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When Will Dis Cruel War Be Ober and Gib Us Darkies Rest.
Dedicated to "To D.B. Hopkins Esq." Song depicts slaves denouncing secession and celebrating emancipation.
When This Cruel War Is Over
Illustrated four verse song and chorus about a woman longing for an end to war and her sweetheart's return from battle.
When This Cruel War Is Over
Illustrated four verse song and chorus about a woman longing for an end to war and her sweetheart's return from battle.
When the Senate Considers Our Duty to the Phillipines
The upper panel illustrates a partially-filled Senate where legislators are reading the newspaper and yawning during debate on the Phillippines. In the lower panel, the full Senate attends and actively participates in discussion on a ship subsidy…
When The Boys Come Home
Three verse song and chorus about reuniting the country and soldiers from North and South returning home to their loved ones.
When The Boys Come Home
Illustrated three verse song and chorus about reuniting the country and soldiers from North and South returning home to their loved ones.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Four verse song and chorus about soldiers coming home from war.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Illustrated four verse song and chorus about soldiers coming home from war.
When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home
Illustrated three verse romantic song and chorus "as sung by Charles Melville."
When I Am On A Distant Shore
Illustrated four verse romantic song sung to the tune of "The Harp that once through Tara's Hall."
When Abe Comes Marching Home Again
Illustrated ten verse campaign song sung to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." Also called the "Fremont Campaign Song," the song favors John Charles Fremont against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 Republican nominating convention.
Wheaton Park Tool House
Construction workers used concrete pieces from Roosevelt Road to rebuild the old Wheaton Park tool house.
What the Navy is Doing
A Navy press release that chronicles a Navy Custom, "Christmas Cheer for the Kiddies!"
What the Illinois Senate Did
The three-panel cartoon illustrates the political fallout over the Lorimer Scandal in which Illinois Speaker of the House Edward D. Shurtleff and his followers broke the 1909 deadlock over the election of a new U. S. Senator from Illinois by bribing…
What Goes On Today!?
Medical professionals race to Cubs Park for a charity baseball game between the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Herald artists.
What a Place to Let it Out!
A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas sweating over John L. Lewis, American organized labor leader and United Mine Workers of America president (1920-1960), dumping a cat out of the "Period of Inaction" bag into the…
Whack Row De Dow No. 2
Illustrated four verse pro-Union song and chorus. Sheet Note: "No. 2. as sung by Dan Bryant." Dan Bryant was a popular minstrel singer.
Whack Row De Dow
Illustrated four verse pro-Union song and chorus.
Western Stoneware Co.
Men work in the glazing room at the Western Stoneware Company in Macomb.
Western Clock Co.
Several men check on clocks in the "Big Ben" timing room inside the Western Clock Company in Peru. The company originated in 1885 under the technological innovation of Charles Stahlberg, and after several name changes (United Clock Company, Western…
West View of Construction
Construction workers stand on top of the Monticello Female Seminary construction one year after a fire destroyed the school's original buildings on November 4, 1888. While a temporary building was promptly erected to house the students, the new…
West Point Cadets
West Point cadets pose for a group portrait on the steps of a building.
West Gate Entrance, Southern Illinois Penitentiary, Menard
A prisoner and an armed guard pose at the west gate entrance.
West College, 1794
A view of a college building at an unidentified location.On verso: "West College 1794."
