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by Gustave Aimard. Title from page 1. Printed in triple columns. "November 15, 1877."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels, volume 1, page 199, no. 20. Illustration…

Large cone of solid sugar. Wrapped in blue paper and tied with a twisted cord. 10.25" high. This object goes with 68.1.290, a sugar cutter. Sugar was sold in solid cones or bricks and was a luxury ite…

B/w photograph, 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 cm., Settlers, Sterling, Illinois, Whiteside County, William D. Dudley, Pioneer, First meeting of County Commissioners Court held in Dudley home, Lyndon

Mainly correspondence, 1875-1891, written by C.H. Barstow at the Crow Agency, to his sister, Eliza, and brother, Rogers L. Barstow, in Massachusetts. Also several letters from Barstow's wife to his si…

B/w photograph, 10 x 15 cm., Settlers, Sterling, Illinois, Whiteside County, unidentified pioneers

1830 volume. The diaries of John M. Roberts primarily focus on his family's daily farm life in Tazewell County. The Roberts family left their New York home in the summer of 1831 and travelled to Illin…

Accounts, Mar. 8 - June 7, 1850, and diary, Mar. 9 - May 5, 1850, kept by C. B. Houghton en route to the California gold-mining region from Sacramento, and at Rough and Ready and Deer Creek. Accounts…

by an Old Scout. Caption title. Illustrated paper cover in colors. Printed in double columns. "November 16, 1910"--Title page. "Stories of adventure"--Title page. "Four of them suddenly swam at the tr…

B/w photograph, 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 cm., Settlers, Sterling, Illinois, Whiteside County, Ray Guy, Clerk of County Court, Pioneer

The doll consists of a stuffed fabric body with a hand-carved wooden torso, carved and painted facial features, and painted hair. She wears a red and white polka-dotted dress.

Mainly correspondence, 1875-1891, written by C.H. Barstow at the Crow Agency, to his sister, Eliza, and brother, Rogers L. Barstow, in Massachusetts. Also several letters from Barstow's wife to his si…

The most significant transcontinental journey in U.S. history, the Lewis and Clark Expedition was not only recorded in the journals and observations of the two captains, but also by four other members…

Three-volume memoir written in 1867 covering the years 1816 to 1867 by Henry Hunt Snelling. The following topics predominant Snelling's memoir: his boyhood and army life at Fort Snelling, Minn., conta…

Letters (Jan. 24, 1849-May 28, 1850) written from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Sacramento by Henry Perry to his Bridgeport family (parents Mr. and Mrs. David Perry, si…

B/w photograph, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 cm., Sterling, Illinois, People, James Kelsey, Born in New York 1823

Mainly correspondence, 1875-1891, written by C.H. Barstow at the Crow Agency, to his sister, Eliza, and brother, Rogers L. Barstow, in Massachusetts. Also several letters from Barstow's wife to his si…

by Edward S. Ellis. Title from page 2. Printed in double columns. "April 12, 1890."--Caption. Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels, volume 1, page 339, no. 313.

Mainly correspondence, 1875-1891, written by C.H. Barstow at the Crow Agency, to his sister, Eliza, and brother, Rogers L. Barstow, in Massachusetts. Also several letters from Barstow's wife to his si…

The diaries of John M. Roberts primarily focus on his family's daily farm life in Tazewell County. The Roberts's family left their New York home in the summer of 1831 and travelled to Illinois by hors…

Autobiographies of Fox Valley pioneers / transcribed from original documents by Viola (Ashman) Swanson ; indexed by Rebecca (McNabb) Minetti