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Quarter-plate tintype photograph of Sergeant Tom Strawn of Company B, 3rd U.S. Colored Troops Heavy Artillery Regiment, with revolver in front of painted backdrop showing balustrade and landscape.

Seal of Illinois, adopted March 7, 1867. Center image extracted from Illinois flag.

Photograph of Sand Cave in Shawnee National Forest (Pope, Illinois) forest (37.5°N 88.667°W; NARA geographical record).

Color photograph of the Samuel Dalton House in Murphysboro, Illinois, part of the General John A. Logan Museum. The photograph was taken during the Living History event, October 6, 2018.Born a slave, Samuel H. Dalton worked as a field hand in Bolivar…

Cropped image from a photograph of two men, possibly from Alpha Phi Omega, with six pet Salukis.

Saline spring off of Salt Well Road west of Shawneetown in Equality Township, Gallatin County, Illinois, photographed by Nyttend. The Illinois Salines were the only location where slavery was legal in pre-Civil War Illinois.

Color photograph of a Kings Own 8th button replica, included in Dr. Mark Wagner's Preliminary Report on 2017 SIU Carbondale Archaeological Field School Investigations at Ft. Kaskaskia State Park, Randolph County, Illinois.

Photograph of the reconstructed gatehouse of Fort de Chartres in Illinois.

View of Pulliam Clock Tower through trees on the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus, photographed by Bradley Furlow.

Illustration of Rhamphorhynchus and Pterodactylus by Heinrich Harder, circa 1916.