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A.E. Fostell asks Samuel B. Arnold for a photograph for which he is willing to pay. On the bottom of Fostell's letter, Samuel Arnold replies that he does not own a photograph of himself and that the only photograph available would be from the…

A.L. Spencer writes and signs his remembrances as a young boy at the Freeport Lincoln-Douglas Debate held on August 29, 1858.

Portrait of Aaron Shaw, a lawyer and a politician who served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives and as a U. S. Representative from the state of Illinois.

Sailors gather on deck for the abandon ship drill.

An abandoned stone quarry that is filled with water and overgrown vegetation. Photo caption: "One of thousands of stone quarries, abandoned for use of other materials. Water, 30 to 90 ft. deep covers all of actual quarry excavation, trees have grown…