Stage and speaker at the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration. The man seated to the right of the speaker is Clark E. Carr.

View of the crowd and the stage on the east side of Old Main during the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration.

Stage and speaker at the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration. The man seated to the right of the speaker is Clark E. Carr.

View of the enormous crowd at the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration.

Robert Todd Lincoln addresses the crowd at the 1896 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration at Knox College. Harold Way notes that he copied this photograph in 1937 from an original produced in 1896.

Representative Hopkins of Illinois addresses the crowd at the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration.

Grandson of Stephen A. Douglas on stage at the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration. The man seated to the right of the speaker is Clark E. Carr.

Representative G.W. Prince of Galesburg addresses the crowd at the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration.

Clark E. Carr addresses the crowd at the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration.

William Howard Taft, Republican candidate for president of the United States addresses the crowd at the 1908 Lincoln-Douglas debate celebration.