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Sommer Bros. Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade

Single Row Corn Picker about 1935

Corn Blotter Advertisement from 1916 Corn Show

Eugene Funk

Funk Brothers Products

Map, McLean County Railroads in 1900

Adjusting belt on combine in October 1995

Dumping corn into pit before drying

High density corn planting

Chisel Plowing

Price Jones 1914 Tile Barn

Corn Palace at the Bloomington Cornfest

Soybean Varieties Advertisement

Life Magazine Illustration of McLean County Hogs

King Corn from 1916 Corn Show

Spraying before planting

James R. Holbert

Melvin and Ada Hendricks

Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s

Cartoonist View of Tractor Contest

Cultivating Corn with Horses

Corn Dryers

Combining corn

Murphy Farms in winter

Tile Barn Remains

Cornbelt Exposition Sign

Laying Tile about 1940

Cornbelt Cube

Laying Tile About 1940

Corn Husking Contest

Chinch Bug Barriers

Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 Report

Block House, Carlock, Illinois

Corn Sheller Advertisement

Plank Fence

James Wilson Jessee

Karr Homestead, Bloomington, Illinois

P.M. Stubblefield Homestead in 1887

Chicago Stock Yards

Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist

Sommer Bros. Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Sommer Bros. Seed Co. float travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl parade.
Single Row Corn Picker about 1935
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A single row corn picker machine helps harvest the crop in a McLean County field about 1935.
Corn Blotter Advertisement from 1916 Corn Show
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A blotter from the 1916 Bloomington Cornfest advertises the Corn Palace.
Eugene Funk
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a portrait of Eugene Funk, who began breeding and selling corn seed. He was a noted seedsman who pioneered the use of hybrid corn. He was the son of LaFayette Funk, co-founder and director the Chicago Union Stockyards.
Funk Brothers Products
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows a range of Funk Brothers seed products.
Map, McLean County Railroads in 1900
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a map of McLean County railroads and grain elevators in 1900.
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.
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.
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.
Price Jones 1914 Tile Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This tile barn was built by Price Jones in 1914 to house feeder cattle. It is located near Towanda.
Corn Palace at the Bloomington Cornfest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Corn Palace was the center of the 1915 Bloomington Cornfest. This photo was taken at night.
Soybean Varieties Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This Funk Brothers Seed Company advertisement show different varieties of soybeans.
Life Magazine Illustration of McLean County Hogs
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The caption from this Life Magazine photo of McLean County hogs reads, "Fat-sated hogs on Illinois farm wallow in thick carpet of shelled corn. Farmers prefer to waste corn on livestock rather than sell at ceiling prices.
King Corn from 1916 Corn Show
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This cartoon shows how locals felt about the Bloomington Cornfest, depicting a man as King Corn.
Spraying before planting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)McLean County Farm Service uses machinery to spray herbicide on land farmed by Murphy Farms in the spring of 1995.
James R. Holbert
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)James R. Holbert worked with the Funk Brothers in McLean County in developing many new plant products.
Melvin and Ada Hendricks
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows Melvin and Ada Hendricks on their wedding day, February 25, 1939.
Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows the business section of Cooksville in 1885.
Cartoonist View of Tractor Contest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This cartoon depicts a 1916 tractor contest and demonstration.
Cultivating Corn with Horses
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer cultivates a field of corn with a team of two horses.
Corn Dryers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Corn is suspended from the ceiling for drying purposes.
Combining corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In a John Deere 4400 combine, Darrell Beehn harvests corn near Shirley, Illinois, in September 1995.
Murphy Farms in winter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)During the winter months, snow covers the topsoil of cornfields with dead cornstalks, exposed here at Murphy Farms near Shirley.
Tile Barn Remains
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The remains of this round tile barn include the walls. It is located north of Normal, Illinois.
Cornbelt Exposition Sign
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sign advertises for the Bloomington Corn Exposition Oct. 16-21, 1939.
Laying Tile about 1940
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers lay tile in a McLean County field about 1940. A large Buckeye machine is used in the process.
Cornbelt Cube
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This home, constructed around the turn of the 20th century, is called a Cornbelt Cube, or American Foursquare, because of its shape.
Laying Tile About 1940
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers lay drainage tile in a trench of a field about 1940.
Corn Husking Contest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An arial photo of a corn husking contest at Funk's Farm with hundreds of spectators.
Chinch Bug Barriers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This farmer with his tractor erected barriers in his fields to prevent chinch bugs from destroying crops.
Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 Report
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The report from the Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 in Heyworth in 1932 shows the number of acres devoted to each crop and their growing condition. 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 Pre...
Block House, Carlock, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This concrete block home south of Carlock, Illinois, was built around 1900.
Corn Sheller Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is an ad for a corn sheller, which would provide feed by removing kernels from the cob.
Plank Fence
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This plank fence at the Karr Homestead has a wide range of planks used, and a snake fence with riders or braces in the center.
James Wilson Jessee
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A veteran of the Civil War, James Wilson Jessee worked as a farmhand after the war.
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.
P.M. Stubblefield Homestead in 1887
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Phineas M. Stubblefield built this farm and home in 1887.
Chicago Stock Yards
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Cattle are stored in pens at the Chicago stock yards.
Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This masthead is from an anti-monopolist newspaper briefly published in Saybrook.

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