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1947 Corn Bowl Parade Pioneers Float

1948 Corn Bowl program

Adjusting belt on combine in October 1995

Shock Frame

Excess corn stored outside elevator

Farmer's Elevator

International Tapetronics Corporation

Iron Arrow Point

James Wilson Jessee

Laying Tile About 1940

Justrite Vacuum Cleaners Advertisement

J.W. Bowles and Company Advertisement

Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant

Funk Brothers Products

Funk's 90-Day Corn Advertisement

German Day, Bloomington, Illinois

Husking Corn By Hand

Illinois Central Railroad, Construction

Harvesting Corn with Horses

Harvest Time Sketch

Mole Ditcher

Moving corn to elevator

Picnic at Funk Farms

Plank Fence

Plowing, about 1917

Ox Shoes

Pantagraph Bindery

Pfister Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade

Loading Corn into Wagons

Major Nolton Engine

Map of timber landscape in McLean County, Illinois

Natural History Lesson

Sanborn Map, Grand Opera House, 1896

Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist

McLean County Map in Corn Exhibit

Metal Corn Bins

Rear of Typical I-House

Sommer Bros. Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade

Sona-Mag Advertisement

Spraying before planting

1947 Corn Bowl Parade Pioneers Float
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A float from Union Auto Insurance, depicting an old covered wagon, pulled by horses, travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl Parade.
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.
Adjusting belt on combine in October 1995
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Darrell Beehn, Jr. adjusts a belt on a John Deere 4400 combine in October 1995.
Shock Frame
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Instructions for how to shock corn, compete with diagrams from Rural Affairs.
Excess corn stored outside elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)When grain elevators and silos were full due to a bumper crop or better technology, excess corn would sometimes be piled on the ground for temporary storage.
Farmer's Elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer's elevator in Cooksville, Illinois, has siding on all sides. A fence leads to the elevator, which has a shingled roof.
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.
Iron Arrow Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The iron point was a trade item obtained from white traders.
James Wilson Jessee
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A veteran of the Civil War, James Wilson Jessee worked as a farmhand after the war.
Laying Tile About 1940
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers lay drainage tile in a trench of a field about 1940.
Justrite Vacuum Cleaners Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Justrite Vacuum Cleaner Company unsuccessfully tried to launch a vacuum cleaner line in the early 20th century.
J.W. Bowles and Company Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)J.with Bowles and Company manufactured the National Kidney and Liver Cure, a popular patent medicine, in Normal, Illinois.
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.
Funk Brothers Products
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows a range of Funk Brothers seed products.
Funk's 90-Day Corn Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This ad for Funk's 90-Day Corn provides photos and descriptions of the company's high yielding corn.
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.
Husking Corn By Hand
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A migrant worker husks corn by hand in a cornfield in McLean County about 1910.
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.
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.
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.
Mole Ditcher
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The mole ditcher was an iron-tipped log, series of logs, or round iron blade (such as seen here) about four inches in diameter, which was pulled through the soil a few inches under the surface.
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.
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.
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.
Plowing, about 1917
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A team of horses plows sod in McLean County about 1917.
Ox Shoes
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ox shoes, such as these, were used to protect oxen hooves when they plowed up prairie land.
Pantagraph Bindery
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows The Book Bindery of The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. The Pantagraph newspaper first published in 1837. It was two years older than the Chicago Tribune, and was a well-respected newspaper. There were many newspapers published in McLean County, many of them in Bloomington and Normal.
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.
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.
Major Nolton Engine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A number of men surround the C&A "Major Nolton" Engine. The engine went to Chicago to fight the Great Fire in 1871, and it became nationally known because it reached Chicago in such short time to help fight the fire.
Map of timber landscape in McLean County, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Before McLean County was settled by whites in 1822, eleven percent of McLean County was timber and the remainder was tall prairie grass, as shown in this map.
Natural History Lesson
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The students get a natural history lesson from their teacher using a beaver.
Sanborn Map, Grand Opera House, 1896
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of the Grand Opera House in McLean County, Illinois, 1896. The Opera House is located next to the A. Brockaw (alternate spelling: Brokaw) Plow Factory.
Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This masthead is from an anti-monopolist newspaper briefly published in Saybrook.
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.
Metal Corn Bins
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Metal corn bins for the Ever-Normal Granary store corn of a Funk's hybrid.
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.
Sommer Bros. Float in 1947 Corn Bowl Parade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Sommer Bros. Seed Co. float travels in the 1947 Corn Bowl parade.
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.
Spraying before planting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)McLean County Farm Service uses machinery to spray herbicide on land farmed by Murphy Farms in the spring of 1995.