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Office of the Central Military Tract Railroad Company circular letter

To Rail Road Companies

French Cavalry

Voyageur

C.U. Williams Car Dealership

LaSalle Touring Sedan 1937

Harley-Davidson Sport Model

Simplex Open Touring Car

Weston Depot

Hauling corn to Shirley elevator

Franklin Airman 6 1934

Taxi Wreck

Bloomington - Normal Street Car

State Highway Engineers condemn taxpayer money spent on road material experiments

Commercial Record, vol. 15, no. 12

Barnum and Richardson Manufacturing Company advertisement

Price List of Land Exploring Tickets over the Wisconsin Central Railroad

Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge elevation plan

The Hinkley Locomotive Works

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad clipping

Illinois Midland Railway Company

The Morton Ventilator advertisement

Ford Exposition: A Century of Progress

Map of the Frisco Line clipping

University Air Transportation

St. Louis and Indianapolis Rail Road Company circular

Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company lands for use

Benz Velo Automobile

Royal Page Davidson Armored Car

Parallel Calked Horseshoes Vs. Perpendicular Calked Horseshoes

Hupmobile 5-seater Touring Car 1921

Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model

U-505 Submarine

C&A Shops, Locomotive

Twelve-horse Hitch

Tilbury Flash' Airplane

Interior of a Pullman Car

Bloomington, Illinois

Illinois Central Railroad Company construction deed

Union Pacific Railroad Company Eastern Division invitation

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.
French Cavalry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of French cavalry.
Voyageur
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A drawing by Frederic Remington of a voyageur. A vest, leather footgear, and a jaunty cap with a tassel complete his outfit.
C.U. Williams Car Dealership
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)C.U. Williams had several enterprises, including this car dealership. Williams also ran a picture postcard business.
LaSalle Touring Sedan 1937
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Harley-Davidson Sport Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Harley-Davidson 1919 Sport Model is a one-passenger motorcycle with a storage rack behind the seat. The gasoline tank is positioned between the chrome handlebars and seat. The cycle’s engine is two-cylinder and its rubber tires are chain driven. The Sport Model is painted flat army green. The rider’s seat is black.
Simplex Open Touring Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 1911 S & M Simplex Open Touring Car is a five-passenger convertible. The six-cylinder, water-cooled engine is located in the front. It has a four speed selective transmission and a double chain drive. The car has four whitewall rubber tires and one spare tire stored on the running board. It has a two-piece folding windshield and a collapsible canvas cover top. The seats ...
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.
Hauling corn to Shirley elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Darrell Beehn, Jr. hauls grain to the elevator near Shirley, Illinois, in the fall of 1995.
Franklin Airman 6 1934
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing for an advertisement
Taxi Wreck
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A crowd of people surround a wrecked taxi cab on a Bloomington, Illinois, street corner. The rear half of the taxi is demolished.
Bloomington - Normal Street Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The photo shows street cars that were part of the street railway system. The viaduct under the C&A tracks in Normal is shown, and it is still used by an occasional auto.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
University Air Transportation
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
Hupmobile 5-seater Touring Car 1921
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing for an advertisement
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."