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An Illinois legislator speaks at the event.

An unidentified individual points to the crowd while speaking at the event.

An individual speaks at the event.

Several men stand behind the podium while one person speaks.

Two female Special Olympics althletes pose with a man in a suit while standing on the awards podium wearing their medals. The inaugural Chicago Special Olympics took place at Soldier Field in 1968.

A man makes a speech from atop Lincoln's Tomb during Capitennial festivities. Spectators stand on the flag-adorned stairs and balconies on either side of the speaker.

Spencer T. Olin, executive of the Olin Corporation, a manufacturing firm and chairman of the board of trustees at Monticello College, poses for a portrait weearing a dark suit.

Two women pose for a photograph standing in front of the spoil banks created by the digging of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

A view of the spoil banks, called the "Sierra Mountains," shows several piles of earth created by the digging of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Works Progress Administration men load spoiled meat and groceries in Mound City.

Works Progress Administration men load spoiled meat into a truck from the W. E. Parker Store in Mound City.

Employees pour liquid Heath toffee for cutting.

Employees spread Heath candy for cutting.

Drawing or print from an unknown artist showing the "Poffenbarger Mill on Spring Creek."

An etching from James Swann, a Midwest printmaker.

Construction workers spread asphalt on Spring Street in Aurora. On verso: "H. V. Arnberg (Supt.). R. Loge (Asst.)."

Several horses stand in pens outside ranch buildings at Spring Valley Ranch, the Fort Davis, Texas, home of Benjamin Henry Grierson and his family.

Several horses stand in pens outside ranch buildings at Spring Valley Ranch, the Fort Davis, Texas, home of Benjamin Henry Grierson and his family.