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St. Louis and Indianapolis Rail Road Company circular

Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company lands for use

Illinois Central Railroad Company construction deed

Union Pacific Railroad Company Eastern Division invitation

The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway poster

Union Rolling Mill Company advertisement

Eastern Railroad U.S. Mail route handbill

New Haven Line and Rocky Point poster

Car coupling patent filed in Great Britain

The Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works

Illinois Central Railroad blueprint map: New Orleans to Chicago

Niagara Belt Line brochure

Articles of Incorporation of the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad Company

North Chicago Rolling Mill Company advertisement

J. H. Bass Manufacturing Company advertisement

Bloomington, Illinois

C&A Shops, Locomotive

Benz Velo Automobile

Interior of a Pullman Car

Hupmobile 5-seater Touring Car 1921

Parallel Calked Horseshoes Vs. Perpendicular Calked Horseshoes

Royal Page Davidson Armored Car

Twelve-horse Hitch

U-505 Submarine

Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model

Tilbury Flash' Airplane

Office of the Central Military Tract Railroad Company circular letter

To Rail Road Companies

University Air Transportation

Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge elevation plan

Barnum and Richardson Manufacturing Company advertisement

State Highway Engineers condemn taxpayer money spent on road material experiments

Commercial Record, vol. 15, no. 12

The Hinkley Locomotive Works

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad clipping

The Morton Ventilator advertisement

Illinois Midland Railway Company

Price List of Land Exploring Tickets over the Wisconsin Central Railroad

Ford Exposition: A Century of Progress

Map of the Frisco Line clipping

St. Louis and Indianapolis Rail Road Company circular
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 0 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A circular from Joseph Gillespie and Willis Allen describing the political controversy of the Illinois Senate approving the "act to incorporate the St. Louis and Indianapolis Rail Road Company" in small Illinois towns during the 1850s.
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company lands for use
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1853 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A letter to Matthew Eagan from the Commissioners Elmer Baldwin, William Cullen, and Charles H. Sutphen informing him that "the appropriation of certain lands and lots for the use of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company, has been duly filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court, of the county of La Salle," Illinois, dated January 3, 1853.
Illinois Central Railroad Company construction deed
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1880 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A photographic copy of a construction deed allocating forty acres of land to John Bradly from the Illinois Central Railroad Company. It was signed by the State of Illinois trustees John M. Palmer, William K. Ackerman, and Robert T. Lincoln on May 25, 1880.
Union Pacific Railroad Company Eastern Division invitation
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1864 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An invitation from the Union Pacific Railroad Company Eastern Division, "to celebrate the opening of the first section of forty miles of their road west from the Missouri River."
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway poster
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1880 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A poster entitled "The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway." This advertisement by the railway's President, R. R. Gable, presents the railroad line as "The middle link in the Transcontinental Interoceanic Chain."
Union Rolling Mill Company advertisement
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1878 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for Union Rolling Mill Company, a transportation manufacturing business that sold Bessemer steel and iron rails.
Eastern Railroad U.S. Mail route handbill
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1870 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A handbill for the "Eastern Railroad. U.S. Mail Route Between Boston and the State of Maine and the Sea Shore Route for the White Mountains and the East." This document was created by Superintendent J. Prescott and printed by C.C. Roberts in Boston, Massachusetts on May 1, 1870.
New Haven Line and Rocky Point poster
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1874 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A poster advertising "The New Haven Line, Consisting of the Steamers C. H. Northam, Continental and Elm City, Running Daily Between New York and New Haven" and "'Rocky Point,' Its Hotel and Pleasure Grounds [in] Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island." This poster includes photographs of the C. H. Northam steamer and Rocky Point's hotel and surrounding area.
Car coupling patent filed in Great Britain
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | 1891 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A document providing the "complete specification" for the "improvements in automatic car couplings" invented by Albert Fontayne, Sr. of Chicago, Illinois. The patent application was filed in London, England by Herbert and Company on behalf of Fontayne on August 4, 1891 and accepted on December 5, 1891.
The Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1870 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A broadside advertising "The Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works, Alleghany City, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." This advertisement includes photographs of the consolidated engine and yard engine.
Illinois Central Railroad blueprint map: New Orleans to Chicago
Multi-Page Item | 14 pages | 1877 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A map of the Illinois Central Railroad displaying route from New Orleans, Louisiana to Chicago, Illinois. This map is dated December 31, 1877. 7 copies.
Niagara Belt Line brochure
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1900 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A brochure entitled, "The Niagara Belt Line: Around and Through the Niagara Gorge, Niagara Falls, Lewiston and Queenston" from the International Railway and Niagara Gorge Railroad agencies. This document displays a history of the Niagara Belt Line and construction photographs. A landscape artistic piece by H. H. Green resides on the reverse side of the brochure.
Articles of Incorporation of the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad Company
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1881 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A circular letter from the State of Illinois dictating the Articles of Incorporation of the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad Company in Kane County. This document was signed by the Board of Directors on September 3, 1881.
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company advertisement
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1878 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for a transportation manufacturing business. North Chicago Rolling Mill Company produced and sold pig metal, iron rails, and Bessemer steel rails.
J. H. Bass Manufacturing Company advertisement
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1878 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for a transportation manufacturing company. J. H. Bass sold car, railway, and truck equipment and wheels.
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.
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.
Benz Velo Automobile
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Benz Velo is a motorized two-passenger buggy. Its engine is situated in a box behind the seats. The auto has four wheels with spokes, the back two are 35.5 and the front two are twenty-three inches. The car is painted burgundy with gold trim.
Interior of a Pullman Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Pullman dining car is decorated with elaborate furniture, curtains and carpeting.
Hupmobile 5-seater Touring Car 1921
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing for an advertisement
Parallel Calked Horseshoes Vs. Perpendicular Calked Horseshoes
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Calks are knob-like structures that are placed on a horseshoe to keep the horse from slipping. Calks are placed on the ends of the shoe and/or on the toe. Parallel calked horseshoes have their calking placed in the same direction or are parallel to each other. While the perpendicular calked horseshoes have one of the calks facing forward and the other facing sideways or are ...
Royal Page Davidson Armored Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Royal Page Davidson Armored car weighs 1,100 pounds. Its steam boiler is in the front and is connected to a six horsepower Duryea three-cylinder steam engine. On the vehicle's front frame is mounted a .223 caliber Colt automatic rapid-fire gun. A detachable bulletproof shield with a vertical opening surrounds the gun. There are three thirty-six inch wheels: one in the fr...
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.
U-505 Submarine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The U-505 is 252 feet long, thirty-seven feet high at the conning tower and twenty-two feet wide at its widest point. Its maximum speed was 18.3 knots on the surface and 7.3 knots submerged. The submarine had a range of 11,400 miles without refueling and could stay submerged for approximately thirty-two hours. It could carry twenty-two torpedoes. The submarine was designed t...
Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Museum and Santa Fe Railroad exhibit consists of 1,200 feet of track running through a 3,000 square-foot landscape representing, the Great Plains, the Arizona desert and Grand Canyon, and California. Sprawled across the model landscape are a suburban village, an elevated highway, a commercial grain elevator, a cement factory, an oil field and refinery, an orange grove, a...
Tilbury Flash' Airplane
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The "Tilbury Flash" is shown on the grounds of the Bloomington Airport, Illinois. It was a small racing airplane, with an 18-foot wing span and a motorcycle engine. It hangs from the ceiling at the McLean County Musuem of History.
Office of the Central Military Tract Railroad Company circular letter
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | 1855 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A circular letter sent from Treasurer Amos T. Hall of the Office of the Central Military Tract Railroad Company to inform a stockholder that "the Capital Stock of the company be called in" and payable "10 per cent April 14th and 15 per cent April 26th." This letter was sent from Chicago, Illinois and is dated March 5, 1855.
To Rail Road Companies
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1857 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A leaflet entitled "To Rail Road Companies" created by R. Root informing railroad lines of the "rotary fan blower" to clear the railroad tracks. R. Root circulated this leaflet in Galesburg, Illinois and it is dated December 16, 1857.
University Air Transportation
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge elevation plan
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1912 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A blueprint of the "Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge" Elevation Plan "patented August 6, 1912 for Railway Viaduct" by the Marsh Engineering Company in Des Moines, Iowa.
Barnum and Richardson Manufacturing Company advertisement
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1878 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for a transportation manufacturing business. Barnum and Richardson Manufacturing Company produced and sold car and locomotive wheels.
State Highway Engineers condemn taxpayer money spent on road material experiments
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1916 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A poster published by Vermilion County Permanent Roads Association claiming "State Highway Engineers of Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and U.S. Dept. Office of Public Roads, Washington, D.C., condemn the 2-inch base and say it is experimental." The Roads Association wishes to raise support, condemning the 2-inch base in road construction.
Commercial Record, vol. 15, no. 12
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1870 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A periodical entitled "Commercial Record" edited by F. R. Voigt and printed by Francis and Valentine, Commercial Steam Printing in San Francisco, California. This issue is dated December 23, 1870 and includes various railroad and ship schedules and market prices.
The Hinkley Locomotive Works
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1870 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A broadside advertising "The Hinkley Locomotive Works, Manufactures of Locomotive Engines and Tenders, Boilers, and Tanks [and] Sole Manufacturers of The Hinkley Patent Boiler" located in Boston, Massachusetts.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad clipping
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1878 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad traveling west from Chicago to various destinations such as San Francisco, California, New Mexico, and Colorado. D.W. Hitchcook is the General Western Passenger Agent located in Chicago, Illinois.
The Morton Ventilator advertisement
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1878 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for a railway car business showcasing the Morton Ventilator. This clipping includes an illustration of the ventilator and provides a contact for further information, E. H. Winchell.
Illinois Midland Railway Company
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1876 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A handbill advertising the Illinois Midland Railway Company, including a "List of Routes" on the reverse side. This advertisement was published by the Office of the Gen'l Passenger and Ticket Agent in Paris, Illinois, May 1876.
Price List of Land Exploring Tickets over the Wisconsin Central Railroad
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1881 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A flyer about the "price list of land exploring tickets over the Wisconsin Central Railroad" from Milwaukee to several towns. Tickets may "be obtained only of the Land Commissioner at Milwaukee," Charles L. Colby.
Ford Exposition: A Century of Progress
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1933 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A brochure entitled "Ford Exposition: A Century of Progress" describing the event in Chicago, Illinois in 1933-1934.
Map of the Frisco Line clipping
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1890 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A clipping of the "map of the 'Frisco Line' showing the 'Gulf' connection with Kansas City...occupied by the Adams Express Company."