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Campaign banner promoting Benson for President and Kirkpatrick for Vice-President, along with the party motto

Governor Charles S. Deneen stands with several men between a set of railraod cars and a building at the Benton Mine Rescue Station. Illinois Mine Rescue began when Bill No. 42 was approved in the Illinois Senate on March 4, 1910. The law was written…

American and British delegates, including (from left to right), G. H. Hall, Sol Bloom, Richard Law, Harold W. Dodds, [ ], and Scott W. Lucas, meet in Bermuda during the Second World War to discuss the issues involving Jewish refugees and the…

Berra D. Ackley poses for a portrait.On verso: "To Lolle Bixby. Never forget our walk in Charrute."

Businesses, including a post office and restaurant, surround the square in Berryville. The town water tower is visible in the background.

French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon devised a method of tracking suspects and convicts through a system of measuring and classifying specific features of the person's anatomy. Photographs of these features helped police identify suspects and…

Betty Moratz Singh poses in the forest among rocks, plants, and trees. Betty was born October 4, 1920 in Akron, Ohio to Armin Moratz and Ada Rush Moratz. The Moratz family relocated to Bloomington, and after marrying Bhagat Singh in Chicago on June…

A group of people stand outside a large building located between Eldorado and Harrisburg during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.On verso: "People waiting to be taken off between Eldorado and Harrisburg."

A landscape view shows a flooded farm between Equality and Ridgway during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.

A religious song about going to heaven. Cover depicts an angel with wings and holding a banner that reads "Sacred Ballad."

Bible school children march in a parade in downtown Fairfield.

A patriotic song celebrating the bicentennial of the founding of the United States. Song contains patriotic symbols from the revolutionary war. Cover depicts fife and drum corps with Revolution era U. S. flag.

Floodwaters surround the railroad station in Harrisburg during the 1937 Ohio River Flood.