Lincoln Heritage Trail Ceremony in Peoria, Illinois.
View Full Item in Bradley UniversityThe 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…
Lincoln statue, Lincoln Park, Chicago
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College Park, Galva, Ill.
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Ingersoll Monument, Glen Oak Park, Peoria, Ill.
C. E. Wheelock & Co. Peoria IllView Full Item in Peoria Public LibraryLower 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…
Tom Thumb Monument
View Full Item in Illinois State University(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…
Fort Sheridan Centennial Legacy Statue of General Philip H. Sheridan.
Eric LundahlView Full Item in Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake CountyPhoto of a statue of General Philip H. Sheridan.
Performer and Fan Off Circus Lot
View Full Item in Illinois State University(Left to right)Laura May Petrillo and Faye O. Braathen, July 30, 1953.
Madonna of the Trail monument, honor roll and Vandalia State House, Vandalia, Illinois
View Full Item in Eastern Illinois UniversityPicture 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…
Greetings from Alton, Ill.
View Full Item in Eastern Illinois UniversityPicture 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…
Port Byron, IL, Civil War cannon made by Phoenix Iron Co., PA, 1861
View Full Item in Eastern Illinois UniversityPicture 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 and Monument
View Full Item in Illinois State UniversityP. 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.
Famed Water Tower, Chicago, Ill.
View Full Item in Eastern Illinois UniversityPicture 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.…
Carter H. Harrison monument
Brubaker, Charles William, 1926-2002View Full Item in University of Illinois at ChicagoView 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…
Bayliss Family, Sterling, Illinois, Alfred Bayliss sundial at Central School
View Full Item in Sterling Public LibraryB/w photograph, 13 x 7 1/1 cm., Bayliss Family, Sterling, Illinois,Dedication ceremony of Alfred Bayliss Sundial at Central School, 3 people unidentified
Ruins of the Residency, Lucknow
John Edward SacheView Full Item in Knox CollegeThis 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
Bullock, Peter (photographer)View Full Item in Chicago History MuseumStudents crowded around General Logan Monument during the 1968 National Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 1968.
Bayliss Family, Sterling, Illinois, Bayliss Sundial at Central School
View Full Item in Sterling Public LibraryB/w photograph, 5 1/2 x 6 1/2cm., Bayliss Family, Sterling, Illinois, Central School Bayliss Sundial dedicated 1912