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

Professor T.S.C. Lowe observing the Battle of Fair Oaks
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph b/w
Confederate field hospital, Antietam battlefield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Jack wagon
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Carved wooden wagon jack. Painted red. Forged base with two pronged feet and a plate on the side with a cogwheel and a twisted-shank handle. Forged bar inside the jack raises and lowers on the cog wheel mechanism. U shaped bracket swivels on top of the bar. "1855" is scribed on the top bar of the jack.
He's watching you
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 28.4 x 40 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
Second overpass from Champaign on the I-74, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Construction of an overpass over the I-74 in Champaign.
Lincoln School, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Lincoln School, S. State Street, Champaign, First School Site
Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)2400 with Bradley Avenue, Champaign.
S.S. Kresge Building, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)West side of Neil Street, just south of Church Street, Champaign.
Train Station, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Train Station, Champaign, June 30, 1952.
Nigerian Eshu Cult Figure
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a figure of a man, carved from dark wood, standing on a round base. The carved features include bulging eyes, a prominent forehead, and hair that starts on the forehead and extends back into a long point. The cheeks are cut with parallel lines indicating scarification. A necklace of blue glass beads encircles the neck
View Southwest from the First Pylon, Temple of Luxor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide, T 237 from Tour of the World, vol 5 and 6.
John Adams
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)John Adams is shown in his later years. He appears to be holding a cane in his hand.
Chest of drawers, belonging to Mary Todd Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Classic Empire-style chest of drawers. Square feet, four drawers, with wooden knobs. Top drawer overhangs lower drawers. Two modified bun-shaped turning just below overhang on either side, on casters. L 43" x H 40 1/2" x W 19".
Candelabra, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Single-stick girandole candelabra, with marble base, turned bronze pedestal support, three-branched stem. Cast-bronze piece with flowers and pair of turtle dove designs. Pedestal has remnants of burnished design. Triangular star/ snowflake cut glass prisms hang from cast bronze round. In set with LIHO 150 and 152. H 17 1/2" x Base L 5" x W 5".
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.
The downfall of the dictators is assured
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 19.75 x 29.75 in., printed by Thomas Forman Ltd., Nottingham, England.
Back up the fighting forces
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 15 x 20 in., printed for H. M. Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd., London.
We sink the fascist pirates
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 19.75 x 30 in., printed in England by Sanders, Phillips & Co., Ltd.
Over 1,250,000 tons of Axis shipping sunk in the Central Mediterranean
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 19.5 x 30 in., printed by Chromoworks Ltd., London.
Elliston Pintail Drake Decoy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This pintail drake decoy is painted in shades of brown, beige and black. The areas of attachment are visible, the head and two sections of body. The wood is cracked in a few places. There is a lead keel weight on the bottom with "THE ELLISTON DECOY" stamped into it. Dimensions are 17-3/8" l x 6-1/2" h x 5-3/4" with
What Can You Spare That They Can Wear?; Give clothing for war relief
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 22 x 28 in.
Candlestick Lane, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Candlestick Lane, Urbana, Illinois, December 17, 1977.
Urbana High School, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Urbana High School, 1002 South Race Street, Urbana.
Everitt Laboratory, University of Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)University of Illinois Electrical Engineering Building, 1406 W. Green Street, Urbana, with log periodic antenna.
A Kickapoo Vocabulary; compiled by Milo Custer
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)compiled by Milo Custer on the Kickapoo Reservation, Brown County, Kansas, 1906, from information furnished by Bertha Weeweenas, Minnie Wawawsek (?), John Masquequa, and others. Copied at Bloomington, Illinois, July 21, 1916.". It was compiled by Custer after he visited the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas in 1906.
The Great Temple, Abu Simbel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph showing the colossal statues flanking the entrance to the temple. 1857. Francis Frith, the photographer, was a world-wide traveler. He made a series of trips to the Nile region in Egypt from 1856 to 1860.
Panya Ngombe Face Mask
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This triangular wood mask is nearly flat and painted all over with a reddish paint. A narrow band of alternating black and white triangles is painted along the outer edge of the face from eye to eye along the chin. The wide eyes have very narrow slits and bulge out. A long, slightly flaring nose extends down from the raised eyebrows that are painted black. A small raised rec...
Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 14 x 22.1 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
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.
Lamp, whale oil with double reflector
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp is made of pewter. The foot holds a vertical cylindrical reservoir above which are held the typical parallel double wicks of the whale oil lamp. On either side of the wicks are two large pieces of glass meant to magnify the flame.
Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows the business section of Cooksville in 1885.
Lamp, whale oil with reflector
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp has a small rounded reservoir, a handle and the typical double and parallel wick holder. It also has a large glass reflector to broadcast the light.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A pewter lamp with a circular saucer shaped base, a bulbous reservoir and a semicircular handle. The double wick holders are pointed away from one another, characteristic of the camphene lamp.
Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois (detail)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The roof support system has diagonal wind braces, a characteristic that shows a transitional building style as the French culture in the area became "Americanized" following the end of the American Revolution.
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.
Flint kit
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small tin half cylinder with a sliding panel top. Inside the cylinder was stored small pieces of flint wrapped in cotton wadding. At the end of the tin cylinder is attached a steel wheel on which to strike the flint for creating a fire.

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