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The slide reads: "Peoria Courthouse 2/3/78, 1978-75-16 Keith Carrigan." The photograph shows Keith Carrigan and an unidentified woman at the Lincoln Heritage Trail Ceremony at the Peoria County Courth…

Picture postcards Color postcard. Front of card oriented vertically. Correspondence

Picture postcards Black-and-white postcard. View includes monument in center of image.

Lower entrance to park, off of Abington Street. Statue is by artist Fritz Triebel and was unveiled in 1911. Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899 came to Peoria to practice law in 1857, but is best remembe…

(Left to right) William B. Antes, press agent of Ringling Barnum Circus and of Evansville, Wisconsin, Joe Minchin, circus fan from Patterson, New Jersey, and Faye O. Braathen, Madison, Wisconsin, at T…

Photo of a statue of General Philip H. Sheridan.

(Left to right)Laura May Petrillo and Faye O. Braathen, July 30, 1953.

Picture postcards Caption on back of card: The Madonna Monument was erected by the D.A.R. on the Old Capitol grounds. It has the following inscription: 'The Cumberland Road built by the Federal Govern…

Picture postcards Front of card oriented vertically, and embossed with a lavender-tipped daisy. Attached to front of postcard with pale blue ribbon is an accordion-folded strip of paper with ten black…

Picture postcards Caption on back of card continues: Model serial number 312, one of 1,000 made, was state of the art in weaponry at the time. Was located at the former Grand Army of the Republic Post…

P. T. Barnum grave, Mountain Grove Cemetery. The land for the cemetery as well as Seaside Park was given to the city by Barnum. June 14, 1949.

Picture postcards Caption on back of card: The famed Water Tower, on whose site the great Chicago fire of 1871 was stopped, has been preserved as a monument to that terrible disaster. Color postcard.…

View of the top part of the Carter H. Harrison monument, showing the figure of Harrison, a former mayor of Chicago. The monument stands in the south part of Union Park, just south of West Washington B…

B/w photograph, 13 x 7 1/1 cm., Bayliss Family, Sterling, Illinois,Dedication ceremony of Alfred Bayliss Sundial at Central School, 3 people unidentified

This place in Lucknow, India was constructed in the late 18th century to serve as the residence of the British Resident General. It grew to contain a garrison of British soldiers (many with families)…

Students crowded around General Logan Monument during the 1968 National Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 1968.

B/w photograph, 5 1/2 x 6 1/2cm., Bayliss Family, Sterling, Illinois, Central School Bayliss Sundial dedicated 1912