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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Kickapoo Vocabulary; compiled by Milo Custer
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)compiled by Milo Custer on the Kickapoo Reservation, Brown County, Kansas, 1906, from information furnished by Bertha Weeweenas, Minnie Wawawsek (?), John Masquequa, and others. Copied at Bloomington, Illinois, July 21, 1916.". It was compiled by Custer after he visited the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas in 1906.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pantagraph Workers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers sort through files at the Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., about 1900.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pantagraph Composing Linotype
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A worker composes linotype at Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., about 1900.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Enfield and Mackey Cigar Factory
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Five men pose in front of the Enfield and Mackey Cigar Factory, an early 20th century manufacturer operating in Bloomington.
Sona-Mag Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sona-Mag continues to produce tape units such as this one. They also produced electronic equipment for airports.
Moratz Planing Mill Workers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Four workers at the Moratz Planing Mill, about 1915, stand amongst equipment used for cutting and shaping wood.

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