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Recovered Indian Corn Fragments

Rail Corn Crib

Asahel Gridley, businessman, McLean County, Illinois

Land Warrant

Sailors Harpooning Prairie Hogs

Land Surveyor's Notes in McLean County

Planting Osage Orange

Single Pen Corn Crib

Concrete Fence Post

Steam Engine in McLean County about 1875

Feasting on Sweet Corn at the Corn Bowl

Funk Inbreds

Funk Warehouse

Preparing corn planter

Harvesting Corn on Funk Trust Farm

Cornbelt Bank Building, Bloomington, Illinois (detail)

Cultivating Soybeans with Horses

Corn Planter Advertisement

Grassed Waterway

Views of the Sholty Homestead in Dale Township

Plowing, about 1917

Hedged Cornfield about 1925

Giant Ear of Corn from 1915 Festival

Marking Cornfield

Slatted Corn Crib bins

Untrimmed Osage Orange Hedge Row

Drag Roller

Metal Wheeled Tractor

Melvin Hendricks on Tractor

William Goodfellow Farm

Husking Corn By Hand

Shocked Corn

D.L. White Farmhouse and English Barn

Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois

Shock Frame

Flint Corn

Archaeologists at Noble-Wieting, Illinois

Dennis Kenyon Farmstead in 1874

Oxen on Turn-of-the-Century Farm

Reuben Benjamin

Recovered Indian Corn Fragments
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Fragments of corn recovered from the Grand Village of the Kickapoo in 1972.
Rail Corn Crib
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rail corn cribs like this one, photographed about 1910, were popular forms of early pioneer corn storage.
Asahel Gridley, businessman, McLean County, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Asahel Gridley, McLean County's first millionaire, had much to say about early farming. Gridley is recognized as one of the first citizens to arrive in Bloomington, Illinois. He arrived there in 1831 and played a role in the founding of the first newspaper and telegraph office. He was a prominent businessman, lawyer and a politician. He was also a friend of Abraham Linco...
Land Warrant
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Richard Baldridge used land warrants, similar to this title, to purchase his McLean County farm.
Sailors Harpooning Prairie Hogs
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This satirical cartoon from Prairie Farmer depicts New England sailors harpooning hogs.
Land Surveyor's Notes in McLean County
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)These notes from a federal land surveyor provide the earliest detailed record of McLean County land.
Planting Osage Orange
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Farmers planted Osage orange on the large Sibley Farms in neighboring Ford County.
Single Pen Corn Crib
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Many corn crib forms were possible for corn storage. This is a single crib.
Concrete Fence Post
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This wooden fence was constructed using longer-lasting concrete fence posts.
Steam Engine in McLean County about 1875
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A steam engine in McLean County about 1875.
Feasting on Sweet Corn at the Corn Bowl
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)During the Corn Bowl, patrons sit at long tables and dine on sweet corn in celebration.
Funk Inbreds
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Two men stand by stalks of inbred Funk's corn.
Funk Warehouse
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ears of corn fill a Funk warehouse in the early 1900s.
Preparing corn planter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Harold Smith prepares a John Deere 16 row planter in the spring of 1995.
Harvesting Corn on Funk Trust Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Cat Challenger grain cart and combine work in a cornfield on Funk Trust Farm near Shirley, Illinois, in October 1995.
Cornbelt Bank Building, Bloomington, Illinois (detail)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)After the great Bloomington fire of 1900, the Cornbelt Bank was rebuilt and featured corn ears on the pilaster capitals.
Cultivating Soybeans with Horses
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer, pulled by two horses, cultivates his soybean crop about 1930.
Corn Planter Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An ad for a corn planter with description.
Grassed Waterway
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The development of grassed waterways in the late 1930s revolutionized the appearance of the Cornbelt.
Views of the Sholty Homestead in Dale Township
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Sholty farmstead, built by Jacob Sholty, featured a corn crib, large barn, and his son's residence.
Plowing, about 1917
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A team of horses plows sod in McLean County about 1917.
Hedged Cornfield about 1925
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Behind the hedging is a harvested cornfield with a utility pole and wire running through it. Two barns sit in the background.
Giant Ear of Corn from 1915 Festival
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This giant ear of corn made for the 1915 Bloomington Cornfest is comprised of hundreds of smaller ears of corn.
Marking Cornfield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing of a hand-held planter shows a farmer planting in evenly-marked spaces.
Slatted Corn Crib bins
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bins at either side of corn cribs were designed to hold ear corn.
Untrimmed Osage Orange Hedge Row
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This Osage orange hedgerow in Blue Mound Township, McLean County, has remained untrimmed for many years.
Drag Roller
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows a drag roller, a rotating cylinder on one end and a hitch on the other.
Metal Wheeled Tractor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three farmers in overalls look over the engine of a metal wheeled tractor in the 1930s as a well-dressed man sits on the machine with a jug.
Melvin Hendricks on Tractor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Melvin Hendricks, a farm hand, uses one of the first tractors in McLean County in 1935.
William Goodfellow Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)William Goodfellow built this brick farmhouse in Dale Township.
Husking Corn By Hand
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A migrant worker husks corn by hand in a cornfield in McLean County about 1910.
Shocked Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Shocked corn as it appears in a farmer's field with a farmer looking on.
D.L. White Farmhouse and English Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The D.L. White farmhouse is a central hall I-House.
Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Karr homestead near Bloomington, photographed about 1885, shows an example of what pioneer field and fences were like.
Shock Frame
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Instructions for how to shock corn, compete with diagrams from Rural Affairs.
Flint Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Flint corn was praised by early farmers for its ability to withstand wind and weather, but it was not well regarded as livestock feed.
Archaeologists at Noble-Wieting, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Illinois State University students study the remains at the Noble-Wieting archaeological site in 1972, a former Indian mound in McLean County. The site is in Heyworth, Illinois.
Dennis Kenyon Farmstead in 1874
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sketch of the Dennis Kenyon farm appeared in the 1874 Atlas of McLean County.
Oxen on Turn-of-the-Century Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Oxen, like this team on a turn-of-the-century McLean County farm, were slower than horses but more suited to heavy tasks like prairie breaking.
Reuben Benjamin
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reuben Benjamin works in the Illinois courthouse's law library.

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