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Eleanora Horine Morrison, wife of William R. Morrison, stands next to a chair during a portrait session.

Julia Maria Jayne Trumbull watches her son, Walter Trumbull, sleep.

Lyman Trumbull sits for a photograph wearing a dark suit.

Lyman Trumbull poses for a portrait learning against a talbe filled with books and writing implements.

William Seth Jayne and his wife, Margaret E. Palmer Jayne, pose for a portrait.

Portrait of a John Charles Black in his later years. Black was a Union Army Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet-Brigadier General during the American Civil War, a U.S. Congressman, and a U.S. District Attorney at Chicago.

Built in 1860 on Jackson Street, between Michigan and Wabash Avenues in Chicago, the Trinity Episcopal Church featured two towers on the front of the building. The church was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

David Davis III, of Bloomington, poses for a portrait wearing a plaid suit. Davis was the son of George P. Davis, and the grandson of Judge David Davis.

Men and women in period dress meet with Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission chairman Ralph G. Newman.

On verso: "General manager Richard Ferris and Ralph Newman, chairman, Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission admire the chocolate Ferris wheel made by pastry chef Heinz Zache honoring the Chicago 1893ers participating in a Diamond jubilee held at the…

Members of the Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission stand with Governor Otto Kerner under the John Hancock Center's space capsule-themed time capsule and a signed I-beam prior to installation on the roof of the building. Several construction workers…

Harriet M. Hurst, wife of Elmore W. Hurst of Rock Island, a Democratic Representative in the Illinois General Assembly from 1888-1898, poses for a portrait.

The Richaldson children playing on their back yard tractor tire swing. On verso: "Keith Richaldson, Jay Richaldson, Dwayne Richaldson, Andy Van Awken: Youngest; 809 Rigdon Rd. Carbondale."

Norman Springer of Springer Orchards, Carbondale, working on his tractor. On verso: "Rt 1."

The administrators of the estate of James Greer of Macon County, Alabama, present for the record an inventory of Greer's property and slaves.

Six children pose for a group photo at their Confirmation ceremony at Saint Matthew Lutheran Church.

Wealthy Boston merchant Gardner Brewer writes to a "Mrs. Alexander" about Lincoln's assassination and its impact on the nation.

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,"…

Amanda Woodward sits for a portrait. On verso: "My grandmother, my mother's mother."

A ballad about the Sangamon River in Illinois. Cover photo of Sangamon River.

An 1861 souvenir sheet features portraits of the members of the Union Defense Committee of Chicago published by the Chicago Evening Post. Portrait sitters are identified as: "1. Judge Thomas Drummond, 2. Judge George Manierre, 3. Julian Rumsey, 4.…