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Part of the Barrett Line in action on the Ohio River at Cairo.

Newly elected United States Senator from Arizona, Barry M. Goldwater, delivers a commencement address to Monticello College graduates.

Newly elected United States Senator, Barry M. Goldwater (left), has a private conversation while attending the Monticello College graduation ceremonies where he gave the commencement address.

Bart Henson, a resident of Wayne County, mounts an antique rifle on his living room wall.

Barthena Garrison, wife of Dr. Peter Garrison, sits outdoors for a portrait. On verso: "Great Grandma."

Members of an unidentified baseball club pose for a team picture. The writing at the bottom of the photograph reads, "Back Row: Lischer, Miller, Sharhfin, Northrup, Porviance. Front Row: Kimpel, K. Barch, Adams, Isaacs, Hurlburt."

Members of the Kankakee State Hospital's baseball club pose for a team photo.

Fairfield youth baseball players assist in maintaining the grounds near the Fairfield baseball diamond.

A youth baseball player swings at a pitch.

Fairfield youth baseball players, sponsored by Davis & Son Oil Company, pose for a team picture with their managers.

Chicago baseball players pose for a team picture wearing jerseys that say, "HEARST CNG STRIKERS." The Hearst Corporation, founded by William Randolph Hearst, became the largest media conglomerate in the world in the 1920s and has had continued…

Workers take a metalogical sampling at the #4 Basic Oxygen Furnace of Inland Steel in East Chicago, Indiana.On verso: "East Chicago, Indiana 1970; Basic Oxygen Furnace "BOF" metallurgists. Metallurgical sampling at the #4 B.O.F.; Astra DD…

Students practice basket making in the classroom.

Lincoln relates this humorous, somewhat rebald story, known as the Bass-ackwards Tale. It contains many underlined spoonerisms. This tale is a famous relic of the coarser side of Lincoln's humor written in his largest, clearest hand.

A father gives his infant child a bath in the bathroom sink.

An unknown woman twirls a baton before a marching band.

A small building houses a battery of gas fired boilers at an oil pumping station in Bridgeport, Illinois.

A columned building stands in Battle Creek, now Pleasant Grove, Utah.

On verso: "Bavarian children peddling postcards near Hitler's home above Berchtesgaden, Ger. 16 Apr. 46. Jack Reid in picture."

Bayard E. Heath, son of Lawrence Seymour Heath, poses for a portrait.

Students practice balancing with their arms held out and bean bags on their heads.

Construction materials lie next to the Bear Trap Dam at the base of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at Lockport.