Browse Collections (545 total)
Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 03 (February 11-17, 1864)
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Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 04 (February 18-24, 1864)
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Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 05 (February 25-29, 1864)
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Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 06 (March 1-10, 1864)
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Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 07 (March 11-20, 1864)
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Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 08 (March 21-31, 1864)
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Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 09 (April 1-15, 1864)
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Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 10 (April 16-25, 1864)
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Yates Family Papers, Box 15, Folder 11 (April 26-30, 1864)
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Illinois Photographic Collection
The Illinois Photographic Collection contains images from the more than 400,000 photographs and 5,000 broadsides held in the audiovisual collection of…
Illinois State Prisons Collection
This collection consists of historic photographs from three of Illinois’s maximum security prisons, one of which, Joliet, is no longer in…
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,…
Miscellaneous Collection
A selection of photographs from a wide range of collections. Images in the Miscellaneous Collection include broadsides, oversized photographs, cased…
Victor Georg Collection
Victor Emmanuel Georg, a German immigrant, was a nationally recognized artist and photographer who worked out of Chicago and Springfield. One of his…
World War I Collection
The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. Illinois contributed…
Arthur Dubin Collection
Arthur Detmers Dubin (1923-2011) was a Chicago architect, transportation expert, and train enthusiast. Photos in this collection highlight his…
Native American Collection
This collection includes images of Indian chiefs and camp life.
Keeley Institute Collection
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…
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…
Otto Krampikowsky Collection
Otto J. Krampikowsky was a Chicagoan who served in World War I. His collection contains numerous images from the war and the armistice period.
William C. Booth Collection
William C. Booth was a staff sergeant during World War I. These photos depict Boooth's service on the Western Front during the war and armistice…
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.
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.
Kaskaskia Sketches Collection
Kaskaskia was the center of French settlement in Illinois and became the capital of the French territory of Upper Louisiana. Between 1809 and 1818,…
Lincoln Tomb Robbers Collection
Portraits of the men who tried to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln on the night of November 7, 1876.