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Vachel Lindsay stands between a chair and a framed picture on an easel during a portrait session.

Subtitle "Answer to Young Eph's Lament." A minstrel song celebrating emancipation and Union victory over the South. Edwin Kelly and Francis Leon led one of the most successful and popular minstrel troupes in the United States during the 1860s and…

Francis A. Hoffmann sits for a portrait upon his retirement from banking and other business affairs in Chicago

Mayor Richard J. Daley addresses the crowd gathered at the state meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in Chicago.

Charles E. Purcell poses for a portrait wearing a dark suit and bowtie.

Illustrated three verse song. Lyrics depict singer's mourning for friends who have died and thoughts about their own mortality. Color cover image depicts woman on stage.

Dignitaries enter the Amphitheater at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, lead by General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps and representative of the President of the United States, during a Veterans…

R. E. Brown writes to his sister from Camp Curtain, Pennsylvania, relating news of Lincoln's assassination. Written on April 15, 1865, Brown had just received the news of President Lincoln's death. Brown also relates the widespread but inaccurate…

Corporal Arthur L. Abraham (Company G, 4th Illinois Infantry) poses in a chair at Camp Cuba Libre, Panama Park, Jacksonville, Florida, during the Spanish-American War.

Workers pose for a picture at the Dashiell Motor Co. service building at "26 and Wabash" in Chicago. The following names are written on the photograph: "Smitty," "Andy Stuckey," "J. Philpott," "Paul Thompson," and "Morris Johnson."

Five verse song and chorus sung to "The Hallelujah Chorus," an anti-slavery song used to recruit African American Soldiers.

Major Isaiah Stillman poses for a portrait wearing a large dark tie. Stillman commanded the Illinois militia in the first battle of the Black Hawk War, the Battle of Stillman's Run.

A view of construction taking place on the outside of a Baptist church in Vandalia. On verso: "Vandalia, Ill. Baptist Church - a mission started by Rev. H. C. First when Supt. of State Missions."

Orville H. Browning signs and dates a card.

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.

A young girl and boy sit on chairs playing with a stuffed animal and a toy car.

A love song ballad. Dedicated to "Mrs. Chas. Beavers."

Illustrated three verse song about love and courtship.

Subtitle and dedication on cover: "Marcia Funerale, In memory of our late President Abraham Lincoln, composed and respectufully dedicated to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln."

A "National Funeral March," composed in mourning of the loss of President James A. Garfield, who was shot on July 2, 1881, and died on September 19, 1881. He was the second president to be assassinated. The cover depicts Columbia mourning the fallen…

Five verse song and chorus. Lyrics depict Abraham Lincoln's 1860 campaign.

John F. Kennedy Administration officials Dean Rusk, Secretary of State (1961-1969); Adlai Stevenson II, Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1965); and Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles (1961) ride three camels towards a star labeled "World…

Adlai Stevenson II rides a donkey carrying a basket of "Adlai" campaign buttons while playing guitar. In April 1960, Stevenson returned from South America and criticized the Eisenhower administration for failing to concentrate efforts there, but…