Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Concord Coach
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A nine passenger, Eastern-style Concord road coach. Originally the coach’s body was painted red and its carriage yellow, but the coach has been over painted with the exception of the door scenes. Its original center "jump seat" is missing, (a "jump seat" is an adjustable seat that, when it is not in use, can be hidden from view.) The two slat type seats on top of coach were ...
Palestine Soup
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Chicago, Illinois'
Supermarine Spitfire Mark 1A
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Mark 1A Spitfire is a World War II fighter plane. It has a single seat, multiple guns, and a variety of other armaments. The length of the fuselage is approximately sixteen feet and the wingspan is approximately thirty-six feet. The aircraft's fuselage and wings are painted dark green and ocean gray and its underbelly and under-wings are painted medium sea gray. Targets ...
Telegraph Line
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A twelve-inch length of wire with two sections of glass tubing used as insulation. The glass tubes are sealed at the joints with wax.
Stereoscope, belonging to Abraham Lincoln's children
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wooden stereoscope for viewing stereographs (a.k.a. stereoptic cards), much like a modern "Viewmaster." Peering through the eye holes, the images would appear three-dimensional. Dimensions are 13.5", 11" wide , and 9 1/2" deep.
Pioneer Zephyr
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A streamlined stainless steel high-speed motor three-car train, powered by a 600 horsepower diesel engine. The train is 197 feet long. It weighs ninety-eight tons.
Orient Motor Buckboard
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A flat board automobile with an air-cooled engine in the rear, a tiller for steering, curved wooden cycle fenders, and four wooden wheels with wire spokes.
Coin from Venice
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)AR grosso. Antonio Veneri as Doge, 1382-1400 AD. Obverse: Christ enthroned. Reverse: Doge and St. Mark. 21 mm diameter, weak strike.
The Travel Air Model R 'Mystery Ship' Texaco No. 13 monoplane
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A monoplane, which set hundreds of cross country flight records in the 1930s. The pilot was Frank Hawks. It competed in the 1930 Chicago National Air Races. 'Texaco 13' was originally purchased by the Texaco Company. It had a cockpit full of special instruments for long distance flights and was thus heaviers than its predecesors. The cockpit was fully enclosed. The mon...
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This iron standing lamp has an open cylindrical reservoir which cants (swings).
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A four part "street" lamp. Four lamps which fit together. Each reservoir part is one quarter of a circle. The lamps have single wick spouts which arise from the inside corner of the section. Each quarter section has a handle at the center point of the semicircular outer edge.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This lamp has a double wick fixture made of tin, with the characteristically splayed camphene wick holders. It even holds its own wick covers to keep fuel from evaporating. The fixture is fitted onto a pressed glass bulbous reservoir which ends in a square peg. The peg would have fit into a wooden base.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small glass lamp, bell-shaped, which has a small semicircular glass handle. The pewter cap and wick fixture is fastened to the top of the glass. This lamp which is very similar to 68.1.1150, is different because it has the very distinctive camphene outsplayed pointed wicks.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene depicting circus performers. On the left is a man training a black horse. On the right are two acrobatic clowns performing stunts with papered hoops.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a fourth figure--a boy--wears a yellow double breasted coat, a round hat and carries an umbrella. A fifth figure, a girl wears a bonnet, a blue scarf and has her hands in her pockets.
Lamp, Camphene;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small camphene/kerosene lamp made out of brass. A saucer holds a small cylinder on top of which is a globular reservoir with a pronounced shoulder. This leads to a single wick channel. A conical cap is attached by means of a hinge. There is a circular carrying handle.
Lighter, Cigar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A elaborately decorated small lamp in the shape of an ancient lamp, like the one like that which belonged to the legendary Aladdin. It has a single wick opening. This is, in fact a cigar lighter.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with four scenes of far off places.
Automated Corn Planting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1995, a tractor attached to an automated corn planter seeds a field. Bags of Ciba seed are used.
Row Marker Sketch
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A sketch of a man in a row marker being pulled by two horses. The vehicle has large wheels on each side.
Youngsters with corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three young children sit amongst corn piled on the sidewalk, spilling out of a basket, and housed in two crates.
Horses harvesting cornfield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A team of horses stands at the end of a row of harvested corn and the rest of the unharvested field is on the left. Two horses stand opposite on the other side of a fence.
U.S. Food Administration Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An ad for the United States Food Adminstration reads: Corn The Food of the Nation Serve Some Way Every Meal Appetizing Nourishing.
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.
Stump and Coons Business Receipt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1873, Stump & Coons offered their services for horseshoeing and jobbing.
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.
Schneider's Bakery Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)John A. Schneider's Bakery at 301 S. Center St. manufactured bread, cakes, and pies from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Lenze's Tinsmith Shop Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Emil Lenze manufactured tin, copper, and sheet iron ware, often for use in roofing and spouting in Bloomington.
Central Mill and Elevator Company
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Central Mill and Elevator Company was located at 901 E. Front St. in Bloomington, near the railroad.
Van Schoick and Company Pork Packers Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)William Van Schoick and Company processed the "Celebrated Bloomington Ham." In 1872, the company became the Bloomington Pork Packing Co.
Checking corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer wearing a blue shirt and khaki pants checks a stalk of corn in a field.
Bloomington Book Bindery Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Book Bindery started business in 1854. Books of all kinds were bound in Russia, Calf, Morocco, or Sheep. Russia was a trade name which applied to a shaved cowhide or calfskin which was begetable-tanned with tannins from willow or other barks. Calf paper is colored and embossed, resembles leather and is now used only occasionally for covering books. Morocco...
Hupmobile 5-seater Touring Car 1921
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing for an advertisement
Tile Corn Crib
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This oval corn crib was built of hollow building tile.
Hayes-Custer Building, Normal, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Hayes-Custer Company manufactured stoves, gas ranges, and furnaces in Normal. It was located near the railroad tracks.
N.N. Winslow Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)N.N. Winslow and Company manufactured soap, candles and locomotive grease from 1855 to the 1870s.
Faloon and Geltmacher Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Faloon and Geltmacher was a small company on Washington St. in Bloomington that produced medical devices and patent medicines.
C.H. Freeman Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)C.H. Freeman was a watchmaker and engraver on North Main St. in Bloomington.
Bloomington Star Dairy Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Star Dairy was located two miles northwest of Bloomington.
Bloomington Hoop Skirt Manufactory Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Hoop Skirt Manufactory was a manufacturer and wholesale and retail dealer in hoop skirts, corsets, hosiery, zephyrs (light shawls), and underwear. It was run by D. Winter.

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