as they stand on the Ohio Levee in Cairo.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Vernon L. Nickell, introduces panel speakers for the film forum on "The High Wall".

Floodwaters reach the tops of gas pumps at the filling station at Route 45 and Route 13 near Big 4 Station during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

Works Progress Administration men fill sand bags on the Ohio levee between 3rd Street and 4th Street in Cairo.

Works Progress Administration men fill in the old toilet on the Walsh Heath property in Ridgway.

A worker fills large bags with white cake mix at the General Mills facility in St. Charles.

An unidentified Sara Lee employee fills aluminum pie tins on an assembly line with cinnamon roll dough.

Five gentlemen pretend to raise their guns and a sword over a card game on a saloon set.

The front entrance stairs of the Field Museum of Natural History lead up to large stone Ionic columns bordering the doors of the museum.Photo caption: "Chicago - architectural design, columns of Field Museum."

Photo caption: "Elevating corn into field crib."