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

Corn Landscape
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A photograph for a Funk advertisement by James Holbert, one of the main men behind Funk's success. The photo shows a large cornfield in the background and and a farmer with cattle in the foreground. Text on photo reads: Corn. America's contribution to the world's food supply.
Shocked Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This field of shocked corn in McLean County was tied up by farmers for drying purposes during the harvest.
Sellman's Blacksmith Shop Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The building of Ralph with Sellman's blacksmith shop was at 107 S. Madison in Bloomington.
Walton Plow Shop
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Walton Plow Shop manufactured plows and farm implements in downtown Bloomington from 1857 to the 1890s.
Automatic Vacuum Cleaners Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Automatic Vacuum Cleaner Company's failure in the early 1910s was a result of competition from nationally marketed brands.
First Methodist Church of Bloomington
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The former First Methodist Church of Bloomington is shown. The building, built in 1839, is covered with advertisements. Two men can be seen sitting in the open door. The Church had been converted to a livery stable.
Corn Markers Description
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A printed description of the use of a corn marker, along with a drawing of a corn marker.
Harvest Time Sketch
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A harvest scene sketch of a farmer shocking corn, another harvesting it, and bundles of shocked corn scattered throughout the field.
Ed Bowen Harness Shop
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ed Bowen works in his harness shop in Bloomington, surrounded by dozens of animal harnesses.
Sellman's Blacksmith Shop Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ralph with Sellman's blacksmith shop was at 107 S. Madison in Bloomington.
Bloomington Cracker Company Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Cracker Company on East Front Street was also Gerken's Bakery.
Osborn Bakery Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)S.G. Osborn owned a bakery, confectionery, restaurant and oyster saloon at the southwest corner of Center and Grove.
Hungarian Roller Mill
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Hungarian Roller Mill operated on Bloomington's west side from the 1870s to 1912.
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.
Pantagraph Workers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers sort through files at the Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., about 1900.
Bloomington Brush and Trunk Company Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Brush and Trunk Co. was a 19th century manufacturer. They produced brushes of all types -- clothes, stove, shoe, tooth, hair, and paint -- and, in 1877, expanded production to included travelers' trunks and suitcases.
J.C. Garrigus and Son Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)J.C. Garrigus and Son manufactured and repaired harnesses and saddles at their 406 N. Main St. shop from 1889 to 1893.
The National Concrete Block Company
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers for the National Concrete Block Co. construct the foundation for a building.
National Automatic Scale Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The National Automatic Scale Company was located at 215 E. Douglas St. in Bloomington. They specialized in the manufacture of scales for agriculture use.
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.
Pantagraph Composing Linotype
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A worker composes linotype at Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., about 1900.
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.
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.
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.
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 Creamery Co. Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Corn Belt Creamery Company produced butter at 211-17 North Prairie St. in Bloomington.
A Kickapoo Vocabulary; compiled by Milo Custer
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a 5-page document, "A Kickapoo Vocabulary
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.
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.
Man holding cornstalks
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A man dressed in a vest and tie holds up a complete corn plant in each hand, each about 11 feet high.
Diagram of Funk hybrids
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This detailed diagram shows the steps involved in cross corn to make Funk's hybrids.
Corn Palace Sketch
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A sketch of the Bloomington Colliseum turned Corn Palace for the annual Cornfest harvest celebration.
Mary (Rengal) Hartzold
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mary (Rengal) Hartzold of Dry Grove Township, McLean County, Illinois. She was the wife of Henry Hartzold, a farmer.
Funk Brothers Seed Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In order to promote their hybrids, Funk Brothers Seed Company advertised their new products. This ad for 90-day corn ran about 1900.
School Work Corn Exhibit of McLean County
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This boys corn exhibit of McLean County was shown at a Teacher's Institute on December 17, 1909, in Normal, Illinois.
Grain elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer's elevator in Cooksville, Illinois has wooden siding on all sides. A fence leads to this elevator, which has a shingled roof.
Harvesting Corn with Horses
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Piles of corn ears lie on the ground of a harvest row. A team of horses stands at the end of the row of harvested corn and the rest of the unharvested field is on the left.
McLean County Map in Corn Exhibit
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A map of McLean County sits in the middle of a corn school exhibit at a December 17, 1909, Teacher's Institute in Normal, Illinois.

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