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Plow, Breaking
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wood and wrought iron plow. Long, tapered, and slightly curved wooden beam with "V" shaped handles attached to the back of the beam. Long dished iron blade held in place with a forged iron screw and iron straps. The cutting blade is mounted to the beam and extends downwards to the tip of the blade. 132" long.
Worm Fence
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This zigzag, or worm, fence was common for pioneer fields, although such fencing took up valuable land.
Corn Plant Drawing
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sketch of a corn plant.
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.
Picnic at Funk Farms
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)People gather at Funk Farms for a picnic. Cars are seen in the background.
Concrete Block Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This concrete block barn was built around 1900.
Heafer Tile Company in Bloomington
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Edgar Heafer's tile plant, the Heafer Tile Company, produced many tiles for field drainage.
A.E. Swap's Residence and Business, Weston, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing is of the small store of A.E. Swap in Weston, McLean County.
Beebee's Patent Cure for Balkiness in Horses Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is an ad for a patent to prevent balkiness in horses and mules. Balkiness is an unwillingness of the horse to move forward. Horses sometimes become balky due to physical ailments such as sharp teeth, sore feet, a sore back, badly fitting tack or emotional ailments such as fear or stubbornness.
Silver' Penny, 1863
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The profile of an Indian maiden wearing a headdress, with "United States of America," around the edge, and the date, 1863, underneath.
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.
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.
Capp Blacksmith Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)T.F. Capp owned a blacksmith shop at 303 with Washington where he did horseshoeing and repaired plows.
Pantagraph Book Binding
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers bind books at The Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., about 1900.
F.J. Hoffman Business Receipt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1874, F.J. Hoffman offered his services for "Fancy and Plain Window Dress".
Illinois Tractor Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Illinois Tractor Company in Bloomington promised "the lowest priced tractor in the world.
Bloomington Trunk Factory Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Trunk Factory manufactured trunks, satchels, valises, and traveling bags in Bloomington in the late 1800s.
Higgins Stone Masons
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Stone masons work at the Bloomington firm, Higgins-Jury-Kleinan.
Klemm's Overall Manufacturing Company Workroom
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Klemm's Overall Manufacturing Co. produced overalls in this large sewing workroom with dozens of women at machines.
Moving corn to elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)With a barn in the background, a tractor pulls two wagons of grain to an elevator on the Beehn hog farm in the fall of 1995.
Two young tramps on top of a boxcar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Corn head on John Deere combine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The corn head of a 9600 John Deere combine during the 1995 harvest.
Funk Soybean Processing Mill
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Gene Funk built this soybean processing plant in 1924 in Bloomington, modeled after a mill in Chicago Heights.
18372--Illinois River and Valley from Starved Rock, New State Park, Ill.
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide showing the Illinois River.
Camp Marks, Anacostia Flats
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Plowing Contest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This 1914 plowing contest featured tractors that competed as hundreds of spectators watched.
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...

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