Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Gas station
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Gas pumps sit in front of the McLean County Service Company at the northeast corner of Jefferson and East streets. An attendant is shown servicing an automobile.
Cooking class, Bloomington High School, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Girls practice their cooking skills in cooking class at Bloomington High School, Illinois.
Sanborn Map, McLean County Court House, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of the McLean County, Illinois Court House, 1901.
Sanborn Map, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of Urbana, Illinois. Shows the area bordered by Broad on the west side and by S. Race on the east side.
Major Nolton Engine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A number of men surround the C&A "Major Nolton" Engine. The engine went to Chicago to fight the Great Fire in 1871, and it became nationally known because it reached Chicago in such short time to help fight the fire.
Sanborn Map, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of Urbana, Illinois. Shows the area bordered by with Main on the north side, S. Race on the west side, with Elm on the south side, and S. Market on the east side. Includes the Masonic Temple and St. Nicholas Hotel.
Map, Cunningham Township, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Map of Cunningham Township, south-west area of Urbana, Illinois.
Map, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Map of east side of Urbana, Illinois.
Atl-atl weight
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The atl-atl weight was a spear thrower used by the Archaic Indians for hunting animals. It was made of stone. Archaic Indians also supplemented their food supply by gathering nuts, berries, herbs and roots.
Kickapoo Bear Chief (Mkopahmah)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bear Chief (Mkopahmah) was a Kickapoo Indian living on the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas. He was photographed by Milo Custer, who visited there in 1906 and 1911.
Fifth Avenue, Looking north from 40th Street, New York City
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide showing Fifth Avenue, New York City
Gable Roof Corn Crib
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Corn cribs like this were built for more than a hundred years in McLean County and were among the most valuable structures on many farms.
Circus performers on trapeze
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Trapeze artists fly through the air in Bloomington, Illinois.
Early Moldboard Plow
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This early moldboard plow was used to open new land for cornfields in spring.
Corn Knife
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The corn knife, about 18 inches long, was often hammered from available scrap metal.
Concrete Block Machine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Concrete block machines like this one were available to make one's own blocks such as the one on the bottom left.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)children had toy magic lanterns as well.
Merna Grain Elevator 1997
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This Merna grain elevator, photographed in 1997, is no longer in operation.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A brass camphene lamp. The saucer base holds an elaborately molded columnar stand which leads to a reservoir with a cup shaped bottom and a broad shouldered top portion. The wick holders are splayed as is typical of ac camphene lamp.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular glass slide with five handpainted figures, all of them appear to be Asian men. A man in the center wears a flat straw hat and holds a sword. On either side of him are men captured in portable stocks who are being dragged or led by a rope. The men who hold the rope are also whipping them, or threatening to whip them.
Heavy Plow
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows a heavy prairie-breaking plow used in early McLean County.
Virginia Theater, Champaign, Illinois - detail
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)the awning is yellow and red and there are trailing vines on the roof. The interior style is Spanish Renaissance with designs of shield, heraldic symbols, busts of Spanish figures such as Cortez Hernandez. The opening play of December 28, 1921 was called “The Bat.”
Harker Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Harker Hall is the oldest and arguably the most charming building still standing on the University of Illinois campus. Harker Hall was built in 1878. When first built, it was a chemical laboratory. It is now home to the U of I Foundation. In 1896, a fire destroyed most of the interior of Harker Hall. From 1902 to 1926, it housed the College of Law.
Map, McLean County Railroads in 1860
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This map shows the path of railroads through McLean County in 1860.
Automatic Vacuum Cleaners Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Automatic Vacuum Cleaner Company's failure in the early 1910s was a result of competition from nationally marketed brands.
Relish dish, belonging to the Lincoln Family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Oval pressed ornate glass dish. Hobnail pattern on bottom. Clear bottom side part, flares to hobnail, top side has scalloped edge. L 8 1/2" x W 5 3/4".
V18440--Loading a Whaleback Ship, Chicago, Ill.
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide depicting the loading of grain into a whaleback boat.
Letter, from Orville Hickman Browning (recovered from Lincoln Home)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letter. "Quincy Illinois March 10th 1846." Four pieces of a letter, all from the same communique. Most likely from Orville Hickman Browning.
Book, "Queens of England
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Book, "Queens of England", published in New York City by D. Appleton & Co., 1861. Tooled leather binding, frontpiece. Book is signed by "Mary Lincoln 1860". 323 pages incl. illustrations and list of plates. L 11 3/4" x W 7 1/4" x H 1 1/2".
V18439--Great Union Stock Yards, Largest Live Stock Market on Earth, Chicago, Ill.
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide showing cattle pens at the Stock Yards.
Print: Landscape in Evening Light
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A print of a bird's-eye view of rolling farmland with a group of cows grazing near the foreground. Dimensions are 27" x 36".
Perdew Ringneck Drake Decoy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A painted ringneck drake decoy carved by Charles Perdew. There are holes in the bottom where a keel weight would attach. The drake is brown on its back with a black chest and head area. The underside is greyish-brown. The head is turned slightly to the side. Dimensions are 12-1/4" l x 6-3/4" h x 5-1/2" with The mate is LVM1993.011.002.
Curtiss JU-4D 'Jenny'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Curtiss JU-4D 'Jenny' is a single-engine biplane. The 'Jenny's' fuselage is painted black and silver, its propeller is black, and its wings are yellow. The plane's height is approximately ten feet, the 'Jenny's' fuselage is twenty-six feet long, and the wingspan is forty-six feet.
Museum of Science and Industry Cornerstone
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Duplicates of physically of biologically "alive" experiments in tubes laid in the Museum of Science and Industry's Cornerstone in 1952. Specifically, these tubes contain: slow crystallization, lotus seeds, parasite eggs, hydrogen and oxygen, viruses, lead diffusion, bacteria, aluminum alloys, molds, proteins, thermostatic clock, metal and quartz. SLOW CRYSTALLIZATION: These ...
Postcard showing Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Color postcard circa 1950's, showing Lincoln Home from the direction of the Dean House (west-northwest). Cannon and lightpost in foreground. L 14 W 9 cm.
Chest of drawers, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Late Empire-style bureau with upper tier of three small drawers, on body of four drawers. Upper tiers are concave, small knobs for handles, center one does not match others. Main body has upper drawer with ogee molded front, lower three are recessed and bracketed by applied S-scrolls in 3/4 relief down outer edges, resting on square plinth at bottom of last drawer. Each draw...
Wardrobe, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)back is composed of seven horizontal boards. Wardrobe rests on a platform comprised of two planks, held off the floor by four short, turned, tapered round legs that terminate in bun feet. W 48" x H 76" x D 18 1/2".
Negative, Glass-plate
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Partial glass plate negative. Picture of Zay Wright in the yard standing under a tree. She is dressed in a white ruffled mid-length dress. She's wearing white sandals with heels, stockings, and has a large white bow in her hair. She is holding a book and is wearing a bracelet and a necklace.
Moving Oxen
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A sketch of a man whipping six oxen in front of a plow in the field.
Shocked Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This field of shocked corn in McLean County was tied up by farmers for drying purposes during the harvest.

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