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A view shows houses along the far side of "The Great Two Mile Curve" at Romeoville prior to the filling of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

An aerial view shows "The Great Two Mile Curve," at Romeoville, ten months after the filling of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The location of a recently removed passenger bridge can be seen in the lower right corner of the photo.

Large utility structures stand on the side of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Large piles of rock stand along a section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal post-construction.

A large cantilever conveyor crane moves earth excavated during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Smoke fills the sky over a section of the empty Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal post-construction.

A couple watch a man standing next to his docked boat in the Chicago River while pedestrians cross the DuSable Bridge overhead.Photo caption: "Chicago - boating from base of Boulevard Bridge (city recreational scene).

An anti-Hearst protester takes to the Chicago canals. The Hearst Corporation, founded by William Randolph Hearst, became the largest media conglomerate in the world in the 1920s and has had continued success to this day.

Two women measure material before cutting it and sewing cancer dressing pads.

A woman examines a box of Brach's chocolates on an in-store display during the Christmas season.

Soldiers put on a cannon demonstration for onlookers in front of the Dome Building at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.

This cannon with a broken wheel is the gun front of a Confederate mock battery placed within the trench and fortifications at Port Hudson, Louisiana, during the American Civil War.

A boater in a canoe moves along the right side of a small island on the Du Page River near Hinsdale.Photo caption: "Recreation - island in DuPage River, forest preserve district, near Hinsdale, Ill."

Members of the J. C. Capps Clothes staff pose for a group photo at a luncheon meeting in 1933.Left to right: Frank Miller, Louis Tribble, W. T. Capps, M. S. Meyer, Max Hup, Harry Friedman, Herbert Capps, Tillinghast, J. G. Capps, Leo McGinnis, Carl…

Civil War portrait of Union Army Captain J. R. Muhleman, staff member of Major General John McCauley Palmer.

John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford, "The Poet Scout", a famed adventurer, poses for a photo dressed as a cowboy.

A girl hand washes a Buick automobile near Bloomington.

The Pullman Company warns its passengers that "CARD SHARKS can beat any honest player." The humorous broadside depicts a hand holding five aces and shows two common methods of cheating: cupping cards and hiding a card up the sleeve.

Carey Trumbull Thurman, a farmer of Maquon, Knox County, and his wife, Rachel Briggs Simpkins Thurman, pose for a portrait. On verso: "Grandfather Thurman born in Highland County, Ohio."

A note in the lower left hand corner of a pencil drawing of a balding man with a mustache reads: "Caricature of me by Massenguer made at Cafe Gallant Dec. 24, 1923." The drawing is thought to be of Edwin Booth Grossman. On the reverse side of the…

A photograph of Carl Sandburg, poet and Lincoln biographer, signed to "Henry Horner with all good wishes." Henry Horner was the twenty-eighth Governor of Illinois (1933-1940).

Carl Sandburg wears a suit and bow tie for a portrait.

Carl Sandburg celebrates his 75th birthday with a dinner in the Crystal Ballroom at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago.

Carl Sandburg stands in the doorway of his birthplace on his 70th birthday.

Carl Sandburg speaks at the inauguration of Governor Adlai E. Stevenson. The event took place at the Illinois State Armory.