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Stoking Engine

Stump and Coons Business Receipt

Wreckage of the Bloomington Fire

Youngsters with corn

Testing Seed Germination at Funk Brothers

Trapeze artists, Mary & Roy Valentine with Reiner

Dennis Kenyon Home in the 1970s

Cartoonist View of Tractor Contest

Detasselers During World War II

D.L. White Farmhouse and English Barn

Concrete Block Barn

Cooking class, Bloomington High School, Illinois

Corn Belt Bank, Bloomington, Illinois

Cornbelt Bank Building, Bloomington, Illinois (detail)

Cornbelt Cube

Corn Crib on Lewis Bohrer Farm

Corn Dollar Inside 1916 Corn Palace

Corn Dryers

Corn Exhibit Photograph

Corn head on John Deere combine

Corn Knife

Corn Plant Drawing

Dumping corn into pit before drying

Ear of corn close-up

Chinch Bug Barriers

Lenze's Tinsmith Shop Advertisement

Madison' Projectile Points

Maize Illustration

Man holding cornstalks

Map, McLean County Railroads in 1860

Map, McLean County Railroads in 1900

Map of Funk Farms, McLean County, Illinois

Marking Cornfield

Mary (Rengal) Hartzold

Pantagraph Composing Room

Pantagraph Workers

Life Magazine Illustration of McLean County Hogs

Mature corn near Shirley

McLean Bicyclists

McLean County, Illinois, Street Scene

Stoking Engine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Stoking Engine is fighting the Bloomington Fire of 1900.
Stump and Coons Business Receipt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1873, Stump & Coons offered their services for horseshoeing and jobbing.
Wreckage of the Bloomington Fire
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The damaged Bloomington skyline is visible beyond the courthouse square. A streetcar and a crowd of people are visible in the foreground. June 19, 1900, much of the center of Bloomington was destroyed by a fire that started in the Model Laundry. Flames spread rapidly and destroyed many buildings in a four square block area of the city. No businesses failed because of the fir...
Youngsters with corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three young children sit amongst corn piled on the sidewalk, spilling out of a basket, and housed in two crates.
Testing Seed Germination at Funk Brothers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A man tests seed germination inside a Funk building.
Trapeze artists, Mary & Roy Valentine with Reiner
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Valentines and Reiner pose for a publicity photograph. They were famous trapeze artists.
Dennis Kenyon Home in the 1970s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Dennis Kenyon home in the early 1970s.
Cartoonist View of Tractor Contest
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This cartoon depicts a 1916 tractor contest and demonstration.
Detasselers During World War II
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A group of female detasselers during World War II at Funk's farm including Gretchen Gottschalk, Barbara Benjamin, Marcella Pierson, unknown, Bessie Gottschalk, Phyllis Bender, Mary Johnston, Betty Belle Alverson, Isabel Gottschalk, Barbara Zook, Louise Gottschalk, May Johnson, and Alice Johnston.
D.L. White Farmhouse and English Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The D.L. White farmhouse is a central hall I-House.
Concrete Block Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This concrete block barn was built around 1900.
Cooking class, Bloomington High School, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Girls practice their cooking skills in cooking class at Bloomington High School, Illinois.
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.
Cornbelt Bank Building, Bloomington, Illinois (detail)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)After the great Bloomington fire of 1900, the Cornbelt Bank was rebuilt and featured corn ears on the pilaster capitals.
Cornbelt Cube
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This home, constructed around the turn of the 20th century, is called a Cornbelt Cube, or American Foursquare, because of its shape.
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.
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.
Corn Dryers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Corn is suspended from the ceiling for drying purposes.
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.
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.
Corn Knife
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The corn knife, about 18 inches long, was often hammered from available scrap metal.
Corn Plant Drawing
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sketch of a corn plant.
Dumping corn into pit before drying
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Al Bateman dumps havested grain from his truck into a pit before drying.
Ear of corn close-up
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A closeup of an ear of corn still in its husk, tasseled, on the stalk of the plant.
Chinch Bug Barriers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This farmer with his tractor erected barriers in his fields to prevent chinch bugs from destroying crops.
Lenze's Tinsmith Shop Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Emil Lenze manufactured tin, copper, and sheet iron ware, often for use in roofing and spouting in Bloomington.
Madison' Projectile Points
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Four small to medium-sized thin triangular arrowheads. The points are usually like isosceles triangles in shape, or more rarely, equilateral triangles.
Maize Illustration
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The first illustration of maize in the herbals from De Historia Stirpium of Leonhard Fuchs.
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.
Map, McLean County Railroads in 1860
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This map shows the path of railroads through McLean County in 1860.
Map, McLean County Railroads in 1900
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a map of McLean County railroads and grain elevators in 1900.
Map of Funk Farms, McLean County, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This map shows the location of all the Funk Farms in McLean County.
Marking Cornfield
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing of a hand-held planter shows a farmer planting in evenly-marked spaces.
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.
Pantagraph Composing Room
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Composing Room of The Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Company, Bloomington, Illinois, is detailed in this photo.
Pantagraph Workers
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Workers sort through files at the Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co., about 1900.
Life Magazine Illustration of McLean County Hogs
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The caption from this Life Magazine photo of McLean County hogs reads, "Fat-sated hogs on Illinois farm wallow in thick carpet of shelled corn. Farmers prefer to waste corn on livestock rather than sell at ceiling prices.
Mature corn near Shirley
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This mature cornfield is on the Funk Trust Farm near Shirley, Illinois, in September 1995.
McLean Bicyclists
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three young women from McLean, Illinois, are shown with their bicycles.
McLean County, Illinois, Street Scene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows winter in McLean County, Illinois.