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

Portrait of America at the New Workers School
Image | 1933 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Mexican
Frozen funds
Image | 1932 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching Collectionpainted for a 1931 exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Kimono altered into a Western-style Dress for Mrs. Woodrow (Edith) Wilson
Image | 1920 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Japanese
Four sheets - United States of Nth. America; carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amâerique Septentrionale.
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1808 | Historical Maps Online1 map, colored
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.
A new and general map of the middle dominions belonging to the United States of America
Image | 1794 | Historical Maps OnlineKarpinski L. Bibliography of the printed maps of Michigan 1804-1880, no. CX.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene depicting circus performers. On the left is a man training a black horse. On the right are two acrobatic clowns performing stunts with papered hoops.
Forged Iron Ring
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a three inch diameter ring forged in the Chesebro blacksmith shop.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This iron standing lamp has an open cylindrical reservoir which cants (swings).
Hardy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wedge shaped tool with three groove marks 1.125" long on the wedge face.
Paper Girl Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a girl paper doll identified as 'Violet.' Over a petticoat, she wears a white dress with thin pink stripes and blue ribbons.
Lamp, whale oil with clock
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp is made of pewter. It stands on a tall, slender cylindrical stem. The reservoir is an inverted pear shaped bulb surrounded by a strap of thinly hammered pewter numbered 1 to 12 in Roman numerals. The reservoir leads to a spout shaped wick opening.
Armand Marseille All-Bisque Infant Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A bisque head doll with 'sleepy eyes', an open mouth that has two applied teeth in red lips. It has pink cheeks and brown hair which is brush stroked. The body of the doll is jointed with moveable arms and legs. It is wearing a white linen diaper that is safety-pinned. This doll looks very similar to Armand Marseille's 'My Dream Baby.' It has the marks A.M. Germany 351.1510k.
All-Bisque Japanese Baby Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is an all-bisque baby doll that has moveable arms. The doll has a painted face with features including black eyes, pink cheeks, red lips, and light colored hair.
Gas Valve and Burner Fitting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This fitting is made of cast brass and has fleur-de-les ornamentation. A pipe with a threaded socket screw connects the fitting.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five handpainted roundels framed in a black background. All of the scenes appear to be of Venice, but the slide is in poor condition.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide depicting four dogs in human dress. The background is black and the dogs faces appear in roundels. The dogs are all wearing the headgear of well dressed men.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted figures depicting five children in modes of dress from far-off lands.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five busts of adults floating in a blue background. The slide is cracked in half.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five handpainted figures one of whom appears to be Santa Claus.
Carte des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, et du cours du Mississippi...
Image | 1784 | Historical Maps OnlineParis and Ferro.
Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika.
Image | 1798 | Historical Maps OnlineFerro.
Map of the United States of America.
Image | 1818 | Historical Maps OnlineRelief shown using hachures.
Willie Causey and Family, Shady Grove, Alabama
Image | 1956 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionImage view: General view
Blunt Calked Horseshoes Vs. Sharp Calked Horseshoes
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Calks were knob-like structures placed on a horseshoe to prevent a horse from slipping. Blunt calks are box shaped, the top being most obviously flat. Sharp calks come to a point at the top and look triangular from the side.
King of the Speedway and Queen of the Speedway Horseshoes
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The King of the Speedway and the Queen of the Speedway are both brands of a very light, thin, and smooth racing horseshoe.
Homemade Cloth Marionette
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a blonde yarn haired girl marionette. She has threaded blue eyes, red lips, and a black nose. She wears a blue dress with a white collar. Pinned to the left arm is a gold paper horn. The body is made of a light beige colored material.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A cone shaped chamber lamp made of tin with the double wick fixture of a whale oil lamp.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five men in various foolish activities.
Lamp, whale oil with double reflector
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp is made of pewter. The foot holds a vertical cylindrical reservoir above which are held the typical parallel double wicks of the whale oil lamp. On either side of the wicks are two large pieces of glass meant to magnify the flame.
Lantern, Buggy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular buggy lantern. This rectangular lantern has a square footprint and has thin glass panes on three sides. One side opens via hinge to provide for igniting the lantern. The fourth side of the lantern has a reflector panel on the interior and, on the exterior, a folding hinged mechanism for fastening the lantern to the front of a buggy. Oil is held on the bottom by a...
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This iron standing lamp has an open cylindrical reservoir which cants (swings).
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This canting brass chamber lamp has a double wick.
Lamp, Whale Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp with single wick, bulb reservoir for oil fitted into a reused candlestand.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five scenes of people hunting in roundels framed in black background.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a fourth figure--a boy--wears a yellow double breasted coat, a round hat and carries an umbrella. A fifth figure, a girl wears a bonnet, a blue scarf and has her hands in her pockets.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene of four groups enjoying spring and summer activities: two people flying a kite, a man and his dog setting off on a hunt, two girls picking flowers, a boy chasing butterflies with a net.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene of four groups of people enjoying winter activities: two sets of boys having a snowball fight, a girl riding in a sleigh chair across a frozen lake, and an old man smoking a pipe in an icy doorway.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted faces of children. A black background is painted with the children's faces shown in roundels with a clear background.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted figures of children. The background is black and the children, mostly babies are highlighted in clear roundels. One child is shown taking a bath, another, playing with a pull toy.

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