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Several mill workers prepare sisal fiber for spinning.

A man poses with large bales of sisal fiber.

Three employees lay out individual pieces of sisal fiber.

Two men wind spools of sisal fiber using small spinning machines.

George William Helmle, a German woodcarver, took up residence and began a woodcarving business in Springfield in 1851.

Portrait of a young woman in full dress.

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,"…

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…

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…

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).

A side by side portrait of James Bankhead and Jane Bankhead Beattie.

Portrait of Agnes Young Beattie.

Portrait of Reverend John G. Bergen, who became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield in 1835.

Portrait of Chloe Bishop and William Bishop, a veteran of the War of 1812.

Portrait of Mary Ann Coffey Depew Bishop and Harvey Bishop.

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.

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.

Portrait of Rachel Clarke.

Portrait of William Marcus Cox, a veteran of the American Civil War and a successful farmer in Bloomington.

Portrait of Nancy Creel.

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 Esther Ridgway Diller and an infant named Emma.

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 Jane Dunlap.

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…