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

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.
Ford Station Wagon 1933
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
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.
Stubblefield Horse
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Percheron horse stands in the foreground of the Stubblefield Stables. A lot of farm work was carried out with the help of Percheron or Norman horses, which were bred and sold in Normal, Illinois.
Orient Motor Buckboard
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A flat board automobile with an air-cooled engine in the rear, a tiller for steering, curved wooden cycle fenders, and four wooden wheels with wire spokes.
Concord Coach
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A nine passenger, Eastern-style Concord road coach. Originally the coach’s body was painted red and its carriage yellow, but the coach has been over painted with the exception of the door scenes. Its original center "jump seat" is missing, (a "jump seat" is an adjustable seat that, when it is not in use, can be hidden from view.) The two slat type seats on top of coach were ...
Hupmobile 5-seater Touring Car 1921
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing for an advertisement
DeLuxe Plymouth Sedan 1934
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
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.
Voyageurs in a canoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington. Sometimes the voyageurs transported passengers, as well as cargo.
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.
French Cavalry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white photograph of French cavalry.
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.
Voyageurs portaging canoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington. Large packs of supplies and goods were carried overland, sometimes for miles, on the backs of the voyageurs, when necessary.
Voyageurs around a campfire
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington. Firelight reflects on the weary faces of the voyageurs as they enjoy smoking their pipes at the end of the day.
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.
Pennsylvania Central Railroad advertisement
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1867 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. This clipping contains a route map, time table, and a "rates of fare from Philadelphia" list for August 1867.
Illinois Central Railroad map: New Orleans to Chicago, Madison, and Omaha
Multi-Page Item | 14 pages | 1900 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A map of the Illinois Central Railroad displaying routes from New Orleans, Louisiana to Chicago, Illinois, Madison, Wisconsin, and Omaha, Nebraska. This map is dated June 30, 1900. 7 copies.
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.
Atlantic and Great Western Broad Gauge Railway
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1866 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for the Atlantic and Great Western Broad Gauge Railway in 1866-1847. The clipping lists three primary routes to New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and the passenger agents such as Sam A. Lewis, B. Shattuck, and A. J. Wilson.
Independent Extra advertisement
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1853 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A clipping of the "Independent Extra" advertising "The Cars are Coming! Clear the Track" since the vote was successful in bringing varied forms of transportation to the small town. This clipping was published in Macomb, Illinois on August 22, 1853.
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 Mason Machine Works
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1870 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A poster of an advertisement for "The Mason Machine Works, Manufacturers of Cotton Machinery, Locomotives, Car Wheels" located in Taunton, Massachusetts. This advertisement includes photographs of the eight wheel locomotive, double track locomotive, and the cotton card and cotton loom.
Manchester Locomotive Works
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1870 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A poster of an advertisement for "Manchester Locomotive Works [in] Manchester, New Hampshire." This broadside includes two photographs of a locomotive and the manufacturing location in New Hampshire.
Best Friend Locomotive
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 189 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A poster entitled "'The Best Friend', the First Locomotive built in the United States for actual service on a Railroad" describing the history of the train's construction in New York and operation for the South Carolina Railroad in 1831.
Reduced fares to New York handbill
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1898 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A handbill entitled "Reduced Fares to New York and Return" created by The Merchant's Association of New York at the Fall Trade Convention in 1898. This document includes date ranges for various railroad fare special offers.
Railroad addition to the town of Urbana
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1900 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A map of the "Rail Road Addition to the Town of Urbana" in Urbana, Illinois.
Paris and Danville Railroad Company pass
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1876 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A pass written for Philip Shutt, Editor of The Paris Times, from the Paris and Danville Railroad Company in 1876.
Vermont and Mass. Railroad clipping
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1852 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An advertisement for Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, including dates and times for departures in January 1852.
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.
Great International Railway Suspension Bridge
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1860 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)An engraving of the Great International Railway Suspension Bridge, "in full view of the Falls, connecting the United States and Canada, the New York Central and Great Western Rail Ways.
Safety Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 7
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1936 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A monthly bulletin entitled "Safety Bulletin" issued by the Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings, Division of Highways in October 1936. This issue discusses the number of traffic deaths and accidents since January 1936 and provides statistics for causes, type of accidents, and deaths in various Illinois cities. The department emphasizes safety with this slogan: ...
Ford 3-window DeLuxe Coupe 1934
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Dodge Business Sedan 1922
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing for an advertisement
Here's a war job for you
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Poster, color, 13.9 x 17.9 in., published by the Railroad Manpower Mobilization Committee
Saybrook, Illinois, 1900
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photograph shows the snow-covered streets of Saybrook, Illinois, in the winter of 1900.
Illinois Central Railroad Company construction bond
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1852 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A financial record of the Illinois Central Railroad Company "Construction Bond of $500" in this "Provisional Certificate No. 1231." This document was created in New York on August 16, 1852 and the additional installments to be paid in 1853 and 1854.
Chicago and Burlington Rail Road Line circular
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1856 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A circular from the Chicago and Burlington Rail Road Line General Freight Office informing "agents on this line are hereby authorized to make a deduction of twenty per center from tariff rates on all corn shipped to Chicago" and "on grain." This circular is dated May 6, 1856.
Sterling and Rock Island Rail Road Company election of directors
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | 1860 | Clarendon Van Norman Jr. Collection of Ephemera (Digitized Content)A circular sent from Secretary, David Leavitt informing individuals that the Sterling & Rock Island Rail Road Company will hold an election for directors of the company for next year in Sterling, Illinois on January 12, 1860.
Milburn Electric Car
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and blue two-passenger, two-door electric car. The car has a tiller for steering, two headlights, one taillight, and four rubber tires.

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