Browse Collections (545 total)
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…
Constitutional Convention Collection
The move to call the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention to adopt the first new state constitution since 1870 gained momentum when the after the…
John Oglesby Collection
John Gillett Oglesby was the third child born to Illinois Governor Richard Oglesby and, his second wife, Emma Gillett Keays Oglesby.He was born in…
United Transportation Union Collection
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began in mid-nineteenth century as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The organization's…
Commission for New York World's Fair Collection
The Commission of New York World's Fair Collection features several images of the Illinois Pavilion and its visitors. The theme of the pavilion was…
Kankakee State Hospital Collection
The Kankakee State Hospital originally opened in 1879 as the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane under the Board of State Commissioners of Public…
Ulysses S. Grant Collection
Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, in 1822. He attended West Point and served in the Mexican-American War under General Zachary…
Denver Post Historical Collection
Photographs in this collection include photos featuring several Illinoisians in the news including victorious United States Senate candidate James…
Fluorspar Mining Collection
The fluorspar-rich region of southeastern Illinois served as a home for several mines, making Illinois the leading producer of fluorspar in the United…
Fort Massac Collection
Fort Massac was built in 1757 by the French military during the French and Indian War. The fort was named for French Naval Minister Claud Louis…
Richard J. Daley Collection
Richard J. Daley served as the mayor of Chicago from 1955-1976. Prior to his mayoral election, Daley served in the Illinois House of Representatives…
Elmer Garrett Collection
The Civilian Conservation Corps, founded in 1933, was a New Deal program which offered unksilled manual labor jobs for unmarried men aged 17-28 during…
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…
Illinois State Historical Society Centennial Business Program Collection
Photographs in this collection feature historic businesses and monuments including the Lovejoy Monument and the W. A. Wieboldt & Company…
H. V. Arnberg Collection
The photographs in this collection include images Works Progress Administration construction projects in Aurora, Wheaton, Elmhurst, and Naperville. H.…
Hankammer Collection
The Hankammer Studio was the photography studio of George Hankammer located in Belleville, Illinois.Photographs in this collection include images of…
Yates Family Collection
The Yates Family includes two Illinois Governors, Richard Yates, Sr. (1861-1865) and Richard Yates, Jr. (1901-1905). Each of these men went on to…
Richard Yates, Jr. Collection
Richard Yates, Jr., the son of Governor Richard Yates, Sr., was elected Governor of Illinois in 1901. Governor Yates, Jr. worked to secure…
Illinois State Historical Library Collection
The Illinois State Historical Library was founded in 1889. The organization moved under the governance of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency…
Paul Powell Collection
Paul Powell served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1935 through 1964, representing the fifty-first and then fifty-ninth districts.…
Christopher Columbus Augur Papers Collection
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Woodward Family Collection
Dr. Benjamin Woodward served as a surgeon in the Illinois 22nd Infantry during the Civil War, enlisting at the age of 51. He married Amanda Hargin and…
Samuel Witwer Collection
Samuel Witwer grew up in Gary, Indiana before attending Dickinson College and then Harvard Law School. After finishing school, he moved Chicago to…
Arthur Wines Collection
The Arthur Wines Collection is named for Arthur Frederick Wines, the third of eight children born to Frederick H. Wines and Mary Frances Hackney…
Wilson and Gross Collection
The Wilson and Gross Collection contains several family photographs including group and individual portraits of members of both the Wilson and Gross…