Browse Collections (545 total)
Black-Abbot Family Collection
The Black-Abbot Family Collection contains images of several members of the Black and Abbot Families stemming from Helene Black Abbot and her husband,…
Blackford Collection
This collection features photographs relating to the Blackford Family of Findlay, Ohio. Price Blackford (1804-1851) of Pennsylvania married Abigail…
Boch Family Collection
The Boch family, headed by Stephen, Sr., a coal miner, and Maria "Mary" Prozniker Boch, were residents of Taylorville. Stephen and Maria immigrated…
Brown-Barnett Family Collection
Kentucky-native James J. Brown (ca. 1828-1862) married Sarah A. Barnett in Illinois on November 19, 1857. The couple had two sons, John (b. October…
Brown's Career College Collection
Photographs in this collection include images of students and instructors in the classroom, classrooms and offices at the Illinois Business College in…
Buckmaster-Curran Family Collection
The Buckmaster-Curran Collection features early Illinois families descended from Colonel John Durkee of Norwich, Connecticut, who fought in the…
Burkhalter Family Collection
James L. Burkhalter moved to Illinois from Pennsylvania in 1856. In 1858 he married Martha Ellen Adle in Galesburg and began raising a family. At the…
Butterfield Collection
Boston-born James A. B. Butterfield fought for the Union in the Second Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War. Sergeant Butterfield died on May 6,…
C. J. Jacoby Collection
Casper J. (or C. J.)Jacoby was born in 1855, one of eleven children of Henry and Katherine Peiter Jacoby of Brighton, Illinois.C. J. Jacoby attended…
C. Wayland Brooks Collection
Charles Wayland Brooks represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1940-1949. Brooks unsuccessfully ran for Illinois governor…
Cameron Family Collection
The Cameron Family collection contains images of John and Elizabeth Cameron from Hancock County, Illinois. The family moved to Hancock Township,…
Campbell Family Collection
The Campbell Family Collection includes images of siblings Leo and Agnes Campbell. Leo Campbell fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. His…
Canton Newspaper Collection
The Canton Newspaper Collection contains a variety of images focused on the Canton community. Photographs in this collection include images of St.…
Carl Sandburg Collection
Carl Sandburg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet from Illinois. Born in Galesburg, Sandburg attended school until the age of 13 when he left…
Central Illinois Typographical Union #177 Collection
The Central Illinois Typographical Union #177 began in May 1878 as the Springfield (Ill.) Typographical Union No. 177. During the 1970s the…
Charles A. Deneen Collection
Charles Samuel Deneen (Republican) served as a one-term member of the Illinois House of Representatives beginning in 1892. He was born in…
Charles Braden Collection
Charles Johnson Braden served in the U.S. Navy during the early 1900s. These photographs are scenes from Braden's naval service in Asia.
Chicago and Illinois Midland Railroad Collection
The Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway Company began in 1888 as the Pawnee Railroad, running from Pawnee, and later Taylorville, to the Illinois…
Chicago Collection
Photographs in this collection include several images of Chicago landmarks and street scenes.
Chicago Drainage Collection
The Chicago Drainage Collection documents the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal during the 1890s and early 1900s. The canal serves…
Chicago Mill and Lumber Company Collection
Hermann Paepcke founded the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company in the 1880s. Originally begun as the Paepcke-Wagner Company operating as a small lumber…
