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

Field of Shocked Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A field of shocked corn in McLean County shows how farmers prepared for the harvest.
Farmers inspecting corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three farmers in hats wear pouches around their necks while inspecting Funk's corn.
Corn Belt Bank, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Corn Belt Bank building in downtown Bloomington is six stories high, one of the tallest in the city. A horse and carriage wait on the street outside.
Corn Exhibit Photograph
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A photo of the 'Just Corn: The Amaizing Story' exhibit inside the McLean County Museum of History in 1997. Panels of related photos and logos of seed companies are shown.
Bric-a-brac (Small-handled cup featuring image of Lincoln Home)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)uneven scalloped border has gilt, as does front half of handle. Peach irridescence surrounds scene on front half. Back half is white with gilt smears. H 7.2 Diameter with handle 8 cm.
Bust of Abraham Lincoln by James J. Nance, 1994
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)torso sculpted to resemble jacket, vest, shirt and tie. Bronze tinted in varying shades. Raised letters, "'Immortal Conscience'/President Abraham Lincoln". Base: "Sculptor/James J. Nance". Numbered 3/100. H 66.04 W 45.72 D 22.86 cm.
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.
Commemorative coin, Lincoln with railsplitter image
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Copper-coated medal of Abraham Lincoln with railsplitter image. Beardless Lincoln looks left with motto around rim "The President of the U.S. 1861" & "Copyright Secured" on bottom. Reverse has tall man splitting log in front of rail fence, with cabin & setting sun in background, "The Railsplitter of 1830" around rim. Diam. 1 1/2" x H 1/16".
Stickpin, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)setting has four molded roses and thistles on outer edge, rope around stone is braid of human hair, set under glass. Long sticker/ pin is twisted in middle. L 3" x W 5/8".
Pantagraph Composing Linotype
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A worker composes linotype at Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., about 1900.
Action! Men of 18 and 19, choose your combat branch
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 25 x 38 in., published by the United States Government Printing Office
Watch Chain from Early/Mid-Victorian Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Choker-type chain made out of brown braided hair. Has brass hook and clasp at ends, and a mother-of-pear and brass piece in the middle. Brass pieces are heavily decorated. L 14 1/2".
Bust of poet Robert Burns
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)wavy hair, combed forward. Marked "Burns, mark C 107". H 8".
Fort de Chartres Building, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Buildings within the fort complex have been reconstructed in outline.
J.W. Bowles and Company Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)J.with Bowles and Company manufactured the National Kidney and Liver Cure, a popular patent medicine, in Normal, Illinois.
Haldeman Marble Work Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Haldeman Marble Work shop, established in 1851, was located at 223 E. Front Street in Bloomington.
R.R. Thompson and Son Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The R.R. Thompson and Son Company was an early Bloomington mattress and furniture factory.
End table, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Lamp table with removable marble top on walnut turned pedestal. Pedestal does not reach to the ground, and is supported by four incurved cut-out legs with ceramic castors connected to the center pedestal. Brace is stenciled with black ink on top "Nutt & Barkley Springfield, ILL." L 30" x W 21 1/2".
Trundle toy, made by Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wheeled cart with solid axles. Main body is rectangular block. Two thin boards run perpendicular on top and bottom of block with short pivots. Wheels screw to pivots. In center top, thin board also runs perpendicular, with two knobs on ends. Under one knob is a short pivoting lever. Center body covered with thin leather or paper. All lacquered. Large hole drilled in front. L...
Rocking chair, belonged to Pickarel family (friends of Abraham Lincoln)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black horsehair-upholstered rocking chair with partially upholstered arms. Back curved, ending in slight scroll. Arms curve around to front and back, up to underside of arms, with fleur de lis and curved design. Bottom edge of front seat rail has molded rim, back legs bowed slightly to rocker, front less so. H 39" x W 20" x D 19".
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hitchcock-style chair with rush seat. Black with gold lines and stenciling. Top rail has stenciled tulip, middle rail has stenciled grapes, knees have stenciled leaf. Turned bulbous stretcher in front, two stretchers side, one in back. L 34" x W 18" x D 14".
Arctic Ice Company Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Arctic Ice Company was one of several local manufacturing companies in Bloomington, Illinois, which ultimately failed.
Letter from A.S. Coe to Samuel A. Jones
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letter from A.S. Coe to Samuel A. Jones dated September 29th, 1863 describing the battle of Gettysburg. Samuel A. Jones was a homeopathic physician and scholar of American Transcendentalism. He served as a Civil War surgeon.
Spittoon, typical of earthenware ceramics available to Abraham Lincoln in midwestern Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Basic circular shape spittoon, with 12 ribs, pinched waist around outside, top sloped downward and into round opening 6.5 cm in diameter. Finish is Bennington-style, brown, gold, and cream speckled. Drain opening near top rim, some crazing, chips of finish out of rim. Diam. 14 1/4" x H 6 5/8".
Drapery fragment, from Lincoln family home
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drapery panel of woven damask material in a vertical floral pattern. Wool and silk. Predominate color burgundy red. Other colors inclucde silver, two shades of gold. Four tears along edges and fourteen holes of varying sizes. L 50 7/8" x W 22 3/8".
Price Jones 1914 Tile Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This tile barn was built by Price Jones in 1914 to house feeder cattle. It is located near Towanda.
Flask, Powder
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Brown leather tear-drop shaped flask with a brass nozzle and powder measure built in. Spring-loaded lever opens the base, then the flask. Raised picture of a dog (a retriever) under a tree is on both sides of the body. Flask has a wire loop on the bottom for a strap.
Corn Palace at the Bloomington Cornfest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Corn Palace was the center of the 1915 Bloomington Cornfest. This photo was taken at night.
Soybean Varieties Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This Funk Brothers Seed Company advertisement show different varieties of soybeans.
Life Magazine Illustration of McLean County Hogs
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The caption from this Life Magazine photo of McLean County hogs reads, "Fat-sated hogs on Illinois farm wallow in thick carpet of shelled corn. Farmers prefer to waste corn on livestock rather than sell at ceiling prices.
King Corn from 1916 Corn Show
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This cartoon shows how locals felt about the Bloomington Cornfest, depicting a man as King Corn.
Ruins of the Pinckney Mansion, Charleston
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of the ruins of the Pinckney Mansion in Charleston, South Carolina. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. Ne...
Women's spring hats
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing, color, pen and ink
Ruins in Columbia, S. C. No. 2
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Reproduction of a black and white photograph of the ruins in Columbia, S. C. No. 2. Source: Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. New York, 1866. Dimensions: 8"x...
Railroad porters, Chicago and North Western Railway
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w

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