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

French switchboard
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph. Label description: 'The French type switchboard, used in advanced zone section, sending Signal School 1st Depot Division, France.'
Bedkey and Folding Bed
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bedkey and folding rope bed
Postcard, depicting Lincoln Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photo postcard showing white-painted Lincoln Home with black shutters. Large flagpole on corner, two plaques on either side of gate. One corner are a fire hydrant, mailbox, and sign saying "Lincoln Home". In background, two smokestacks can be seen. On front steps is house number "430", and a black mailbox is seen on the door frame. L 5 1/2" x W 3 1/2".
Commemorative Coin, depicting Lincoln as railsplitter and friend
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper coin with Lincoln, railsplitter and friend. One of first coins struck during campaign. Beardless Lincoln facing right, inscription & decorative border along edge. Back: tall man wields mallet while other holds wedge into trunk of tree, log cabin in background. Obverse: "Hon. Abraham Lincoln, 1860" & engraver's name under shoulder. Reverse: "The Railsplitter of the Wes...
Chair, from the residence of Ninian W. and Elizabeth Todd Edwards, brother-in-law and sister of Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Victorian open balloon-back side chair. Top rail has carved flowers: two roses in middle, two nine-petal flowers with leaves at sides. Middle rail is curved and has four petal flowers with leaf motif. Modified shield-shaped seat, front legs Cyma curved and have leaf motif carving on front side, slightly rounded at back and sides into point feet. Back legs slightly curved, tw...
Sellman's Blacksmith Shop Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The building of Ralph with Sellman's blacksmith shop was at 107 S. Madison in Bloomington.
Careless talk got there first
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 20 x 28 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
Framed print of religious subject
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)woman sitting next to him with arm around his shoulder. Man wears black clothing, woman wears blue dress with white shawl. H 14" x W 10"
The battle-wise infantryman...
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 20 x 27.9 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
Is your trip necessary?
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 28 x 20 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
Cattle wash at Champaign County Fair, 1978
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Cattle wash at Champaign County Fair, 1978
The room where Lincoln died
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Petersen rooming house was across the street from Ford’s Theater. Lincoln was carried there after he was shot. He lived through the night and died early the next morning.
We French workers warn you...
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 28.3 x 40, published by the United States Government Printing Office
Watercolor Print from Early to Middle Victorian Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)each flower is numbered. In plain oval frame. H 10" x W 8".
Patent Model of device to refloat boats (reproduction)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of model boat with system of accordian bellows on sides and seven long poles to work system extending along sides of boat from base to well above deck. Model is stained in red oak stain. Bellows are grey. Boat is a long oval set on a stand.
Lark; Alouette
Audio | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sung in French by the male Choir of the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). Used with permission.
On the Way to Paris; Passant par Paris
Audio | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sung in French by the male Choir of the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). Used with permission.
You can't afford to miss either! Buy bonds every payday
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 11 x 13.9 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
High density corn planting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This modern cornfield shows narrow rows and high plant density.
Chisel Plowing
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A 45 Cat Challenger pulls a Landall plow in a cornfield early in the season.
The gun that killed Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth fired this small derringer into the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head, inflicting a mortal wound. Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theater. The gun is on exhibit at the Ford’s Theater Museum in Washington D.C., a National Park Service site.
Adjusting belt on combine in October 1995
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Darrell Beehn, Jr. adjusts a belt on a John Deere 4400 combine in October 1995.
Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth's boot
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)John Wilkes Booth was wearing this boot the night that he shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington D. C. After shooting Lincoln and stabbing Major Rathbone, Booth leapt from the Presidential Box. Catching his foot on bunting draped on the front of the Presidential Box, he fell to the stage, breaking his left foot. The boot is on exhibit at the Ford’s Theater Muse...
A message about food from the President of the United States
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 18.3 x 26 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
Postcard of Abraham Lincoln's Home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Postcard featuring a view of the Lincoln Home between 1895 and 1906. The postcard was created in California in 1920. A large elm tree with only one main branch is in front of the home. A striped awning covers the front door and a plaque is visible just to the right of the door. Heavy vegetation and an urn decorate the front yard. Unused. L 5 1/2" x W 3 1/2".
Bust of Charles Dickens
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)White Parian ware bust of Charles Dickens. Pedestal base, full bust from chest up. Frock coat, vest and tie, long beard and moustache, short hair. Inscribed "Charles Dickens J & TH." H 8 7/8".
Whatnot, owned by Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Triangular corner whatnot with five graduated shelves. Spindle-turned legs & supports. Top two shelves have open carved sides, bottom three have plain sides. Very small modified bun feet on pegs. H 56".
Walton Plow Shop
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Walton Plow Shop manufactured plows and farm implements in downtown Bloomington from 1857 to the 1890s.
Battle Ground of Resaca, No. 2
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of Battle Ground of Resaca, Georgia, No. 2. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensions...
The Green Diamond, Illinois Central Railroad
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing, color
Chicago and Alton train
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Examples of hobo signs
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing, with text
Art class at WPA/FAP Negro Art Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Dumping corn into pit before drying
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Al Bateman dumps havested grain from his truck into a pit before drying.
Passenger train, Chicago and North Western Railway
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Men's daywear
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing, color, pen and ink
Buick Special Convertible Coupe 1938
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Newspaper notices to whalemen
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Newspaper advertisements
Fort Sumter, exterior view
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of an exterior view of Fort Sumter. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensions: 8"x10".
Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, No. 3
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of the Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, No. 3. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensi...

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