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

Seventh Regiment Military Entertainment and Concert program
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1900 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A program entitled "Seventh Regiment, I. N. G. The 'Fighting Seventh' of Illinois: Military and Entertainment and....Concert" for Admiral Dewey held at the Central Music Hall on May 2, 1900.
Wisconsin Dells Excursion
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A group of McLean County, Illinois, residents take a boat excursion in the Wisconsin Dells.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted figures depicting five children in modes of dress from far-off lands.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five busts of adults floating in a blue background. The slide is cracked in half.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a pig and a donkey. The boys are wearing the attire of well dressed men.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five men in various foolish activities.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted scenes of ships along a coastline. This slide is damaged from exposure to humidity.
Admiral George Dewey souvenir program
Multi-Page Item | 26 pages | 1900 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A program entitled "Souvenir Programme: Reception and Ball tendered to Admiral George Dewey on his visit to Chicago by the Naval Reserve Veterans' Association, first Regiment Armory" in Chicago, Illinois on May 1, 1900.
Native American Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This girl doll is made of buckskin. She is dressed in a tan buckskin dress with fringe at the sides, bottom and sleeves. The dress is decorated with lines of white beads sewn just above the bottom fringe, and lines of red and white beads around the waist, at the neck line, down the tops of the sleeves and at the sleeve openings. There is a leather belt at the waist. The moca...
Cast of 'London Assurance'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This picture shows the male and female cast members of "London Assurance".
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with four scenes of far off places.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene depicting circus performers. On the left is a man training a black horse. On the right are two acrobatic clowns performing stunts with papered hoops.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a fourth figure--a boy--wears a yellow double breasted coat, a round hat and carries an umbrella. A fifth figure, a girl wears a bonnet, a blue scarf and has her hands in her pockets.
Centennial Parade, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A float travels down the street near the west side of the square. The crowds are watching the Centennial Parade, Bloomington, Illinois.
Transparency, lantern slide
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Glass rectangular slide with painting pictures of men riding animals: rabbit, bird, frog rooster
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five handpainted roundels framed in a black background. All of the scenes appear to be of Venice, but the slide is in poor condition.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide depicting four scenes of far off lands. A scene from Asia, Africa and two from Europe.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene of four groups enjoying spring and summer activities: two people flying a kite, a man and his dog setting off on a hunt, two girls picking flowers, a boy chasing butterflies with a net.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five handpainted animal heads in roundels surrounded by a black background. They include: a bulldog, a monkey, a lion, a bear and another dog.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five handpainted animals: a rabbit, a deer, a bear, a wild boar and a fox.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular glass slide with five handpainted figures, all of them appear to be Asian men. A man in the center wears a flat straw hat and holds a sword. On either side of him are men captured in portable stocks who are being dragged or led by a rope. The men who hold the rope are also whipping them, or threatening to whip them.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)children had toy magic lanterns as well.
Circus performers on trapeze
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Trapeze artists fly through the air in Bloomington, Illinois.
Third Battalion Reception and Ball program
Multi-Page Item | 20 pages | 1903 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A program entitled "Souvenir Programme, Reception and Ball give[n] by the Third Battalion, 7th Infantry I.N.G. at Armory" on Saturday evening, Dec. 12, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. This document includes advertisements for military clothing and cigars.
Admiral Dewey ball patronesses and managers list
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1900 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A list of patronesses and managers, possibly for the Admiral Dewey Ball in Chicago, Illinois circa 1900.
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.
Bloomington Bicycle Club, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The members of The Bloomington Bicycle Club are shown with their bicycles.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)the fourth and fifth tell the story of a boy who stole some paint.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular glass slide with four handpainted figures: a jockey riding a bucking rabbit, a man in a top hat, waistcoat and carrying an umbrella riding on a crow, a military man with a sword and tufted helmet riding a frog, and a farmer with a pitchfork riding a rooster.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five scenes of people hunting in roundels framed in black background.
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,...
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.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted figures of men in various occupations: a sailor, a butcher, a baker are included.
Seventh Infantry Illinois National Guard: The Story of the Regiment
Multi-Page Item | 44 pages | 1901 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A program entitled "Seventh Infantry I. N. G.: The Story of the Regiment" published by an Auxiliary Regiment of the Illinois National Guard. This program contains photographs of the members of the Seventh Regiment and a concert held on March 16, 1901.
Admiral of the Navy and Mrs. Dewey ball invitation
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1900 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An invitation from the City of Chicago to Mr. McGuigan "to meet the Admiral of the Navy and Mrs. Dewey" by attending "a Ball to be given at The Auditorium on Monday evening," in Chicago, Illinois on April 30, 1900.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted scenes of winter activities. People are engaged in ice-skating, making snowmen, sleigh-riding.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene which includes a cityscape, a steam engine in the background, people walking in the middle ground and a postman in the foreground.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five handpainted figures one of whom appears to be Santa Claus.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide depicting four dogs in human dress. The background is black and the dogs faces appear in roundels. The dogs are all wearing the headgear of well dressed men.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene of four groups of people enjoying winter activities: two sets of boys having a snowball fight, a girl riding in a sleigh chair across a frozen lake, and an old man smoking a pipe in an icy doorway.

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