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

Merna Grain Elevator 1997
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This Merna grain elevator, photographed in 1997, is no longer in operation.
Grain Warehouse (Office du Produits Agricoles du Mali) with Adobe Facade
Image | 1979-1980 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1979 and 1980.
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.
Tile Silo
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Marvin Hougham stands next to a tile silo built about 1920 by his father.
Cooksville, Illinois, Grain Elevator about 1910
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The farmer's grain elevator sits in Cooksville in 1910.
Rail Corn Crib
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rail corn cribs like this one, photographed about 1910, were popular forms of early pioneer corn storage.
Single Pen Corn Crib
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Many corn crib forms were possible for corn storage. This is a single crib.
Funk Warehouse
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Ears of corn fill a Funk warehouse in the early 1900s.
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.
Corn Crib Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The side of a wooden corn crib building with ears poking through gaps in the slats of wood. It appears to have a metal roof.
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.

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Merna Grain Elevator 1997

Grain Warehouse (Office du Produits Agricoles du Mali) with Adobe Facade

Excess corn stored outside elevator

Tile Silo

Cooksville, Illinois, Grain Elevator about 1910

Rail Corn Crib

Single Pen Corn Crib

Funk Warehouse

Metal Corn Bins

Corn Crib Building

Slatted Corn Crib bins

Merna Grain Elevator 1997

Grain Warehouse (Office du Produits Agricoles du Mali) with Adobe Facade

Excess corn stored outside elevator

Tile Silo

Cooksville, Illinois, Grain Elevator about 1910

Rail Corn Crib

Single Pen Corn Crib

Funk Warehouse

Metal Corn Bins

Corn Crib Building

Slatted Corn Crib bins