Miscellaneous Collection
Title
Miscellaneous Collection
Description
A selection of photographs from a wide range of collections. Images in the Miscellaneous Collection include broadsides, oversized photographs, cased photographs, and images of persons from individual files in the Audio Visual Collection.
Publisher
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Rights
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum holds all rights and permissions.
Collection Items
Preparation of Sisal Hemp Fiber, International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago
Several mill workers prepare sisal fiber for spinning.
James Beattie and Jane Bankhead Beattie
A side by side portrait of James Bankhead and Jane Bankhead Beattie.
Bales of Sisal Hemp Fiber, International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago
A man poses with large bales of sisal fiber.
Laying Out Sisal Hemp Fiber, International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago
Three employees lay out individual pieces of sisal fiber.
Winding Spools of Sisal Hemp Fiber, International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago
Two men wind spools of sisal fiber using small spinning machines.
George William Helmle
George William Helmle, a German woodcarver, took up residence and began a woodcarving business in Springfield in 1851.
American Woman and Her Political Peers
A women's suffrage cabinet card that was distributed at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It depicts Frances E. Willard, national president (1879-1898) of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, surrounded by her "Political Peers,"…
Senate Delegation
A large delegation of women standing in front of the Chicago & Alton train, "The Daylight Flyer," ready for a trip to Springfield for the formal seating of Florence Fifer Bohrer in the Senate. A Republican from Bloomington, Bohrer was Illinois's…
Four Women Legislators
Illinois state legislators Katherine Hancock Goode, Florence Fifer Bohrer, Rena Elrod, and Lottie Holman O'Neill are pictured (right to left) in Springfield. Bohrer was the first woman to serve in the Illinois Senate. In 1921, O'Neill was the first…
Carl Sandburg
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).
John G. Bergen
Portrait of Reverend John G. Bergen, who became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield in 1835.
William Bishop and Chloe Bishop
Portrait of Chloe Bishop and William Bishop, a veteran of the War of 1812.
Harvey Bishop and Mary Ann Coffey Depew Bishop
Portrait of Mary Ann Coffey Depew Bishop and Harvey Bishop.
F. J. Briggs
Portrait of Reverend F. J. Briggs, who came to Bloomington in 1851. He was the minister in charge at the Universalist Church on Front street.
William Carson
Portrait of William Carson, an early settler of Sangamon County. He and his wife, Cynthia Broadwell Carson, had fifteen children and lived on a farm near Pleasant Plains.
William Marcus Cox
Portrait of William Marcus Cox, a veteran of the American Civil War and a successful farmer in Bloomington.
Shelby Moore Cullom
Portrait of Shelby Moore Cullom, a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as the seventeenth Governor of Illinois, 1877-1883.
Shelby Moore Cullom
Portrait of Shelby Moore Cullom, a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as the seventeenth Governor of Illinois, 1877-1883.
Portrait of Henry Dodge
Henry Dodge, shown here in an American officer's uniform of the 1820s or 1830s, served in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, and as the first governor of the Territory of Wisconsin from 1836-1841. A Democrat, Dodge served as Wisconsin territorial…
Collection Tree
- Illinois Photographic Collection
- Miscellaneous Collection