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

(Two sheets) Lloyd's American railroad map, showing the whole seat of war.
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1861 | Historical Maps OnlineCovers area east of the Mississippi River. Omits most of Florida and northern Maine. Indicates "railroads in running order."
Gest's map of railways centering at Cincinnati with their tributary lines in adjoining states and Canada west.
Image | 1853 | Historical Maps OnlineThe geographical features taken from Colton's map of the United States.
John P. Ahrens, E. B. Leigh and E. T. Walker
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoE. T. Walker, Secretary and Treasurer".
Chicago general offices
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Assembling department
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Shipping department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Rail Testing Lab
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
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.
Pioneer Zephyr
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A streamlined stainless steel high-speed motor three-car train, powered by a 600 horsepower diesel engine. The train is 197 feet long. It weighs ninety-eight tons.
Bloomington Pickle Factory
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bloomington Pickle Factory manufactured pickles and vinegar in the 1920s and 1930s.
Smaller freight tunnel
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "A typical view in the smaller sized portion of the tunne.l"
Railway lines south from Chicago
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroads and Connections Showing Direct Lines to Chicago." From text: "Direct to Chicago via the Illinois Central R. R. Best of daily through train service from the South[.] As shown by the opposite map, the Illinois Central, in addition to its lines in other directions, has a particularly strong group of direct l...
Board of directors
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Board of Directors: E. L. Adreon, John P. Ahrens, Jesse A. Baldwin, E. B. Leigh, F. P. Hays, C. S. Gleed, Albert Blair".
Brake beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Brake Beam Department--North". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Bird's-eye view
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Map of the state of Illinois, N. America showing all its rail-roads completed or in progress connecting with lines direct to N. York, S. Louis & Canada, their stations distances & c....
Image | 1855 | Historical Maps OnlineChecklist of printed maps of the Middle West to 1900, 4-1547.
American Central Railway.
Image | 1866 | Historical Maps OnlineRelief shown using hachures.
Railroad map of Illinois, 1894-5.
Image | 1895 | Historical Maps OnlineIncludes a list of "Crossings equipped with interlocking and signaling devices approved by the Railroad and Warehouse Commission."
Goldthwaite's map of the United States & Canada : exhibiting the railroads with their distances, single and double track & width of gauge.
Image | 1861 | Historical Maps OnlineRelief shown using hachures.
Railroads - Ribbons of Steel
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Steam Engine in McLean County about 1875
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A steam engine in McLean County about 1875.
T'day's Farmer
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)T'day's Farmer by Kin Hubbard from Back Country Folks, a year's accumulation of the philosophy and sketches of Abe Martin and others of Brown County, Indiana.
Union Depot, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A crowd mingles on the Union Depot platform on West Washington Street, Bloomington, Illinois.
Illinois Highway Map, 1989-90.
Image | 1989 | Historical Maps OnlineAmtrak routes
D.B. Cooke & Co.'s railway guide for Illinois shewing all the stations with their respective distances connecting with Chicago.
Image | 1855 | Historical Maps OnlineLith. by H. Acheson, ...Chicago.
Rand McNally & Co's Illinois.
Image | 1883 | Historical Maps OnlineChicago & vicinity, Vicinity of Rock Island & Davenport.
Draughting department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoDraughting department for Chicago location of the Chicago Railway Equipment Company.
Tool department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoTool department for Chicago Railway Equipment Company.
Power room
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Bolster department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bolster Dep't Hydraulic Press Multiple Punch". Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Assembling department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Shipping department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Marion facility.
Furnace rooms and annealing building
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "General Views looking North Showing Furnace Rooms--looking East Showing Annealing Building and New Foundries". Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Annealing department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Marvin Hughitt
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Marvin Hughitt: President of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway since 1887."
Comiskey and White Sox spring training train
Image | 1919 | Picture Chicagoat the left is 'Big Ed' Walsh. The sign on the observation car advertises the 'cargo' and its destination. These specials were renowned not only for the luxuriousness of their fittings, but also for the sumptuous assortment of food and drink provided by the Old Roman. The dispatchers ran the trains on special schedules which permitted the travellers to 'visit' on the way."
Railroads - The Keystone to American Transportation [ tour of the Illinois Central Champaign Roundhouse ]
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Railroads; Soybeans [ research accomplishments of the University of Illinois ]
Audio | 1953 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Weston Depot
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The small wooden depot served the town of Weston, Illinois. Multiple railroad tracks can be seen in the foreground.
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.

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