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.
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
Pantagraph Composing Linotype
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A worker composes linotype at Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., about 1900.
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.
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.
International Tapetronics Corporation
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)International Tapetronics Corporation (ITC)'s version of the automated radio station, as used by WFYR Radio in Chicago, about 1974.
Diamond Star Groundbreaking
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The groundbreaking ceremony for Diamond Star Motors factory in Bloomington-Normal on April 16, 1986.
Bloomington Pork Packing Company
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1872, William Van Schoick combined his company with three partners to form the Bloomington Pork Packing Company. The company butchered 15,000 hogs annually, but ultimately failed, due to competition from national producers in the 1890s.
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.
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.
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
CCC corpsmen working on road improvement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
CCC youth enrollees with forman
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
CCC corpsmen at work
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
CCC youth corpsmen in dress uniform
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Cloth Soldier Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The cloth soldier doll has a stiffened felt head with painted brown hair, black eyes, white teeth, and pink cheeks. The doll is costumed in a brown felt cap with a brass button in front. The brown velvet uniform also has brass buttons as well as pocket flaps and a belt with a buckle. The doll comes complete with black velvet shoes and a cloth label that reads, "Made in Engla...
LaSalle Town Sedan 1930
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Men in corn wagons
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Two men in overalls sit in wooden wagons full of corn as horses pull them.
Farmer in field pulled by horses
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer, pulled by two horses, harvests a field before combines were popular. His barn and residence are in the background.
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)there is also another necklace from which several strings of cowrie shells hang down past the base of the carving. The figure holds a drum in his left hand underneath the shells.
Syrian Coin from the Seleucid Empire
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)AR tetradrachm. Roman Imperatorial government by Nero as Augustus (AD 54-68). Regnal year 7 and year 109 of the Caesarian Period
Native American Cradle Board
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Baby cradle board made of pine wood. Curved wood at the top is attached in three places with leather strips. One end is square, the other is scalloped with 6 scallops. Carvings on both sides of scalloped edge of beavers and letters/words?. The underside has a carving of a man with a bow and wavy vertical lines. There are holes in each of the scallops. The handle has diagonal...
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A wooden base holds a pressed glass reservoir which has a square peg at the base to hold it into the wood. The glass is square with rounded shoulders and leads to a narrow mouth which has a threaded tin wick fixture. The wicks channels are splayed as is typical of a camphene lamp and there are wick covers attached by chains.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A cylindrical glass jar with a lid which transforms it into a lamp. The lid has two broad wick holders protruding from one side. A heavy C shaped cover with chain for the wick holders is attached and indicates that this is probably a camphene lamp.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a pig and a donkey. The boys are wearing the attire of well dressed men.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five men in various foolish activities.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A red "japanned" lamp with a saucer base, a circular handle, a tall cone shaped reservoir body and two splayed wick channels as is typical of a camphene lamp.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This canting brass chamber lamp has a double wick.
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A globe-shaped manufactured glass lamp stamped with the words "London lamp". A tin reflector sits behind a single wick holder which is fitted into a tin screw top lid for the glass portion of the lamp.

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