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

Walking Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer with a hoe walks corn about 1935.
1947 Corn Bowl Parade Pioneers Float
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A float from Union Auto Insurance, depicting an old covered wagon, pulled by horses, travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl Parade.
Japanese Bisque Happifat Doll
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bisque molded doll. It is all one piece except for the moveable detached arms. The arms are moveable by means of a connected elastic thread. The face has painted eyes with eyelashes. The smiling open mouth has red lips and two tiny teeth are seen. The hair is molded with a brown streak from the center of the back of the head to the forehead. It resembles a mohawk. The clothe...
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.
Dining car, Chicago and North Western Railway
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Bringing corn to the elevator in the 1950s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Several full grain trucks line the street on their way to the grain elevator.
Soybean Chemical Sprayer
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This chemical sprayer douses soybean plants with insecticides to help crop growth.
Dorland's Saw Mill and Tile Factory
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows the residence, sawmill, and tile factory of Joseph Dorland in Randolph Township.
James A. Stephens Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)James A. Stephens erected this brick farmhouse in Mount Hope Township in 1877.
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.
Funk Seed Corn in Shipping Crates
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Funk's seed corn packaged in wooden crates.
Reuben Benjamin
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reuben Benjamin works in the Illinois courthouse's law library.
La Cueva de Salamuse
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of a stage set with a woman in costume.
Moses Montefiore Temple, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows a man sitting on the steps of the Moses Montefiore Temple. Muddy streets surround the temple.
Map, Cunningham Township, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Map of Cunningham Township, north-west area of Urbana, Illinois.
Wickizer Bakery, interior
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Breads and rolls fill the counter of the Wickizer Bakery, which was at 603 N. Main, Bloomington, Illinois.
Fabrification of 155 shells
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph, 4 x 7 in. French caption reads "En Meurthe et Moselle. Fabrication des noyaux de 155 par des femmes 20-4-17
Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The photo shows South Center Street in Bloomington, Illinois, around 1857. Shops, sidewalks, livestock, etc. are all visible.
Dennis Kenyon Farmstead in 1874
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sketch of the Dennis Kenyon farm appeared in the 1874 Atlas of McLean County.
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.
Cast of 'London Assurance'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This picture shows the male and female cast members of "London Assurance".
Isaac Funk
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Isaac Funk, an early settler of McLean County, played a large role in agriculture. He was also a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives in 1840 and a member of the Illinois State Senate 1862-1864.
Front of Typical I-House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The front of the Isaac Funk home, and I-house, which was built in 1842.
Archaeologists at Noble-Wieting, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Illinois State University students study the remains at the Noble-Wieting archaeological site in 1972, a former Indian mound in McLean County. The site is in Heyworth, Illinois.
A Discourse Concerning Currencies of the British Plantations in America Especially With Regard to their Paper Money
Multi-Page Item | 7 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Discourse concerning the currencies of the British plantations in America, published in London, 1751. The full-text of this document is available at http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rwm3n/webdoc2.html
Rural Schools - Corn Exhibit
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The corn on the desks was exhibited at The County Teachers' Institute on Dec. 17, 1909. The school was in Normal, Illinois.
Stoking Engine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Stoking Engine is fighting the Bloomington Fire of 1900.
Monta' Mower
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Monta mower. Long (48.25) inch wooden T-shaped handle attached to a metal cutting unit by one large bolt. Nine disk-shaped gears are mounted on a horizontal shaft and attached by two brackets, each with a hole for oiling. Each of the nine gears rotates with the shaft by pushing the unit along the ground. Each of the rotating gears has 15 teeth, which engage cutting teeth, wh...
German Day Parade, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A marching band is shown participating in the German Day Parade. The buildings are decorated for the event.
Recovered Indian Corn Fragments
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Fragments of corn recovered from the Grand Village of the Kickapoo in 1972.
Slave Shackles, c. 1850
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Plantation owners and overseers used heavy iron shackles to punish and humiliate defiant slaves, both men and women and especially those who tried to run away. Slaves who had been sold were also shackled while being moved to another location. Arm and leg shackles were the most common type of restraints, but stocks, neck collars, and the ball and chain were also used. This pa...
Natural History Lesson
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The students get a natural history lesson from their teacher using a beaver.
The Chicago Fire
Multi-Page Item | 14 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Chicago Fire, October 8th & 9th, 1871, by Dr. A. Strickland, Chicago, 1872. Includes "a true and graphic account of the most terrible calamity by fire ever known".
Rail Corn Crib
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rail corn cribs like this one, photographed about 1910, were popular forms of early pioneer corn storage.
Asahel Gridley, businessman, McLean County, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Asahel Gridley, McLean County's first millionaire, had much to say about early farming. Gridley is recognized as one of the first citizens to arrive in Bloomington, Illinois. He arrived there in 1831 and played a role in the founding of the first newspaper and telegraph office. He was a prominent businessman, lawyer and a politician. He was also a friend of Abraham Linco...
Land Warrant
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Richard Baldridge used land warrants, similar to this title, to purchase his McLean County farm.
Sailors Harpooning Prairie Hogs
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This satirical cartoon from Prairie Farmer depicts New England sailors harpooning hogs.
Land Surveyor's Notes in McLean County
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)These notes from a federal land surveyor provide the earliest detailed record of McLean County land.
Map, Precincts within Cunningham Township, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Map of Cunningham Township precincts, Urbana, Illinois.
Cahokia Village
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Winter scene at Cahokia from a lithograph by J. S. Wild, published in 1841. Horses roam freely in the Commons. A couple in a sleigh are pulled by a horse. Another couple walks in the snow, the woman keeping her hands warm in a muff, and the man by shoving his hands in his pockets. Two children play in the distance. ...

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