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Tile Work in Lexington about 1888

School Work Corn Exhibit of McLean County

Shirley Corn and Horse Show

Single Row Corn Picker about 1935

Slatted Corn Crib bins

Cyclists' Ten Commandments & ID Card

C&A Shops, Locomotive

Chicago Stock Yards

Combining corn

Enfield and Mackey Cigar Factory

Farm 46 in 1997

Concrete Block Machine

Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s

Corn Mortar

Corn Sheller Advertisement

Bloomington Fire Company, Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington Pork Packing Company

Loading seed into corn planter

Low Density Corn Planting

Marion's Hired Hand

Market Street School

Pantagraph Letterhead

Portable Elevator Company

Maxwell, Batchelder and Co. Business Receipt

Melcher and Jefferis Stair Building Advertisement

Melvin and Ada Hendricks

Metal Wheeled Tractor

Rosencrans School, interior

Sanborn Map, Grand Opera House, 1892

Sanborn Map, McLean County Court House, Bloomington, Illinois

Sanborn Map, McLean County Court House, Bloomington, Illinois

Nelson Jones Home, South of Towanda, Illinois

Osborn Bakery Advertisement

Oxen on Turn-of-the-Century Farm

Price Jones 1914 Tile Barn

Trimmed Hedge in Old Town Township

Tryner and Richardson Cigar Factory

Twelve-horse Hitch

Murphy Farms in winter

Tile Work in Lexington about 1888
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This tile factory of Bartels and Stell was located in Lexington in 1888.
School Work Corn Exhibit of McLean County
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This boys corn exhibit of McLean County was shown at a Teacher's Institute on December 17, 1909, in Normal, Illinois.
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.
Single Row Corn Picker about 1935
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A single row corn picker machine helps harvest the crop in a McLean County field about 1935.
Slatted Corn Crib bins
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bins at either side of corn cribs were designed to hold ear corn.
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,...
C&A Shops, Locomotive
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A locomotive sits in the C&A shops in Bloomington, Illinois. C&A (Chicago and Alton) shops were the largest employer in McLean County. There, the first Pullman sleeper, the first commerical dining car, and the first reclining chair car were made.
Chicago Stock Yards
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Cattle are stored in pens at the Chicago stock yards.
Combining corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In a John Deere 4400 combine, Darrell Beehn harvests corn near Shirley, Illinois, in September 1995.
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.
Farm 46 in 1997
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo of a cornfield on Farm 46 near Heyworth in 1997 shows the difference in crop production today from that in the 1930s.
Concrete Block Machine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Concrete block machines like this one were available to make one's own blocks such as the one on the bottom left.
Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows the business section of Cooksville in 1885.
Corn Mortar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This corn mortar was used by early McLean County settler John Moore for pounding corn.
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.
Bloomington Fire Company, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photograph shows the Bloomington Fire Company with its equipment. Downtown Bloomington, Illinois, can be seen in the background.
Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The photo shows South Center Street in Bloomington, Illinois, around 1857. Shops, sidewalks, livestock, etc. are all visible.
Bloomington Pork Packing Company
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1872, William Van Schoick combined his company with three partners to form the Bloomington Pork Packing Company. The company butchered 15,000 hogs annually, but ultimately failed, due to competition from national producers in the 1890s.
Loading seed into corn planter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Darrell Beehn Jr. loads Pioneer seed into an International 400 Cycle planter near Shirley, Illinois. Darrell Beehn Sr. stands beside the planter.
Low Density Corn Planting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer walks a cornfield of low density corn in eastern McLean County about 1920.
Marion's Hired Hand
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This farmhand in Blue Mound Township, McLean County, Illinois, wears a large straw hat and overalls. He sits cross-legged with his hand to his mouth. He has a mustache.
Market Street School
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The children and teacher of Market Street School pose in front of their schoolhouse.
Pantagraph Letterhead
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Letterhead for the Bloomington Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co. which offers a variety of printing services.
Portable Elevator Company
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A worker at the Portable Elevator Co. pours iron in this 1935 photograph.
Maxwell, Batchelder and Co. Business Receipt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1872, Maxwell, Batchelder & Co. manufacturered inks and sold books and stationery.
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.
Melvin and Ada Hendricks
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows Melvin and Ada Hendricks on their wedding day, February 25, 1939.
Metal Wheeled Tractor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three farmers in overalls look over the engine of a metal wheeled tractor in the 1930s as a well-dressed man sits on the machine with a jug.
Rosencrans School, interior
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The interior of the Rosencrans School, Illinois, is decorated with pictures and paper chains. The children and their teacher are seated at their desks.
Sanborn Map, Grand Opera House, 1892
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of the Grand Opera House in McLean County, Illinois, 1892. The Opera House is located next to the A. Brockaw Plow Factory. (alternate spelling: Brokaw)
Sanborn Map, McLean County Court House, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of the McLean County, Illinois Court House, 1886.
Sanborn Map, McLean County Court House, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sanborn map of the McLean County, Illinois Court House, 1901.
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.
Osborn Bakery Advertisement
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)S.G. Osborn owned a bakery, confectionery, restaurant and oyster saloon at the southwest corner of Center and Grove.
Oxen on Turn-of-the-Century Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Oxen, like this team on a turn-of-the-century McLean County farm, were slower than horses but more suited to heavy tasks like prairie breaking.
Price Jones 1914 Tile Barn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This tile barn was built by Price Jones in 1914 to house feeder cattle. It is located near Towanda.
Trimmed Hedge in Old Town Township
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This hedge in Old Town Township, McLean County, is one of the few surviving examples of traditional trimming in the county.
Tryner and Richardson Cigar Factory
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tryner and Richardson's Cigar Factory employed a dozen hand rollers in 1894.
Twelve-horse Hitch
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows a 12-horse hitch being used to plow a field in McLean County, Illinois.
Murphy Farms in winter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)During the winter months, snow covers the topsoil of cornfields with dead cornstalks, exposed here at Murphy Farms near Shirley.