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Corn Mortar

High density corn planting

Tile Silo

Price Jones 1914 Tile Barn

William Goodfellow Farm

Nelson Jones Home, South of Towanda, Illinois

Granger Protest Meeting

C&A Shops, Locomotive

Twelve-horse Hitch

Bone Awls

Projectile Point

Lost Lake' Chert Blade

School Work Corn Exhibit of McLean County

Plowing with Two Horses

Funk Brothers Seed Advertisement

Funk Laboratory

Washing out roots

Audi-Cord Corporation Advertisement

Osborn Bakery Advertisement

H.A. Miner Business Receipt

The National Concrete Block Company

Pantagraph Letterhead

Maxwell, Batchelder and Co. Business Receipt

Slatted Corn Crib bins

Oxen on Turn-of-the-Century Farm

The Heart of the Cornbelt book cover

William Duncan's House at Towanda Meadows

Chicago Stock Yards

Concrete Block Machine

Horse Drawn Corn Picker

Trimmed Hedge in Old Town Township

Grassed Waterway

Land Use on Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 in 1935

Shirley Corn and Horse Show

James R. Holbert

Melvin and Ada Hendricks

Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s

Tile Work in Lexington about 1888

Loading seed into corn planter

Combining corn

Corn Mortar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This corn mortar was used by early McLean County settler John Moore for pounding corn.
High density corn planting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This modern cornfield shows narrow rows and high plant density.
Tile Silo
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Marvin Hougham stands next to a tile silo built about 1920 by his father.
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.
William Goodfellow Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)William Goodfellow built this brick farmhouse in Dale Township.
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.
Granger Protest Meeting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sketch shows a protest meeting of Grangers shown in the History of the Grange Movement.
C&A Shops, Locomotive
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A locomotive sits in the C&A shops in Bloomington, Illinois. C&A (Chicago and Alton) shops were the largest employer in McLean County. There, the first Pullman sleeper, the first commerical dining car, and the first reclining chair car were made.
Twelve-horse Hitch
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows a 12-horse hitch being used to plow a field in McLean County, Illinois.
Bone Awls
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bone awls were commonly used by the Mississippian Indians. They were used to punch holes in skins, clay, etc. They were commonly made of turkey leg bone.
Projectile Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This wide projectile point has two distinct notches on either side. It was used by the Woodland Indians for hunting.
Lost Lake' Chert Blade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a blade used by the Archaic Indians. Made of chert, it has a notch on either side.
School Work Corn Exhibit of McLean County
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This boys corn exhibit of McLean County was shown at a Teacher's Institute on December 17, 1909, in Normal, Illinois.
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.
Funk Brothers Seed Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In order to promote their hybrids, Funk Brothers Seed Company advertised their new products. This ad for 90-day corn ran about 1900.
Funk Laboratory
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A photograph of beakers, flasks, and test tubes inside the Funk Laboratory where hybrids and herbacides were concocted.
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.
Audi-Cord Corporation Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Audi-Cord Corp. in Normal advertises electronic equipment, including cartridges, recorders, and reproducers.
Osborn Bakery Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)S.G. Osborn owned a bakery, confectionery, restaurant and oyster saloon at the southwest corner of Center and Grove.
H.A. Miner Business Receipt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1875, H.A. Miner offered his services as a manufacturer of sash, doors, blinds, mouldings, and house finishings.
The National Concrete Block Company
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers for the National Concrete Block Co. construct the foundation for a building.
Pantagraph Letterhead
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letterhead for the Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co. which offers a variety of printing services.
Maxwell, Batchelder and Co. Business Receipt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1872, Maxwell, Batchelder & Co. manufacturered inks and sold books and stationery.
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.
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.
The Heart of the Cornbelt book cover
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This cover from The Heart of the Cornbelt: An Illustrated History of Corn Farming in McLean County by William D. Walters Jr. covers corn farming from Native Americans to present.
William Duncan's House at Towanda Meadows
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This three-story house built by William Duncan is called Towanda Meadows and designed in Italianate style.
Chicago Stock Yards
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Cattle are stored in pens at the Chicago stock yards.
Concrete Block Machine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Concrete block machines like this one were available to make one's own blocks such as the one on the bottom left.
Horse Drawn Corn Picker
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A horse drawn corn picker harvests the crop in the early 1900s in McLean County.
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.
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.
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...
Shirley Corn and Horse Show
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The entrance to the main tent at the 1912 Shirley Corn and Horse Show was decorated with cornstalks. Hundreds came to celebrate the corn harvest.
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.
Tile Work in Lexington about 1888
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This tile factory of Bartels and Stell was located in Lexington in 1888.
Loading seed into corn planter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Darrell Beehn Jr. loads Pioneer seed into an International 400 Cycle planter near Shirley, Illinois. Darrell Beehn Sr. stands beside the planter.
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.