Browse Collections (545 total)
Ragen Collection
The Ragen Collection features images of Joseph Ragen in his professional life. Ragen began his career as a prison warden in 1931 at the Menard County…
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…
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…
Sadorus Family Collection
Henry Sadorus (1783-1878) and his family arrived in Champaign County, Illinois, in 1824, settling along the Kaskaskia River in what is today the town…
Richard Yates, Sr. Collection
Richard Yates, Sr., served as Illinois' thirteenth governor from 1861 through 1865. Prior to serving as governor, Yates was a member of the United…
Etter Family Collection
The Etter Family Collection focuses on the Etter family of Macoupin County, Illinois. The Etter Family came to Illinois in 1826 with the arrival of…
Richard Ogilvie Collection
Governor Richard B. Ogilvie spent his career as a lawyer working in private practice and for the federal government including serving as a special…
Herman H. Kohlsaat Collection
Herman Henry Kohlsaat was born March 22, 1853 in Albion, Edwards County, Illinois, one of six children of Reimer and Sarah (Hall) Kohlsaat. Reimer and…
Dan Reeves Collection
Images in this collection document the aftermath of the 1937 Ohio River flood. The flood, caused by high rain levels in January and February,…
Francis Hoffman Collection
Francis Arnold Hoffmann was born in Hereford, Westphalia, Prussia, and came to the United States to escape conscription. Hoffmann settled in Chicago…
Elmer J. Hoffman Collection
Elmer J. Hoffman, a native of Wheaton, Illinois, began his working life in the DuPage County Sheriff's Office in 1930. He served as the DuPage County…
Robert Hartley Collection
Robert Hartley began his career as a journalist working for the Twin Falls Times-News in Idaho. Among his positions in the newspaper field, he served…
David Felts Collection
David Virgil Felts, a Decatur, Illinois, journalist, was born on January 31, 1900, in Marion, Illinois. Following high school graduation, Felts…
Springfield Typographical Union Collection
The Springfield Typographical Union No. 177 received its charter from the International Typographical Union in Mary 1978. The Springfield…
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…
Reed Collection
The Reed Collection contains images of family members in the Reed, Thurman, and Conlee families from Maquon in Knox County, Illinois, and the…
Vachel Lindsay Collection
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, a major American poet, was born in 1879 at 603 South Fifth Street in Springfield, Illinois to Dr. Vachel Thomas Lindsay and…
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.…
David Davis Collection
David Davis, a lawyer, politician, distinguished jurist and businessman, was born in Maryland, educated at Kenyon College in Ohio, and studied law at…
Nora Belle Hewitt Collection
The Nora Belle Hewitt Collection includes portraits of several members of the Edwards and Hewitt families. James A. Edwards and Lucinda S. Burton…
Moweaqua Collection
The city of Moweaqua, Illinois, located in Shelby County, was a coal mining town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In December 1932 a large…
Stuart-Hall Family Collection
The Stuart-Hall family descends from Robert and Hannah Stuart. Robert, a Presbyterian minister and professor of languages at Transylvania University,…
Reeder Collection
Named for collection donor Warren A. Reeder of Hammond, Indiana, the images in this collection highlight the city of Danville, Illinois in the 1900s.…
King Family Collection
The photographs in this collection include images of churches in Jacksonville and Chicago, Illinois; individual portraits; and postcards from tourist…