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Corn Sheller Advertisement

Plank Fence

Sona-Mag Advertisement

Moratz Planing Mill Workers

Sellman's Blacksmith Shop Inside

Mitsubishi Stamping

Melcher and Jefferis Stair Building Advertisement

Meyer Brewing Company

Meyer Brewing Company Advertisement

Prairie Breaking

Illinois Central Railroad, Construction

Brown's Corn Planter

Dennis Kenyon Home in the 1970s

1947 Corn Bowl Parade

Corn-Shock Binder

J.J. Ham House and Barn

Corn Crib on Lewis Bohrer Farm

Nelson Jones Home, South of Towanda, Illinois

Testing Seed Germination at Funk Brothers

Cooksville, Illinois, Grain Elevator about 1910

Loading Corn into Wagons

Herding hogs to Chicago

Rear of Typical I-House

Cyclists' Ten Commandments & ID Card

Portable Elevator Company

Enfield and Mackey Cigar Factory

McLean Bicyclists

Ethanol advertisement

Moving corn to elevator

Corn head on John Deere combine

Funk Soybean Processing Mill

Plowing Contest

Land Use on Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 in 1935

1948 Corn Bowl program

Pfister Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade

Leo Miller House

Picnic at Funk Farms

Tilbury Flash' Airplane

Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant

Bloomington Bicycle Club, Illinois

Corn Sheller Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is an ad for a corn sheller, which would provide feed by removing kernels from the cob.
Plank Fence
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This plank fence at the Karr Homestead has a wide range of planks used, and a snake fence with riders or braces in the center.
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.
Sellman's Blacksmith Shop Inside
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Horses stand in waiting as horseshoes hang on the wall inside Ralph with Sellman's blacksmith shop.
Mitsubishi Stamping
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is one of the five press lines in the stamping shop at Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America (MMMA) where coils of steel are stamped into body parts such as doors, hoods, and floor plans.
Melcher and Jefferis Stair Building Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Melcher and Jefferis were local artisans who built custom staircases, like the spiral one in this ad, in the late 19th century.
Meyer Brewing Company
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Meyer Brewing Company, located where Highland Golf Course is today, brewed beer from 1862 until Prohibition closed the business.
Meyer Brewing Company Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Meyer Brewing Company, located where Highland Golf Course is today, brewed beer from 1862 until Prohibition closed the business. This advertisement proclaims, "Not the largest brewery in the world, but the one that spends most money in Bloomington and does things for Bloomington.
Prairie Breaking
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows a yoke of oxen plowing a field.
Illinois Central Railroad, Construction
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The construction of three railroads in the 1850s, including this picture of the Illinois Central Railroad, altered the relationship of the corn farm with the world outside McLean County, Illinois.
Brown's Corn Planter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This example of a corn planter shows how two people were required to work the machinery.
Dennis Kenyon Home in the 1970s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Dennis Kenyon home in the early 1970s.
1947 Corn Bowl Parade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A float from the City of Bloomington depicting a mill wheel travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl Parade.
Corn-Shock Binder
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This illustration shows the tools used in binding corn into shocks.
J.J. Ham House and Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An 1887 view of J.J. Ham's 1873 home south of Hudson.
Corn Crib on Lewis Bohrer Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing of the Lewis Bohrer farm shows a corn crib in the upper right corner.
Nelson Jones Home, South of Towanda, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Nelson Jones home, south of Towanda, was the first of several large Italianate farmhouses built in McLean County.
Testing Seed Germination at Funk Brothers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A man tests seed germination inside a Funk building.
Cooksville, Illinois, Grain Elevator about 1910
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The farmer's grain elevator sits in Cooksville in 1910.
Loading Corn into Wagons
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In a field, corn is loaded into a wagon so it can be transported.
Herding hogs to Chicago
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows farmers herding hogs to Chicago, where they were known to fetch a high price.
Rear of Typical I-House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The rear of the Isaac Funk home, and I-house, which was built in 1842.
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,...
Portable Elevator Company
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A worker at the Portable Elevator Co. pours iron in this 1935 photograph.
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.
McLean Bicyclists
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three young women from McLean, Illinois, are shown with their bicycles.
Ethanol advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This advertisement promoting ethanol sits on the fence outside Leo Miller's farm in McLean County.
Moving corn to elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)With a barn in the background, a tractor pulls two wagons of grain to an elevator on the Beehn hog farm in the fall of 1995.
Corn head on John Deere combine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The corn head of a 9600 John Deere combine during the 1995 harvest.
Funk Soybean Processing Mill
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Gene Funk built this soybean processing plant in 1924 in Bloomington, modeled after a mill in Chicago Heights.
Plowing Contest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This 1914 plowing contest featured tractors that competed as hundreds of spectators watched.
Land Use on Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 in 1935
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing shows how the Adlai E. Stevenson Farm 46 sectioned off farmland for beans, corn, pasture, and oats in 1935. Adlai E. Stevenson was a Democratic Party politician and dipolomat. He was elected Governor of Illinois in 1948 by a larger majority than any other candidate in the history of Illinois. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for President of the United...
1948 Corn Bowl program
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This program for the 1948 Corn Bowl football game in Bloomington pitted the Illinois Wesleyan Titans against the Eastern Illinois Panthers.
Pfister Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Pfister float made of corn cobs travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl parade.
Leo Miller House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This replacement house on the Leo Miller farm was built around the turn of the 20th century.
Picnic at Funk Farms
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)People gather at Funk Farms for a picnic. Cars are seen in the background.
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.
Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Kickapoo used various words in the diagram to identify parts of the corn plant.
Bloomington Bicycle Club, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The members of The Bloomington Bicycle Club are shown with their bicycles.

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