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Melvin Hendricks on Tractor

Tile Corn Crib

Display of Corn and Signs

Inside the Shirley Corn Show Tent

William Goodfellow Farm

Husking Corn By Hand

Prairie Breaking

Illinois Central Railroad, Construction

Brown's Corn Planter

Dennis Kenyon Home in the 1970s

1947 Corn Bowl Parade

Corn-Shock Binder

J.J. Ham House and Barn

Corn Crib on Lewis Bohrer Farm

Nelson Jones Home, South of Towanda, Illinois

Testing Seed Germination at Funk Brothers

Cooksville, Illinois, Grain Elevator about 1910

Rear of Typical I-House

Ethanol advertisement

Moving corn to elevator

Corn head on John Deere combine

Funk Soybean Processing Mill

Plowing Contest

Land Use on Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 in 1935

1948 Corn Bowl program

Pfister Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade

Leo Miller House

Picnic at Funk Farms

Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant

Concrete Block Barn

Heafer Tile Company in Bloomington

A.E. Swap's Residence and Business, Weston, Illinois

Beebee's Patent Cure for Balkiness in Horses Advertisement

Worm Fence

Corn Plant Drawing

Trimmed Hedge in Old Town Township

Farm 46 in 1997

Naffziger Round Tile Barn

Detasselers During World War II

Flat Bottom Drain Tile

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.
Tile Corn Crib
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This oval corn crib was built of hollow building tile.
Display of Corn and Signs
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This display of corn and McLean County's growing methods informs visitors of the many techniques used by farmers.
Inside the Shirley Corn Show Tent
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Six women sit atop the stage inside the tent at the Shirley Corn Show. Cornstalks don the stage for decoration.
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.
Prairie Breaking
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows a yoke of oxen plowing a field.
Illinois Central Railroad, Construction
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The construction of three railroads in the 1850s, including this picture of the Illinois Central Railroad, altered the relationship of the corn farm with the world outside McLean County, Illinois.
Brown's Corn Planter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This example of a corn planter shows how two people were required to work the machinery.
Dennis Kenyon Home in the 1970s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Dennis Kenyon home in the early 1970s.
1947 Corn Bowl Parade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A float from the City of Bloomington depicting a mill wheel travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl Parade.
Corn-Shock Binder
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This illustration shows the tools used in binding corn into shocks.
J.J. Ham House and Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An 1887 view of J.J. Ham's 1873 home south of Hudson.
Corn Crib on Lewis Bohrer Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing of the Lewis Bohrer farm shows a corn crib in the upper right corner.
Nelson Jones Home, South of Towanda, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Nelson Jones home, south of Towanda, was the first of several large Italianate farmhouses built in McLean County.
Testing Seed Germination at Funk Brothers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A man tests seed germination inside a Funk building.
Cooksville, Illinois, Grain Elevator about 1910
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The farmer's grain elevator sits in Cooksville in 1910.
Rear of Typical I-House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The rear of the Isaac Funk home, and I-house, which was built in 1842.
Ethanol advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This advertisement promoting ethanol sits on the fence outside Leo Miller's farm in McLean County.
Moving corn to elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)With a barn in the background, a tractor pulls two wagons of grain to an elevator on the Beehn hog farm in the fall of 1995.
Corn head on John Deere combine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The corn head of a 9600 John Deere combine during the 1995 harvest.
Funk Soybean Processing Mill
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Gene Funk built this soybean processing plant in 1924 in Bloomington, modeled after a mill in Chicago Heights.
Plowing Contest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This 1914 plowing contest featured tractors that competed as hundreds of spectators watched.
Land Use on Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 in 1935
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows how the Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 sectioned off farmland for beans, corn, pasture, and oats in 1935. Adlai E. Stevenson was a Democratic Party politician and dipolomat. He was elected Governor of Illinois in 1948 by a larger majority than any other candidate in the history of Illinois. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for President of the United...
1948 Corn Bowl program
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This program for the 1948 Corn Bowl football game in Bloomington pitted the Illinois Wesleyan Titans against the Eastern Illinois Panthers.
Pfister Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Pfister float made of corn cobs travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl parade.
Leo Miller House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This replacement house on the Leo Miller farm was built around the turn of the 20th century.
Picnic at Funk Farms
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)People gather at Funk Farms for a picnic. Cars are seen in the background.
Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Kickapoo used various words in the diagram to identify parts of the corn plant.
Concrete Block Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This concrete block barn was built around 1900.
Heafer Tile Company in Bloomington
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Edgar Heafer's tile plant, the Heafer Tile Company, produced many tiles for field drainage.
A.E. Swap's Residence and Business, Weston, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing is of the small store of A.E. Swap in Weston, McLean County.
Beebee's Patent Cure for Balkiness in Horses Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is an ad for a patent to prevent balkiness in horses and mules. Balkiness is an unwillingness of the horse to move forward. Horses sometimes become balky due to physical ailments such as sharp teeth, sore feet, a sore back, badly fitting tack or emotional ailments such as fear or stubbornness.
Worm Fence
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This zigzag, or worm, fence was common for pioneer fields, although such fencing took up valuable land.
Corn Plant Drawing
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sketch of a corn plant.
Trimmed Hedge in Old Town Township
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This hedge in Old Town Township, McLean County, is one of the few surviving examples of traditional trimming in the county.
Farm 46 in 1997
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo of a cornfield on Farm 46 near Heyworth in 1997 shows the difference in crop production today from that in the 1930s.
Naffziger Round Tile Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This circular tile sided barn was built by William Naffziger in 1916 in Mount Hope Township, McLean County.
Detasselers During World War II
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A group of female detasselers during World War II at Funk's farm including Gretchen Gottschalk, Barbara Benjamin, Marcella Pierson, unknown, Bessie Gottschalk, Phyllis Bender, Mary Johnston, Betty Belle Alverson, Isabel Gottschalk, Barbara Zook, Louise Gottschalk, May Johnson, and Alice Johnston.
Flat Bottom Drain Tile
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drain tile was made of clay and used for drainage of fields. It has a flat bottom and is 2-4 inches in diameter.

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