SCRC Virtual Museum at Southern Illinois University's Morris Library

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Color photograph of the Samuel Dalton House in Murphysboro, Illinois, part of the General John A. Logan Museum. The photograph was taken during…

Images used to illustrate the Southern Illinois History Exhibit

Stories of Our Land and People Hundreds of millions of years ago, the land that would become Illinois lay south of...

Color illustration of Union soldiers in the foreground, some wounded and some fighting the Confederate soldiers in the background. "BATTLE OF FORT…

Photograph in 1937 of Wes Brady, former slave from Marshall, Texas, from the Library of Congress. Part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves…

A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive Slaves, painted by Eastman Johnson circa 1860s, depicting an African American family fleeing across country on…