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Washing out roots
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Standing in a hole around where a cornstalk was growing, a farmer washes the roots of the plant with a hose to inspect the crop.
Diorama of Mississippian Culture
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In this picture of a diorama at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, Illinois, two Indians, one male and one female, gather corn for food. The male wears a decoration around his neck and a small cloth around his waist. The female wears only a skirt around her waist. Corn grows nearby. It illustrates early Mississippian culture.
Marion's Hired Hand
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This farmhand in Blue Mound Township, McLean County, Illinois, wears a large straw hat and overalls. He sits cross-legged with his hand to his mouth. He has a mustache.
County School Display at State Fair
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This school corn exhibit from McLean County is on display at the 1909 Illinois State Fair.
Map of Funk Farms, McLean County, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This map shows the location of all the Funk Farms in McLean County.
Funk Brothers State Fair Exhibit
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This exhibit for Funk Brothers Seed Company at the Illinois State Fair in 1904 shows a giant ear of corn sticking up and a sign for free samples of seed.
Man hits barbed wire fence
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In this drawing, a farmer runs into a barbed wire fence between cornfields.
Combine on Murphy Farms
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A 930 Pixall Combine harvests corn and throws it into a wagon at Murphy Farms in 1995.
Corn Palace Sign
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sign identifies the Corn Palace, the center of activity at Bloomington's annual corn festival.
Metal Corn Bins
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Metal corn bins for the Ever-Normal Granary store corn of a Funk's hybrid.
Plowing with Two Horses
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A sketch of a farmer, with overalls, a beard, and straw hat, plowing behind two horses in a field with weeds.
Corn Crib Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The side of a wooden corn crib building with ears poking through gaps in the slats of wood. It appears to have a metal roof.
World map of spread of corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This color world map shows where corn orignated and how and when it spread across the globe.
Inside of corn kernel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This diagram labels and explains the various parts of the inside of a kernel of corn.
Ear of corn close-up
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A closeup of an ear of corn still in its husk, tasseled, on the stalk of the plant.

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Washing out roots

Diorama of Mississippian Culture

Marion's Hired Hand

County School Display at State Fair

Map of Funk Farms, McLean County, Illinois

Funk Brothers State Fair Exhibit

Man hits barbed wire fence

Combine on Murphy Farms

Corn Palace Sign

Metal Corn Bins

Plowing with Two Horses

Corn Crib Building

World map of spread of corn

Inside of corn kernel

Ear of corn close-up

Washing out roots

Diorama of Mississippian Culture

Marion's Hired Hand

County School Display at State Fair

Map of Funk Farms, McLean County, Illinois

Funk Brothers State Fair Exhibit

Man hits barbed wire fence

Combine on Murphy Farms

Corn Palace Sign

Metal Corn Bins

Plowing with Two Horses

Corn Crib Building

World map of spread of corn

Inside of corn kernel

Ear of corn close-up