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

Graves Mallard Hen Decoy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a lead keel weight on the bottom reads "B GRAVES DECOY". The body is painted various shades of brown with a dark patch on the wings. The head is turned back with the beak resting on its back. Dimensions are 14" l x 7-1/2" h x 5-1/2" with The mate is LVM1994.006.001.
Painting: Untitled (Illinois River)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A painting of an autumnal view of the Illinois River as seen from a grassy bluff in the Prospect Avenue area of Peoria, with the river in the background, three tall trees extending beyond the picture frame in the near right foreground. Dimensions are 25-1/4" x 33-1/2".
Schoenheider Standing Mallard Drake Ice Decoy
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A standing mallard duck ice decoy with a painted two part body, glass eyes and supported by a single iron leg with splayed foot. The head is green with a long yellow beak, the body is painted brown with PEORIA CS stencilled on the bottom in black paint. The wood is cypress or white pine. Dimensions are 13-1/4" h x 5-5/8" with The length from tail to tip of beak is 18".
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 14
Image | 1859 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)
Peoria Public Library
Image | 1910 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPeoria Public Library, Peoria, Ill.
Allen's new atlas of the city and vicinity of Peoria, Ills.
Multi-Page Item | 96 pages | 1893 | Historic Illinois County AtlasesAllen's new atlas of the city and vicinity of Peoria, Ills.
Letter from Mr. I Carr to Jonathan Baldwin Turner, January 5, 1854
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1854 | Jonathan Baldwin Turner Papers (Digitized Content)Letter inviting Jonathan Baldwin Turner to give a lecture at the Men's Christian Association.
Insurance maps of Peoria, Illinois, Volume 1, 1902
Multi-Page Item | 88 pages | 1902 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1902
Insurance maps of Peoria, Illinois, 1891
Multi-Page Item | 77 pages | 1891 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1891
Peoria Public Library
Image | 1914 | Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard CollectionPeoria. Bradley Polytechnic Institute. Public Library.
Atlas map of Peoria County, Illinois
Multi-Page Item | 152 pages | 1873 | Historic Illinois County AtlasesAtlas map of Peoria County, Illinois
French Trade Bucket Bale/Ear
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The diameter of the rim is 12.2 cm. The height of the bale ears is 5.7 cm. The bucket bale is made of iron. The bale ears are welded to the rim. The lower portion of the bucket would have been made out of metal, probably sheet copper or brass. Bucket bales or kettles usually nested for compact shipping.
Insurance maps of Peoria, Illinois, Volume 1, June 1917, sheets 93-104
Multi-Page Item | 12 pages | 1917 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1917
Insurance maps of Peoria, Illinois, Jan. 1920, sheets 183-185
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | 1920 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1920
Peoria, Ill., block line map of central business district
Image | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Insurance maps of Peoria, Illinois, Volume 2, Aug. 1917, sheets 181-182
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1917 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1917
Allen's New atlas of the city and vicinity of Peoria, Ills., compiled from plats on records and official surveys
Multi-Page Item | 68 pages | 1888 | Historic Illinois County AtlasesAllen's New atlas of the city and vicinity of Peoria, Ills., compiled from plats on records and official surveys
Extract from Settle of W.H. Powell to B. Murray Dated Peoria February 12, 1850, February 12, 1856
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1856 | Jonathan Baldwin Turner Papers (Digitized Content)In this note to Bronson Murray, Turner recites W.H. Powell's thoughts on Turner and his political efforts. "Our American civilization demands a more [] and liberal system. We must educate the whole people as the only enduring foundation upon which our republican Instutituions can rest." At the bottom of the letter, Turner writes, "Mr. Powell states in this letter to me that ...
Journal of the Grand Encampment of Illinois Seventh Session
Multi-Page Item | 16 pages | 1857 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A pamphlet entitled "Journal of the Grand Encampment of Illinois. Seventh Session" and "Held at the city of Peoria, October 15th, 1856." This pamphlet was created by the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows and printed by Bailhache & Parks in Alton, Illinois in 1857.
I. O. of Good Templars circular
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1858 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A circular entitled "I. O. of G. T. [Good Templars]" from the "Office of the Grand Worthy Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Illinois" in which Secretary A. S. Norton provides the Quarter password for May and June meetings in Peoria, Illinois. This circular is dated March 25, 1858.
May, Emmet C. (Emmet Claire), b. 1875
Image | John Starr Stewart Ex Libris CollectionPrinted in black and red. Naked man with clown's ruff, buttons and lipstick reclines against frame and reads a large book by the light of a candle in tall holder
Graves Mallard Drake Decoy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a lead keel weight on the bottom reads "B GRAVES DECOY CO". The decoy has a green head with a yellow-green beak, a white ring around the neck and a brown chest. Dimensions are 17" l x 8" h x 5-3/4" with The mate is LVM1994.006.002.
Meserve Lincoln Photograph No. 15
Image | 1859 | Frederick Hill Meserve Selected Photographs (Digitized Content)

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