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

1948 Corn Bowl program
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This program for the 1948 Corn Bowl football game in Bloomington pitted the Illinois Wesleyan Titans against the Eastern Illinois Panthers.
Pfister Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Pfister float made of corn cobs travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl parade.
Leo Miller House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This replacement house on the Leo Miller farm was built around the turn of the 20th century.
Illinois Central Railroad, Construction
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The construction of three railroads in the 1850s, including this picture of the Illinois Central Railroad, altered the relationship of the corn farm with the world outside McLean County, Illinois.
Brown's Corn Planter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This example of a corn planter shows how two people were required to work the machinery.
Dennis Kenyon Home in the 1970s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Dennis Kenyon home in the early 1970s.
Detasselers During World War II
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A group of female detasselers during World War II at Funk's farm including Gretchen Gottschalk, Barbara Benjamin, Marcella Pierson, unknown, Bessie Gottschalk, Phyllis Bender, Mary Johnston, Betty Belle Alverson, Isabel Gottschalk, Barbara Zook, Louise Gottschalk, May Johnson, and Alice Johnston.
Flat Bottom Drain Tile
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drain tile was made of clay and used for drainage of fields. It has a flat bottom and is 2-4 inches in diameter.
Corn-Shock Binder
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This illustration shows the tools used in binding corn into shocks.
Voyageur holding paddle
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington of a voyageur holding his paddle, which is almost as tall as he is. His other hand is hooked onto his braided sash, which typically held pipes, pouches of tobacco, and other supplies. A vest, leather footgear, and a jaunty cap with a tassel complete his outfit.
Griesheim's Advertisement for Cornfest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Griesheim's clothing store runs an ad for the Bloomington Cornfest.
Sanborn Map, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of Urbana, Illinois. Shows the area bordered by Broad on the west side and S. Race on the east side. Includes the Columbian Hotel.
Sanborn Map, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of Urbana, Illinois. Shows area bordered by Broad on the west side and S. Race on the east side. Includes the Columbia Hotel.
German Day, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The streets of Bloomington, Illinois, are shown decorated for German Day. By 1870, 13% of the population of Bloomington was of German descent or born in Germany. The Germans in Bloomington held their own cultural events and had their own organizations. The Germans living in Bloomington had their own schools and churches, as well as their own German-language newspaper.
C&A Shops, Locomotive
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A locomotive sits in the C&A shops in Bloomington, Illinois. C&A (Chicago and Alton) shops were the largest employer in McLean County. There, the first Pullman sleeper, the first commerical dining car, and the first reclining chair car were made.
T'day's Farmer
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)T'day's Farmer by Kin Hubbard from Back Country Folks, a year's accumulation of the philosophy and sketches of Abe Martin and others of Brown County, Indiana.
1947 Corn Bowl Parade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A float from the City of Bloomington depicting a mill wheel travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl Parade.
Chert Hoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This chert hoe was used by Woodland Indians for farming. Woodland Indians grew corn, beans and squash, and hunted buffalo and deer. Chert is a very fine grained rock which can be shaped into arrowheads and points by chipping.
J.J. Ham House and Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An 1887 view of J.J. Ham's 1873 home south of Hudson.
Corn Crib on Lewis Bohrer Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing of the Lewis Bohrer farm shows a corn crib in the upper right corner.
Nelson Jones Home, South of Towanda, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Nelson Jones home, south of Towanda, was the first of several large Italianate farmhouses built in McLean County.
Testing Seed Germination at Funk Brothers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A man tests seed germination inside a Funk building.
Cooksville, Illinois, Grain Elevator about 1910
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The farmer's grain elevator sits in Cooksville in 1910.
Prairie Breaking
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows a yoke of oxen plowing a field.
Rear of Typical I-House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The rear of the Isaac Funk home, and I-house, which was built in 1842.
Cyclists' Ten Commandments & ID Card
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The ID card and Ten Commandments contain personal information about Lyman R. Tay. Interpretation Text includes: Copyright 1897 "THE CYCLIST'S TEN COMMANDMENTS" Thus spoke the wheel: I am thy friend in need, thy friend indeed. Thou shalt have no other wheel but me . . . Thou shalt not take me in rain, nor on the wrong path. Remember the road to keep it wholly,...
Richard M. Britt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Richard M. Britt was an early farmer in Mount Hope Township in McLean County.
Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Kickapoo used various words in the diagram to identify parts of the corn plant.
Bloomington Bicycle Club, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The members of The Bloomington Bicycle Club are shown with their bicycles.
Interior of a Pullman Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Pullman dining car is decorated with elaborate furniture, curtains and carpeting.
Sanborn Map, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of Urbana, Illinois. Shows area north of Main and south of with Water.
Sanborn Map, McLean County Court House, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of the McLean County, Illinois Court House, 1892.
McLean Bicyclists
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three young women from McLean, Illinois, are shown with their bicycles.
Wooden Pitchfork
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This type of wooden pitchfork was commonly used on farms throughout McLean County, Illinois.
Projectile Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This projectile point is dark in color. It is slightly notched near the base. It was used by Woodland Indians for hunting.
Mussel Shell Hoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This mussel shell hoe was used in the cultivation of corn, beans and squash by the Mississippian Indians.
Scissors
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)These iron scissors were manufactured by white settlers and traded with the Kickapoo.
Tilbury Flash' Airplane
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The "Tilbury Flash" is shown on the grounds of the Bloomington Airport, Illinois. It was a small racing airplane, with an 18-foot wing span and a motorcycle engine. It hangs from the ceiling at the McLean County Musuem of History.
Farm 46 in 1997
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo of a cornfield on Farm 46 near Heyworth in 1997 shows the difference in crop production today from that in the 1930s.
Naffziger Round Tile Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This circular tile sided barn was built by William Naffziger in 1916 in Mount Hope Township, McLean County.

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