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John F. Farnsworth 8th Ill. Cavalry

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 1894; ink on emulsion: 1894, JF Farnsworth. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war phot... More

Michigan Terrace, Michigan Avenue. Looking towards teh Central Depot f...

Print shows the Michigan Terrace, or Terrace Row residences, 11 separate luxury dwellings in a single large building facing Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, with carriage and pedestrian traffic, and with t... More

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - Mrs. O'Leary's res...

Stereo published by J. Mountford. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI RESIDENCES; Photog. Index; Ill. Chicago Residences; Ill. Chicago Hist.; Shelf. Patrick O'Leary.

The main street of Shawneetown, Illinois

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Hart-Bolton American history maps - Public domain map

Wall maps. Relief shown by gradient tints and hachures. Title from the separately published Teacher's manual accompanying the Hart-Bolton American history maps. Chicago : Denoyer-Geppert, 1919. Manuals describi... More

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Community desig...

E. B. Washburne Papers: Bound volumes, letters received; 1867; Oct. 9-...

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Nicholas Jarrot Mansion, State Route 157, Cahokia, St. Clair County, I...

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Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cle...

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically left margin: House where the first subscription to the "Boston Liberator" was got up. Inscribed above image: I have made the flags drooping it was raining hard ... More

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 ...

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Reli... More

Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Old Fort Dearborn with surroundings in 1856

Print shows a blockhouse at center with a lighthouse to the left, a large tree in the right foreground and a smaller building labeled "Lake House" behind it. There are smokestacks and masts on a side-wheeler la... More

[University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois]

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Capitol of Illinois, no. 26 - An old photo of a building with a clock ...

Photograph shows the Illinois State House draped with black and white mourning cloth for the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. (Source: Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Philip B, Twenty Days: A Narrative in text and pi... More

Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in C...

Wheeler Parker, Jr., discusses his visit to Mississippi with his cousin, Emmett Till. He recalls the incident at Bryant's store and the night that Till was kidnapped, and Till's funeral in Chicago. He remembers... More

Reaching out for the river - drill grounds of the defenders of Cairo, ...

Panoramic view of the parade grounds at Camp Defiance, Cairo, Illinois shows troops from several Illinois volunteer units engaged in drill practice; in the background is the Mississippi River. Copyright by Rev... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo /

Depths shown by soundings in feet. Indicates Fort Cairo, naval depot, and "harbor for powder barges" at Mound City, soundings in feet, roads and streets, and vegetation. Upper left margin: No. 31, No. 3020. Pri... More

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - interior of Post O...

Stereo by P.B. Greene. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Post offices Ill.; Ill. Chicago Bldgs.; Ill. Chicago Hist.; Shelf.

The great railroad strike of July 1877

[8] Scenes and incidents at the principal points of the labor insurrection: (1) Ill. - the first attack by Chicago police on the mob; (2) Penn. - ruins of the round-house and carshops at Pittsburgh; (3) N.Y. - ... More

Through London with Dickens - A poster for a play called through londo...

T6231 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Frank Oakes Rose. Created by "Shober & Carqueville Lith. Co., Chicago, U.S.A." No. 348. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The Chicago Fire, 1871 - A black and white photo of a city

Photo of painted cyclorama copyrighted by G.M. Watson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Lawrence Swiney i.e. Swinyer, veteran of 1812 Eight sons of Lawrence S...

Photograph shows montage of portraits of Lawrence Swinyer, who served in the War of 1812, and his sons who all served in the Civil War: John Swinyer of Co. B, 9th Vermont Infantry Regiment and Co. G, 14th Vermo... More

Republican [National] Convention, [Chicago, Illinois,] 1920.

Title derived from Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of six suffragists at the 1920 Republican National Convention in Chicago, gathered in front of a building with suffrage banners. Mrs. James Rect... More

Clinic patient receiving instruction card at municipal tuberculosis sa...

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Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a ...

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Chicago, Illinois. Lake Michigan beach

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Exhibit hall at the Field Museum of Natural History in Grant Park, Chi...

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Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...

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Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in front of tent a...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

The Anarchist Riot in Chicago - A Dynamite Bomb exploding among the po...

Drawn by T. de Thulstrup from sketches and photos furnished by H. Jeaneret. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 30, (1886 May 15), p. 312-313. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

[Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, head-and-shoulders portrait,...

Photo shows Lincoln in a print made from a negative taken by Alexander Hesler, Springfield, Illinois, June 3, 1860. Lincoln said of this portrait: "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have ever... More

Sumner's grand division crossing the Rappahannock

Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War / Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden. Chicago : The Puritan Press Co., c1894, v. 2, p. 411.

Unity Building and Dearborn Street, Chicago

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Pneumo-thorax treatment in municipal tuberculosis sanitarium. Mostly N...

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Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...

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An illustrated historical atlas map of Randolph County, Ills. : carefu...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4348 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Randolph County, and brief biographies and portraits of ear... More

An illustrated historical atlas map of Randolph County, Ills. : carefu...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4348 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Randolph County, and brief biographies and portraits of ear... More

Driveway near Field Museum [of Natural History], Jackson Park, Chicago...

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[Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois]

Title devised from Harper's Weekly. Inscribed below image: old. Within image: pink, white. Inscribed on bunting: The father; Sooner Than Surrender These Principles I Would Be Assassinated on this. Gift, J.P. Mo... More

Camps at Stevenson Ala. March 4-1864

Naive (self-taught) image with cabins in foreground, men in carriage pulling cannon lower left, tents, cabins and fort in background. Signed lower right: G.H. Blakeslee March 4 - T.E. 1864. Title inscribed in r... More

"The tribute to the Minotaur" - the interests of all other states sacr...

Illustration shows Samuel J. Randall seated at one end of a gondola and William D. Kelley standing at the other end calling out "to the Protection Minotaur of Pennsylvania", between them are several maiden wome... More

Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs of Chicago and Washington, D.C., is one of th...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, half-length, Jessie Hardy Stubbs, facing forward, wearing short-brimmed hat, gloves, plaid suit with sailor-style blouse and necktie, carrying bri... More

Union artillery, Taylor's battery, Ft. Donelson

Photograph shows Battery B, first regiment, Illinois Light Artillery lead by Captain Ezra Taylor at Fort Donelson in Dover, Tennessee. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Robi... More

Union artillery, Taylor's battery, Ft. Donelson

Photograph shows Battery B, first regiment, Illinois Light Artillery lead by Captain Ezra Taylor at Fort Donelson in Dover, Tennessee. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Robi... More

[Medal of honor awarded to Private Wilbur F. Moore of Co. C, 117th Ill...

Inscription on mat: "Medal from Congress given 22 February 1865, Pvt. Wilbur F. Moore, Co. C 117th Ill. Vol. Inf. Gallantry in action at Nashville, 16 December 1864. Captured the flag of a rebel battery while f... More

Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Couch's Corps forming line of battle in the fields at Chancellorsville...

Title inscribed below image. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Inscribed on verso: Battle May 1-3, 1863 Chancellorsville, Va. 11; Corps ... 26 Wisconsin; 25 Ohio; 82 Illinois; 55 Ohio; No II 2. MJB 32. Gift, J.P... More

Home of Abraham Lincoln - An old photo of a horse and carriage in fron...

Photograph shows a street view Abraham Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois draped in mourning on the day of his funeral. A horse stands near a wooden plank from the street to the sidewalk. Copyright May 2... More

The Mississippi River Fleet at Mound City, Illinois

No. 3132. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Bird's eye view of Batavia, Kane County, Illinois, 1869.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. "Looking south west." LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 138 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of inter... More

[Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, half-length portrait, facing...

Photo of Lincoln made from a negative taken in Springfield, Illinois, by Alexander Hesler on June 3, 1860. One of several poses from that day. "Wrote Lincoln's law partner, William H. Herndon, 'There is the pec... More

Residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, Ill.

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The Good Shepherd Community Center. Chicago, Illinois

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An illustrated historical atlas map of Randolph County, Ills. : carefu...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4348 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Randolph County, and brief biographies and portraits of ear... More

A scene on the frontiers as practiced by the "humane" British and thei...

Charles denounces British and Indian depredations on the American frontier during the War of 1812, alluding specifically to the practice of offering bounties for American scalps. The cartoon may have been prom... More

Receipt book for officer and soldier's certificates, Illinois Grant

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[Lincoln's coffin on view at State House, Springfield, Illinois]

Title devised from Harper's Weekly. Inscribed below image: old. Within image: pink, white. Inscribed on bunting: The father; Sooner Than Surrender These Principles I Would Be Assassinated on this. Gift, J.P. Mo... More

Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Reception of the Remains at Chicago

Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud, no. 702. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: The Funeral car passing under the arch. 36 young ladies in white placing w... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

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Civil War envelope showing woman nursing soldier with message "Lovely ...

Addressed to Mrs. F. Behymer, Shelbyville, Illinois ; postmarked Richmond, Kentucky ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Amberman Postal History, Clifton Park, New York,... More

[Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry drilling at Colum...

Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:122). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg ... More

[Bayoneted rifles on racks at arsenal of 134th Illinois Volunteer Infa...

Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:122). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg ... More

Drake's Block, cor. Wabash Ave. and Washington St.

Photo shows the ruins of the Drake Block in Chicago, which was destroyed by fire in September 1870 (before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871). Stereo by Copelin & Melander. No. 177, printed on front. No. 63, writ... More

View in Franklin Park, Bloomington, Ill.

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Home of John D. Rockefeller, Forest Hill, Cleveland, Ohio

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Scene in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

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Vacant lot and apartment building in Negro section of Chicago, Illinoi...

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Roller skating at the Savoy Ballroom on Saturday night. Chicago, Illin...

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Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

An illustrated historical atlas map of Randolph County, Ills. : carefu...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4348 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Randolph County, and brief biographies and portraits of ear... More

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...

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An illustrated historical atlas map of Randolph County, Ills. : carefu...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4348 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Randolph County, and brief biographies and portraits of ear... More

Lincoln's tomb / photographed by C. H. Hall, Springfield, Illinois

Photograph shows the public receiving tomb of Abraham Lincoln at Oak Ridge Cemetery. One man is seated in the foreground and another man stands at the entrance to the vault along with two soldiers in uniform.(... More

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 ...

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Reli... More

National picture. Behold oh! American, your sons the greatest among me...

One of the numerous patriotic apotheosis scenes produced in the months following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. (The Library's impression of "National Picture" was deposited for copyright on July 18, 186... More

Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Alton trials:

Report of the trials succeeding the anti-abolition riot in which Elijah P. Lovejoy was killed. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Illinois Central Railroad Freight ...

Significance: As the oldest of three such freight warehouses built in the railyards near Dubuque's ice harbor, the Illinois Central depot is historically significant for its association with early Dubuque rail ... More

Kay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louis...

Summary: Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAA... More

Reception of the Remains at Chicago

Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud, no. 702. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: The Funeral car passing under the arch. 36 young ladies in white placing w... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More

Illustrated atlas map of Cass County, Illinois : carefully compiled fr...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4091 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, brief history of Cass County, and brief biographies and portraits of early C... More