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Corn Knife

Concrete Block Machine

Heavy Plow

Merna Grain Elevator 1997

Champaign County Plat Book

Three Liberty Dimes

Winged Liberty Head Dime

Two Nickels, Obverse and Reverse: no date

James R. Holbert

Melvin and Ada Hendricks

Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s

Cartoonist View of Tractor Contest

P.M. Stubblefield Homestead in 1887

Hupmobile 1938

Franklin Four-Door Sedan 1922

Cultivating Corn

Yellow Dent Corn

Husking Hook

Chicago Stock Yards

Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist

Mole Ditcher

Horse Drawn Corn Picker

Corn Dryers

Murphy Farms in winter

Tile Barn Remains

LaSalle Town Sedan 1930

Cultivating Corn with Horses

Cattle Crossing Broken Fence

James Wilson Jessee

Corn Palace Sketch

John F. Kennedy Half-Dollar, 1964

State Capital, Boston

Model A Ford Carburetor

8 Drawer Cabinet

Screwdriver

Funk Brothers Seed Advertisement

Diagram of Funk hybrids

Man holding cornstalks

Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model

Women's beachwear

Corn Knife
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The corn knife, about 18 inches long, was often hammered from available scrap metal.
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.
Heavy Plow
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows a heavy prairie-breaking plow used in early McLean County.
Merna Grain Elevator 1997
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This Merna grain elevator, photographed in 1997, is no longer in operation.
Champaign County Plat Book
Multi-Page Item | 7 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)1930 Champaign County Plat Book
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.
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.
Cartoonist View of Tractor Contest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This cartoon depicts a 1916 tractor contest and demonstration.
P.M. Stubblefield Homestead in 1887
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Phineas M. Stubblefield built this farm and home in 1887.
Hupmobile 1938
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Franklin Four-Door Sedan 1922
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing for an advertisement
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.
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.
Corn Dryers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Corn is suspended from the ceiling for drying purposes.
Murphy Farms in winter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)During the winter months, snow covers the topsoil of cornfields with dead cornstalks, exposed here at Murphy Farms near Shirley.
Tile Barn Remains
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The remains of this round tile barn include the walls. It is located north of Normal, Illinois.
LaSalle Town Sedan 1930
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Cultivating Corn with Horses
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer cultivates a field of corn with a team of two horses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
State Capital, Boston
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The elegant State House, seat of Massachusetts government was designed by self-taught architect, Charles Bulfinch.
Model A Ford Carburetor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a cast iron, two piece carburetor with a gasket between the parts. Details include a choke paddle one end and an in and out switch on the other. The paddle has an open and close switch.
8 Drawer Cabinet
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is an 8 drawer cabinet made using horseshoe nail boxes as drawers. The drawers are furnished with white porcelain 1" diameter drawer pulls held with a bolt and nut. There is no back to the cabinet.
Screwdriver
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hand made screwdriver with 5" oval handle. Painted black with a twisted head. 13" long.
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.
Diagram of Funk hybrids
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This detailed diagram shows the steps involved in cross corn to make Funk's hybrids.
Man holding cornstalks
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A man dressed in a vest and tie holds up a complete corn plant in each hand, each about 11 feet high.
Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Museum and Santa Fe Railroad exhibit consists of 1,200 feet of track running through a 3,000 square-foot landscape representing, the Great Plains, the Arizona desert and Grand Canyon, and California. Sprawled across the model landscape are a suburban village, an elevated highway, a commercial grain elevator, a cement factory, an oil field and refinery, an orange grove, a...
Women's beachwear
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w

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