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Members of the Warriors freshman basketball team pose for a team photo.

Warren Eugene Shirey of Indiana, an 1893 graduate of Hanover College, sits for a portrait. Warren is the older brother of William Bertram Shirey and the younger brother of Norman Clifford Shirey, who are also students at McCormick Theological…

Rebecca Herndon, as the widow of A.G. Herndon, signs a warrantee deed giving William H. Herndon possession of several sections of land in Township 16 of Sangamon County, Illinois.

Auditor of Public Accounts James Shields issues a check countersigned by Treasurer M. Carpenter to Stephen A. Douglass for his salary as Secretary of State. Douglass endorses this check on the reverse side.

Warfboat docked at Golconda on the Ohio River.

Several men sit on long benches in a ward of the Kankakee State Hospital.

An unidentified prison warden and several teenage boys look at a table of knives.

Warden Joseph E. Ragen was warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary, which included two prisons, Joliet and Stateville. Ragan served as warden for twenty-five years (1936-1961). His administration was known for its strict order and the productivity…

Ward Hunt reads a newspaper while posing for a portrait. Hunt was a judge and politician who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1872 until 1882. Hunt served alongside David Davis on the United States Supreme Court…

Ward Hill Lamon writes a cover letter to Champaign County Circuit Clerk Webber that accompanies several documents to be filed with cases to be heard in Champaign County Circuit Court. Lamon mentions that he will enter himself as security for costs in…