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Photo caption: "Close-up of Whiteface Shorthorn bull, at state fair, Springfield."

Two horses wearing heavy harnesses pass through a large crowd gathered at the Illinois State Fair.Photo caption: "Looking over heavy harness horses at State Fair, Springfield."

Photo caption: "Street scene, State Fair, Springfield."

Photo caption: "Grandstand, hearing Governor's Day speech, Springfield State Fair."

Photo caption: "Power corn sheller at a farm crib. (belongs with farm corn series)"

A wagon with bangboards for shucking corn by hand sits outside a building with seed corn hung up to dry on the roof line. Chickens are seen wandering in the yard with a chicken coop at the rear of the building.Photo caption: "Farmyard scene with…

Sheep graze in a hay field.Photo caption: "Pastoral scene, sheep, hay field."

Photo caption: "Dairy cows in woods pasture."

A team of horses draw a mechanical hay loader with alfalfa across an open field.Photo caption: "Mechanical hay loader handling alfalfa."

Photo caption: "Typical downstate farm scene on a slide road - big barns, wooded background."

Photo caption: "Well-fed little pigs."

Dozens of ducks approach a feeding trough from both sides of a large pen.Photo caption: "Ducks at feed trough."

An apiary (bee yard) is filled with dozens of beehives used for housing honey bees.Photo caption: "An orchard apiary."

Photo caption: "Honey at the window in a roadside farm booth."

A state route overpass crosses over a four lane U. S. highway with recently upgraded landscaping.Photo caption: "An improved, landscaped. 4-lane U. S. highway with state route overpass."

A macadamized road runs through a rural landscape.Macadamized roads were named for John Loudon McAdam, a Scottish engineer who pioneered the method of mixing small stones with a binder to form roadways, ca. 1820.Photo caption: "Macadamized connecting…

A side road runs through a rural landscape.Photo caption: "Improved side road, gravel and tar composition."

Photo caption: "Graded country road and typical Illinois landscape."

A rural landscape image shows a rural town and the surrounding area.Photo caption: "The cleanliness of the approach to the borders of a country town."

Photo caption: "Ottawa Harbor on the Illinois River at Ottawa, and bridge, looking in the direction of Starved Rock Park."

Several boats dock near a truss bridge on the Illinois River near Ottawa Harbor. A man stands on the bow of the boat on the left side while two women sit on the dock.Photo caption: "Scene at Ottawa Harbor, Ottawa, boats for the Ottawa Boat Club."

A sulphur spring runs under a stone archway.Photo caption: "Sulphur Spring, a natural wonder, near Wedron, Ill."

Photo caption: "Close-up of sulphur spring, near Wedron, Ill."

Photo caption: "Car window view of approach to a village on a state highway."

The freight yard, located in the northwest Chicago suburbs, was one of the largest switch yards in the world in the early and mid-twentieth century.Photo caption: "Proviso freight yards, largest switch yards in the world."