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A woman reads a story to a group of young children sitting inside a small library room.

Two women walk in front of the Old State Capitol complex during restoration in the late 1960s.

A man stands inside the Lincoln Trail Fina gas station in Springfield.

Pedestrians cross at an intersection along Sixth Street in Springfield. The Strand movie theater near Sixth and Adams Streets is visible on the right side.

Nursing students look on as three people create a plaster cast.

Nursing students look on as three people apply a plaster cast to a subject.

Young adults play a game where they pass a card from one person's nose to the next without using their hands.

Sculptor Ed Palumbo sculpts the head on a bust of Adolf Hitler.

A young couple takes part in a Jitterbug contest.

Three couples dance the Jitterbug during a contest.

Two women dance the Jitterbug together as other couples dance around them during a contest.

Three teenage boys take pictures of each other in the living room of a home.

An exterior view shows the light-colored Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church building.

A farmer feeds his pigs.

A wide view shows a farm that includes pens used to house livestock.

A man cuts wooden boards inside a sawmill.

A farmer weighs a pig standing inside a metal holding pen.

A person stokes a fire inside a machine shed.

Governor and Mrs. Green hold two children in their laps while several others sit on the floor nearby during their visit to Baby Fold.

Governor and Mrs. Green stand with several young children wearing hats during their visit to the Baby Fold in Normal.

Governor and Mrs. Green look at a picture book with a young girl lying in bed during the Green's visit to the Baby Fold orphanage in Normal.

Several children surround Governor and Mrs. Green in a dormitory when the couple visited the Baby Fold orphanage in Normal.

Governor Dwight H. Green writes in a book on a child's bed while his wife, Mabel Victoria Kingston Green, and several children look on during a visit to the Normal-area orphanage.

Two members of the Flying Valentino's Circus Act perform on the trapeze.

A member of the Flying Valentino's Circus Act reaches for a trapeze while midair.