Browse Collections (545 total)

Otto J. Krampikowsky was a Chicagoan who served in World War I. His collection contains numerous images from the war and the armistice period.

The Hearst Corporation, founded by William Randolph Hearst, became the largest media conglomerate in the world in the 1920s, and has had continued…

The Keeley Institute was founded in Dwight in 1879 by Leslie Keeley and, until it closed its doors in 1965, offered treatment to cure alcoholism. At…

This collection includes images of Indian chiefs and camp life.

Arthur Detmers Dubin (1923-2011) was a Chicago architect, transportation expert, and train enthusiast. Photos in this collection highlight his…

The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. Illinois contributed…

Victor Emmanuel Georg, a German immigrant, was a nationally recognized artist and photographer who worked out of Chicago and Springfield. One of his…

A selection of photographs from a wide range of collections. Images in the Miscellaneous Collection include broadsides, oversized photographs, cased…

These photographs are only a few of some 1,700 images in the Guy Mathis Collection. Mathis, a pioneering Illinois photographer and automobile dealer,…

This collection consists of historic photographs from three of Illinois’s maximum security prisons, one of which, Joliet, is no longer in…

The Illinois Photographic Collection contains images from the more than 400,000 photographs and 5,000 broadsides held in the audiovisual collection of…