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

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Plowing Contest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This 1914 plowing contest featured tractors that competed as hundreds of spectators watched.
Griesheim's Advertisement for Cornfest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Griesheim's clothing store runs an ad for the Bloomington Cornfest.
Corn Palace Sign
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sign identifies the Corn Palace, the center of activity at Bloomington's annual corn festival.
Race Track, Champaign County Fair, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Race Track, Champaign County Fair, July 31, 1940.
Patriotic ribbon
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Patriotic ribbon in red, white, and blue. Bow at the top with one white, red, and blue streamer. Red streamer has the following inscription: "July 4th 1908, Daisy Hickman, Gifford, '08".
Print, Photographic (threshing scene)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Threshing scene on the Allen Grant Little farm, Hensley Township, Champaign County, Illinois. Right to left, Allen Grant Little and son Harvey. Charles V. True Jr. (no hat), Wylie True, and Kirker True. A steam thresher hooked to a blower stands in the foreground, on the right-hand side is a single horse buggy next to a wagon. Harvey Little carries a water jug.
Champaign County Fair
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Midway, Champaign County Fair, 1978.
Halloween, Main Street, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Main Street, Urbana.
Shirley Corn and Horse Show
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The entrance to the main tent at the 1912 Shirley Corn and Horse Show was decorated with cornstalks. Hundreds came to celebrate the corn harvest.
Corn Blotter Advertisement from 1916 Corn Show
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A blotter from the 1916 Bloomington Cornfest advertises the Corn Palace.
Barn Raising
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)McLean County, Illinois, men pose for a picture during a barn raising.
Independence Day, 1918
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph, #15938, showing American soldiers and spectators at an Independence Day ball game in London, England, July 4, 1918. Originally released by the Committee for Public Information September 9, 1918.
Candlestick Lane, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Candlestick Lane, Urbana, Illinois, December 17, 1977.
Corn Palace at the Bloomington Cornfest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Corn Palace was the center of the 1915 Bloomington Cornfest. This photo was taken at night.
Cornbelt Exposition Sign
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sign advertises for the Bloomington Corn Exposition Oct. 16-21, 1939.
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.
Corn Celebration Preparation
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In downtown Bloomington, an archway of straw bales marks the entrance to tents set up for the annual Cornfest. The Corn Palace is in the background.
Inside the Shirley Corn Show Tent
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Six women sit atop the stage inside the tent at the Shirley Corn Show. Cornstalks don the stage for decoration.
Corn Design on Float
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A close-up look at a unique design made of corn on a float in the Bloomington Cornfest parade.
Corn Dollar Inside 1916 Corn Palace
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The interior of the 1916 Bloomington Corn Palace shows the giant corn dollar on display amongst ears of corn.
Halloween, Main Street, Urbana, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Main Street, Urbana.
Native American Bandolier Bag
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A bandolier bag is a large pouch with a long continuous strap. This one is made of deerskin. The panel between the strap and pouch is covered with black velvet. Along the bottom edge are wool yarn tassels and loops of beads. The entire bag is covered with beaded decoration in bold floral and foliate designs. The flowers on the pouch are worked in red and blue flowers with gr...

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