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The Adams family cats, Clemenceau, Snowdrift, and Snowball, sit outside taking in the sunlight.

Governor Charles S. Deneen pleads with a man representing the Illinois Supreme Court as he prepares to chop down the fourth attempt to pass direct primary reform. Reform minded, Deneen sought to allow the people to chose their respective party…

A Fairfield resident brushes away the snow on top of his automobile.

Works Progress Administration men clean the well at the home of George Walton in Ridgway.

Works Progress Administration men clean out a well on the farm of Clint Beagle, 1 and 1/2 miles west of Equality in Gallatin County.

Works Progress Administration men clean debris from South Main Street in Shawneetown.

Works Progress Administration men clean North Main Street in Shawneetown.

Works Progress Administration men clean county record books at the Mound City Court House.

Works Progress Administration men clean South Commercial Avenue in Shawneetown.

Clayton E. Crafts of Austin, Cook County, sits for a portrait. Crafts was a Democratic Representative of the 7th District in the 36th General Assembly of Illinois.

Claude Wyatt stands next to a chair for a portrait.

Nine Monticello Female Seminary students pose for a group photo stand on a staircase wearing white gowns.

Fourteen Monticello Female Seminary students pose for a group photo with school principal Harriet Haskell (seated, far left).

Elementary school children pose in front of a blackboard decorated with student artwork for a class photo.

Thirteen members of the Monticello Female Seminary Class of 1904 pose for a class picture while holding a trophy and a shovel used in a tree planting ceremony with principal Harriet Haskell.

The graduating class of 1890 poses for a portrait with Kent E. Keller (front row, center), the principal of Ava Public Schools.

Members of the Monticello Female Seminary Class of 1888, pose for a photograph on the stairs of a building. Principal Harriet Haskell is seated on the top row on the left.

Several Monticello Female Seminary students pose for a group photo with school principal, Harriet Haskell. All alumnae are identified on verso, and include: Crete Orcutt (top left); May Burnett (top middle); Clara Martin, Valedictory (top right);…

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…

Photo of Clark Mansion, 5th Avenue, New York

Clark Robinson Griggs and Lavinia Collar Griggs, maternal grandparents of Helene Black Abbot, pose for a portrait with their family. Griggs was a veteran of the American Civil War, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and mayor of…

Clark Robinson Griggs was a veteran of the American Civil War, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and mayor of Urbana. Griggs was also instrumental in bringing what would become the University of Illinois to Champaign-Urbana.