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  • Collection: Southern Illinois History

1s02991u_home_guard_crop.jpg
Photograph printed as a part of a stereograph showing a group of women kneeling and standing in formation, holding long pointed sticks or spears, forming a unit of White Mountain rangers "home guards".

Wes_Brady,_ex-slave,_Marshall_edited.jpg
Photograph in 1937 of Wes Brady, former slave from Marshall, Texas, from the Library of Congress. Part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections, and…

Rattler_tinclad.jpg
Photograph of the tinclad Union gunboat USS Rattler.

USS_General_Bragg.jpg
Black and white photograph of the USS General Bragg (1862-1865), probably photographed at Cairo or Mound City, Illinois, circa 1862-63. Two small tugs are fitting out at left. USS Maria Denning (1861-62) is offshore at right.

US Army 2nd Infantry button circa 1802 Fort Kaskaskia crop.tif
US Army 2nd Infantry button, circa 1802, discovered during archaeological research at Fort Kaskaskia.

Trilobite_Heinrich_Harder.jpg
Illustration of trilobites created by Heinrich Harder around 1916.

Tri-State_Tornado_Damage_Baptist_Church_at_Murphysboro,_IL.jpg
Tri-State Tornado damage to the Baptist Church at Murphysboro, IL, 1925.

Bull_Fork_Ordovician_OH.jpg
Trace fossils from the Bull Fork Formation (Upper Ordovician), Caesar Creek, Ohio, collected by Curtis Davies.

The_Trapper's_Bride.jpg
Illustration of a fur trader with his Native American bride and her tribe, painted by Alfred Jacob Miller.

Pyrric Victory Puck Logan centerfold.jpg
The pyrrhic victory of the Mulligan guards in Maine by Joseph Keppler for Puck magazine, assailing the 1884 Republican presidential ticket of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan, and criticizing support from Frederick Douglass. The illustration shows…
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