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

Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The vertical log construction of the Pierre Martin house was revealed when the exterior clapboard was removed. The vertical walnut timbers are anchored at top and bottom by wooden pegs, a technique called mortise and tendon, which requires great skill. The spaces between the logs, which were groved along their narrow edges, were filled with stone nogging, or "pierrotage.
Filler, Lamp
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tall cylindrical copper pot with a long thin spout and lid.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. It has a hand blown glass lamp reservoir pegged into a crude piece of wood.
Lamp, whale oil with clock
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp is made of pewter. It stands on a tall, slender cylindrical stem. The reservoir is an inverted pear shaped bulb surrounded by a strap of thinly hammered pewter numbered 1 to 12 in Roman numerals. The reservoir leads to a spout shaped wick opening.
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small tin lamp with "japanning". Japanning is a black heavy lacquer used to make tin objects look better. This lamp has a cylindrical reservoir and a single wick holder. A small holder is fastened to a circular saucer shaped base.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A copper/brass lamp made of several parts. A saucer base has a ring for hanging it up and a small circular handle. On top of the saucer is a tall cylindrical post on which a canting (tilting) reservoir is mounted. There is a single wick holder at the top.
Wm. Deering and Co. Manufacturers of Harvesting Machinery
Multi-Page Item | 23 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Trade catalog from Wm. Deering and Company. Dimensions: 7.5 x 10.25
Swift Illustrated
Multi-Page Item | 16 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Trade catalog from Swift and Company. Dimensions are 4.25" x 6".
Voyageur holding paddle
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington of a voyageur holding his paddle, which is almost as tall as he is. His other hand is hooked onto his braided sash, which typically held pipes, pouches of tobacco, and other supplies. A vest, leather footgear, and a jaunty cap with a tassel complete his outfit.
Tile, Drainage
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Long Ceramic Field Tile. Trumpet-shaped with flared end at the bottom. Tapererd with an enlarged ring and narrow fitting rim on the other end. Hand thrown.
Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue for 1865, of Plows and Other Agricultural Implements and Machinery
Multi-Page Item | 25 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Trade catalog from Furst and Bradley. Dimensions: 8.75" x 5.75".
Candlestick, Miner's
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A forged iron candle holder. The candle is held next to a horizontal piece of iron in the shape of a needle. From the middle of the needle-shaped piece rises a vertical piece with a hook on the end.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tin cylindrical lamp with a single wick channel in the center of the top of the lamp. At the bottom of the lamp is a triangular projection, probably for fastening it to a wall or wooden structure.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A copper/brass lamp made of several parts. A saucer base has a ring for hanging it up and a small circular handle. On top of the saucer is a tall cylindrical post on which a canting (tilting) reservoir is mounted. There is a single wick holder at the top.
Candle with reflector
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A pewter candlestick with a cone shaped reflector mounted perpendicular to the stick. Above the reflector is a cylindrical vent for the heat.
Landscape with Birch Trees
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington. Paper birch trees grow well in the cool climate of the upper Great Lakes. The bark, which peels off in large sheets, can be used to make canoes.
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.
Guibourd-Valle House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The post-on-sill house has a gallery across the front that can be entered from either end. There are two entrances into the house from the gallery. The attic contains Norman truss work with huge oak beams.
Corn Mortar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This corn mortar was used by early McLean County settler John Moore for pounding corn.
Delaware Village in Federal Land Survey
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Federal Land Surveyors recorded a Delaware village near the Mackinaw River. The area west of the village is where John Thompson planted his first crop in 1829.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp with single wick, bulb reservoir for oil fitted into a reused candlestand.
Lantern, Buggy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular buggy lantern. This rectangular lantern has a square footprint and has thin glass panes on three sides. One side opens via hinge to provide for igniting the lantern. The fourth side of the lantern has a reflector panel on the interior and, on the exterior, a folding hinged mechanism for fastening the lantern to the front of a buggy. Oil is held on the bottom by a...
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A trapezoidal wooden base holds a glass reservoir. The glass reservoir has a square peg at its base to hold it into the wood. The reservoir is globular and has a threaded tin wick fixture. The wicks are splayed as is typical of a camphene lamp and there are wick covers attached by chains.
Lighter, Cigar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An elaborately decorated small lamp in the shape of an ancient lamp, like the one like that which belonged to the legendary Aladdin. It has a single wick opening. This is, in fact a cigar lighter.
Lamp, Kerosene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This lamp has a tall cylindrical reservoir which is white glass, handpainted with autumn colored leaves. There is a wheel handle for moving the wick upwards. The base of the lamp is heavy cast iron sporting geometric sunburst, triangular and heartshaped friezes.
Portrait of Jacques Marquette
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This well-known image of Father (Pere) Marquette is from a painting by an unknown artist.
Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bolduc House has a stockade or property fence (pieux debouts), typical of many French homes, which encloses its yard and backyard garden, as well as outbuildings. This provided security and kept domestic animals from straying off the property.
Cahokia Courthouse
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Images of Cahokia Courthouse from different angles
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tall cylindrical chamber lamp with double wick.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A cone shaped chamber lamp made of tin with the double wick fixture of a whale oil lamp.
Lamp, whale oil with clock
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp is made of pewter. It stands on a tall, slender cylindrical stem. The reservoir is an inverted pear shaped bulb surrounded by a strap of thinly hammered pewter numbered 1 to 12 in Roman numerals. The reservoir leads to a spout shaped wick opening. (see also 68.1.1113)
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This pewter oil lamp has a circular base which leads to a cylindrical stem. The stem holds up a larger cylindrical reservoir from which stems a single wick holder. This could be a whale oil lamp, or could have been used with vegetable or other oils.
Lantern, Whale Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)vented lantern cap and handle above.
Bedkey and Folding Bed
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bedkey and folding rope bed
Cahokia Village
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Winter scene at Cahokia from a lithograph by J. S. Wild, published in 1841. Horses roam freely in the Commons. A couple in a sleigh are pulled by a horse. Another couple walks in the snow, the woman keeping her hands warm in a muff, and the man by shoving his hands in his pockets. Two children play in the distance. ...
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A heavy cast iron lamp. It is cylindrical with a two wick holes on the top on a slotted panel which includes a knob to move aside that panel for filling. The lamp is on a long iron handle which moves back and forth.
Lighter, Cigar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small lamp in the shape of an ancient lamp, like the one like that which belonged to the legendary Aladdin. It has a single wick opening. This is, in fact a cigar lighter.
Lantern, Buggy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular buggy lantern. This rectangular lantern has a square footprint and has thin glass panes on three sides. One side opens via hinge to provide for igniting the lantern. The fourth side of the lantern has a reflector panel on the interior and, on the exterior, a folding hinged mechanism for fastening the lantern to the front of a buggy. Oil is held on the bottom by a...
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A pewter lamp with a circular saucer shaped base, a bulbous reservoir and a semicircular handle. The double wick holders are pointed away from one another, characteristic of the camphene lamp.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This canting brass chamber lamp has a double wick.

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