Browse Collections (545 total)
Frank Ward Holt Collection
Frank Ward Holt was a soldier during World War I, fighting with Company H of the 129th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force. During his military…
Franklin Roudybush Collection
Franklin Roudybush was a member of the foreign service. He received assignments for several positions including consular attache in Strasbourg and in…
Frederick E. Ransom Sketchbooks
Frederick E. Ransom Sketchbook
French-Wicker Family Collection
The French-Wicker Collection features Illinois Governor Augustus C. French, his son-in-law Cassius M. Wicker, and their families and colleagues.…
Garrison Collection
The Garrison Collection contains images of the Dr. Peter and Barthena Garrison family of Coles and Clark counties. People featured in this collection…
George Davenport Collection
George Davenport was a fur trader in Illinois who established the city of Rock Island, Illinois. Davenport fought in the United States Army during the…
George Thor Collection
Chicagoan George Thor was an auto mechanic during the 1920s and 30s. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
Glandon-Coley Collection
Images from Pike County and other areas of central Illinois.
Goforth Collection
The Goforth Collection contains images of Helen Boomer Goforth and her family. Helen Cecile Boomer Goforth was born May 31, 1877, one of four children…
Graves Family Collection
The Graves Family Collection includes portraits of several members of the Willard Graves family. Willard Graves earned his fortune in South America…
Griswold Family Collection
Photographs from the Griswold family of White Hall, Greene County, Illinois.
Guy Mathis Collection
These photographs are only a few of some 1,700 images in the Guy Mathis Collection. Mathis, a pioneering Illinois photographer and automobile dealer,…
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…
Hanley Family Collection
The Hanley Family Collection includes images of Mary Ann Hanley Nelson and her family. Photographs in this collection include portraits of her husband…
Harold R. Heaton Collection
Harold R. Heaton worked as a political cartoonist for several Chicago-based newspapers including the Chicago Daily Tribune (1885-1899) and the…
Hearst Newspaper Strike Collection
The Hearst Corporation, founded by William Randolph Hearst, became the largest media conglomerate in the world in the 1920s, and has had continued…
Heath Family (Heath Candy) Collection
Lawrence Seymore (L. S.) Heath purchased a confectionary in Robinson, Illinois, in 1914. After observing his sons' success running the confectionary,…
Hector Honoré Collection
Hector V. Honoré, Jr., was a sprint car driver, mechanic, and owner with the Midwest Dirt Track Racing Association and the International Motor…
Henry Horner Collection
Governor Henry Horner (1933-1940) was elected in 1932 and reelected in 1936; however, he died in office during the third year of his second term.…
Herbert Georg Collection
Photographs in this collection include images of agricultural scenes, Coca-Cola delivery drivers on their routes, Illinois politicians, and individual…
Herbert Wells Fay Collection
Herbert Wells Fay (1859-1949) was a newspaper editor, collector of Lincolniana, and custodian of the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery in…