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Two cartoon drawings are attached to a board with the dedication"Lest He Forget! To Adlai with Love. F. K." The upper image shows a small Adlai Stevenson II dressed as a clown demanding to speak while tugging on the coat of a man speaking at a…

Instrumental music. Cover depicts portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

Lyrics depict United States Army fighting victoriously against the Confederate States of America Army. "As sung by Billy Morris at Morris Bros. Pell and Trowbridge"

German opera singer Eugenie Pappenheim poses for a portrait while leaning against an ivy-covered pedestal.

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut speaks about the United States Flag Ship Hartford's position, holding the Red River, and the Siege of Port Hudson. He also reports on the condition of Confederate troops. Farragut mentions Confederate naval movements…

Robert Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," colonel during the American Civil War, politician, attorney, and orator, poses for a picture with his granddaughter, Eva Ingersoll Wakefield. Their picture is set within a long poem titled, "LIFE."

Robert Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," colonel during the American Civil War, politician, attorney, and orator, poses for a picture with his grandchildren, Eva Ingersoll Wakefield, and Robert G. Ingersoll Brown. Their picture is set within a poem…

A group of young girls wearing white dresses and one boy pose for a group photograph while surrounded by American flags on the ground and next to the paintings on the back stone wall.

Richard Yates, Sr., (seated) poses for a portrait with two unidentified gentlemen at his side.

Lyrics depict comfort and support singer receives from Jesus. Cover image depicts church and home in rural setting.

Senator Scott W. Lucas (2nd from left) stands with Franklin C. Gowen (2nd from right) and an unidentified man between two soldiers of the Swiss Guard in a Vatican archway. Gowen served as the assistant to Myron C. Taylor, President Harry S. Truman's…

Filomena Giannotta poses for a portrait wearing a dark dress. She immigrated to the United States from Naples, Italy, on April 23, 1898.

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…

Jane Kinnear Ewing, wife of John W. Ewing (1814-1867), wears a dark dress with a large bow in her portrait. On verso: "Jane Kinnear Ewing mother of Alex K. Ewing Jane b. June 20, 1816 m. June 12, 1836 d. ?"

Louisa Frances Harris, later Louisa Frances Ewing as the wife of Alexander Kinnear Ewing, sits for a portrait. With Alexander's untimely death in 1874, she remarried, becoming Louisa Frances Powell. Like her husband, Louisa served as Postmaster of…

Adlai Stevenson II basks in the California sun, likely during the presidential primaries of 1956. In the 1956 Democratic primaries, Stevenson's primary opponent, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, quickly won the New Hampshire, Minnesota, and…

Adlai E. Stevenson II, portrayed as a fisherman, uses a fishing rod labeled "1957" to reel the Alaskan Territory into a net labeled "49 & 50" while wearing a hat with a hook labeled "Hawaii". In 1954 Alaska was a U.S. territory and had been since…

The upper panel shows Adlai E. Stevenson II's shoe with a hole in the sole from the 1952 presidential campaign. The lower panel shows him in 1955 wearing a track uniform complete with spiked shoes in preparation for the 1956 presidential campaign.

George Purnell Fisher uses his personal stationary to write Edwards Pierrepont concerning some legal matters.

The 1948 Adlai Stevenson II gubernatorial campaign highlighted on corruption in Peoria, linking Governor Dwight Green and Attorney General George Barrett with gang violence and corruption. Stevenson went on to defeat Green in the election.

A large group of women gather at an unidentified location for a photograph.

Richard J. Daley (right), mayor of Chicago, and Paul Powell (second from right), Illinois Secretary of State, stand with two unidentified gentlemen at an event.