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A bride and groom sit in front of a large mirror wearing their wedding clothes.

Several female students pose for a group photo on the steps of the North Western Female College. Reverend William P. Jones founded the school in 1855 in Chicago. The college was absorbed by the Evanston College for Ladies in 1871 and in 1874 became…

Several young children ride in a horse-drawn carriage.

Edward Beecher, the first president of Illinois College in Jacksonville, sits for a portrait.

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 World War II era advertisement uses an image of a mother nursing a sick child to encourage women to take American Red Cross home nursing courses.

Visitors ride in gondolas in front of the Art Palace during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Visitors walk through the Electrical Building during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

A set of tipis and a canoe stand on the river's edge opposite a large building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Visitors to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago cross a bridge in front of the Horticultural Hall.

Ulysses S. Grant stands on the front porch of his Galena, Illinois, home with a small child.

Two men stand at the intersection of 7th Street and College Avenue in Aledo.

Several homes and plentiful trees line a neighborhood street in Aledo.

Charles Higgins, wanted for murder by the City of Chicago Police, Frederick Ebersold, Superintendent of Police.

Photo caption:" Moonlight on Diamond Lake near Area, Ill."

An 1860 campaign poster titled, "Edward Everett, Our Next Vice President," features a portrait of the Constitutional Union Party candidate. Everett, a distinguished politician from Massachusetts, lost the election.

Two people stand on the side of the Baptist church in Assumption.

John A. Logan poses for a portrait.

Ice covers businessman and showman P. T. Barnum's American Museum in New York City after it was destroyed by fire on March 3, 1868. The American Museum opened on November 13, 1865, some three and a half years after a fire claimed the original Barnum…

Union soldiers stand along the the Dutch Gap Canal on the James River, Virginia, during the American Civil War. The Dutch Gap Canal was a failed attempt by Union troops to bypass a bend in the river that was surrounded by Confederate forts. On verso:…

Two men crouch on a pontoon bridge constructed by Union soldiers over the James River near Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.

A train waits at the railroad station across from several buildings in a street view of Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil War.

Alvin G. Fields, mayor of East St. Louis, poses for a portrait.

Large crowds look at a stage with a banner reading "Hail to the Chief who in Triumph Advances." Photo caption: "Grand Triumphal Arch and Reception of Lieut. Gen. Grant, at Galena, Ill, August 18, 1865." On verso: "From original photo in possession of…

Spectators line the sidewalks to watch a parade as it makes its way down Main Street in Arthur.