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

John F. Kennedy Half-Dollar, 1964
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The left-facing profile of President Kennedy is shown in a simple design with LIBERTY overhead, IN GOD WE TRUST just under the President's image, and the date along the bottom edge.
Corn Palace Sketch
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A sketch of the Bloomington Colliseum turned Corn Palace for the annual Cornfest harvest celebration.
Wisconsin Dells Excursion
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A group of McLean County, Illinois, residents take a boat excursion in the Wisconsin Dells.
O'Neill Bros. Grocery
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A group of men standing in front of the O'Neill Grocery at 1102 W. Chestnut Street, Bloomington, Illinois.
Major Nolton Engine, close-up
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This close-up of the Major Nolton Engine shows details like the antlers, lights, etc.
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.
Cradle or 'turkey wing' scythe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The cradle, or "turkey wing", was used during harvest to cut grain.
Pantagraph Composing Room
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Composing Room of The Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Company, Bloomington, Illinois, is detailed in this photo.
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.
Mole Ditcher
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The mole ditcher was an iron-tipped log, series of logs, or round iron blade (such as seen here) about four inches in diameter, which was pulled through the soil a few inches under the surface.
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.
Cultivating Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer cultivates his field behind two horses in this drawing.
Yellow Dent Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Yellow Dent corn was well known to McLean County's earliest white settlers. This is Reid's Yellow Dent, a later development.
Husking Hook
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A corn husking hook was used to strip the ear from its outer covering. It attachs to the hand with canvas and maintains a sharp metal hook.
Cattle Crossing Broken Fence
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows how cattle and other livestock would wander beyond farms if proper fencing was not installed.
Benz Velo Automobile
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Benz Velo is a motorized two-passenger buggy. Its engine is situated in a box behind the seats. The auto has four wheels with spokes, the back two are 35.5 and the front two are twenty-three inches. The car is painted burgundy with gold trim.
Patsy Babyette; EffanBee Durable Patsy Dolls
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This composition doll has moveable head, arms, and legs. The head has painted dark hair. The face has painted 'googley' eyes, red lips, and pink cheeks. The doll is clothed in light blue dress that is trimmed with red and green. She also has a red scarf, and an apron of multi-colors and materials. Underneath the dress is a white slip. She also has white socks, and black pape...
Ideal Composition Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This doll is comprised of a composition head and hands on a cloth body which contains a squeeze mechanism. The head has brown glued on hair. The face has sleeping blue eyes, painted on eyebrows, pink tinted cheeks, red lips, and white teeth. Her original clothing is white cotton trimmed with lace. Sewn over the body is a pair of bloomers with the dress over. White socks are ...
Three Liberty Dimes
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 1864 dime has a wreath and says "United States of America." The other two coins just have the wreath. All three say "One Dime." The earliest dimes were called "dismes.
Winged Liberty Head Dime
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Liberty is shown in a winged cap. The dime reads "In God We Trust." The date and "LIBERTY" also appear. This dime was also called the Mercury Dime.
Two Nickels, Obverse and Reverse: no date
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The reverse reads "United States of America," and has a number "5" and "cents." There are thirteen stars for the colonies. The other coin shows a wreath with an indefinable shape in the middle, possibly a shield. All else has been worn off.
Liberty Head Nickels, Reverse and Obverse: 1888
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The coin with the reverse reads "V" "Cents", "United States of America," and in small letters, "E Pluribus Unum." There is also a wreath. The coin with the obverse side show a Grecian profile of Liberty wearing a crown that reads "Liberty," and the date, 1888. Around the edge of the coin are thirteen stars that represent the colonies.
Blunt Calked Horseshoes Vs. Sharp Calked Horseshoes
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Calks were knob-like structures placed on a horseshoe to prevent a horse from slipping. Blunt calks are box shaped, the top being most obviously flat. Sharp calks come to a point at the top and look triangular from the side.
Liberty Silver Dollar, 1895
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A left-facing portrait of Miss Liberty. She wears a crown on which is written LIBERTY. A few wheat leaves are stuck in the crown. At the back of her curly hair, she wears a Phrygian cap. Above her head is E PLURIBUS UNUM and below, the date.
All-Bisque Kewpie Doll - Original
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)(Right) This is a Kewpie doll with an all-bisque body. It has light brown hair down the center and back of the head. There are blue wings on each side of the shoulder. The cheeks, stomach, and knees are highlighted in pink over a light beige body. It has black "googley eyes" that look to the right. This doll has one arm missing and one arm unattached and is also broken below...
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.
Old State House, Boston
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Old State House was a merchants exchange and a general meeting place. It was the symbol of royal authority in the colony.
Standing Liberty Half-Dollar, 1945
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Liberty is shown striding towards the left wearing a flowing gown and enfolded in a representation of the Stars and Stripes flying in the breeze. She walks towards a rising sun, symbolic of a new day. Her right arm is outstretched and in her left she carries branches of laurel and oak, symbols of civil and military glory. The word LIBERTY is written overhead. To the right of...
Washington Quarter, 1994
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A left-facing profile with LIBERTY overhead, IN GOD WE TRUST in tiny letters in front of Washington 19s image, and the date below. The Mint mark, D for Denver, appears on the right.
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.
Homemade Cloth Dolls
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The cloth girl doll on the left is thought to be homemade. She wears a dress and cap of red and white stripes with blue trim. The cap has a blue feather on the right side. The dress has white sleeves trimmed with lace. She has white socks and dark blue shoes with red laces. The doll on the right side has blue and white striped overalls with a white shirt. It also is wearing ...
Buggy rims
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)These are three half buggy rims attached to a slat for transportation and storage. They are tacked to the slat across the ends and are chamfered except where eight evenly spaced holes are drilled. The slat originally had four rims attached but one is missing.
Indian Head/Buffalo Nickel, Obverse and Reverse: no date
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)On the obverse, an Indian shown in profile. Above is written LIBERTY. Below the date has been worn off. On the reverse is the image of a bison. Above is UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, E Pluribus Unum, and below is FIVE CENTS.
Golden Dollar with Sacagawea, Obverse: 2000
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sacagewea, the Shoshone guide who was a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition, is shown with her infant son, John Baptiste. Above is LIBERTY, to the left, IN GOD WE TRUST, and on the right the date and the mint mark, a P for Philadelphia.
Japanese Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The doll's head, arms, legs, and feet are made of 'gofun' or pulverized oyster shell over wood. The toes and fingers are tiny and distinct. The head has a black hair wig of horsehair or similar material. The face is Asian in appearance with molded almond shaped set-in shining eyes made of painted glass. The lips are open and painted red. The doll is clothed in a tan colored ...
Corn Design on Float
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A close-up look at a unique design made of corn on a float in the Bloomington Cornfest parade.

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