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Albert Roswell Short, a chemistry student at Illinois Industrial University, poses for a portrait

Portrait of Albert S. Edwards, who was the son of politician Ninian Wirt Edwards and Elizabeth Todd Edwards, Mary Todd Lincoln's sister. Albert worked with the printing firm H. W. Rokker Company in Springfield, and later became custodian of the…

Albert W. Wells of Quincy, Adams County, a Democratic Representative of the 35th District in the 36th General Assembly of Illinois, sits for a portrait.

Three men walk along a set of tracks next to the pump station inside an Alcoa Mining Company mine in Rosiclare. On verso: "Top view of pump station on 800' level."

Three men including Alex Wilson stand by the double bulk-head in Cairo.On verso: "Alex Wilson standing by the double bulk-head which he built in Cairo at the waterworks."

Civil engineering student Alexander Culbertson Swartz of Westmoreland, Colorado, poses for a portrait. Swartz graduated from Illinois Industrial University in 1873.

Portrait of Alexander H. Stephens, who was the Vice President of the Confederate States during the American Civil War, and the fiftieth Governor of Georgia, 1882-1883.

Captain Alexander Kinnear Ewing sits for a portrait. Ewing's parents, John W. Ewing (1814-1867) and Jane K. Ewing (1818-1887), were among the early settlers of Logansport, Indiana, in Cass County. He married Louisa Frances Harris (1844-1899) and they…