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Photoelectric relay made at Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, with the cooperation of the General Electric Co., and photoelectric cells by R. J. Cashman and W. S. Huxford, 1933. Courtesy of the Adler Planetarium.
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General Grant on Horseback
ca. 1880-1888
hand-carved and painted wood
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Earl Richards, Springfield, Illinois
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Ca. 1889-1914
Embossed “THE John Bressmer/ Co./ SPRINGFIELD, ILL” and “C.L.G. CO”
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“Meet me at Broadwell’s.”
They said this in “Young Mr. Lincoln’s” time – and they say it today.
~“Young Mr. Lincoln” was a theater production advertised in 1939.
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Jeanne d'Aire , Burgher of Calais, modeled 1884-1889, reduction model 1895, cast May 1945
artist: Auguste Rodin; (1840 – 1917, French)
patinated bronze
1949.21, Gift of the French Merci Train, from a prior purchase from the Rodin Museum in 1948 by Noilly-Prat et Cie
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Installed by the Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad in 1888, which became the Chicago Great Western Railway in 1892, then the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad in 1968, abandoned in 1972
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Cradle Reaper used on the Glenn Droegmiller family farm.
used on their Snipe Hollow farm near Elizabeth in NW IL
late 1800s
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original desk from the floor of the Illinois State Senate
This desk was from the original furniture purchased and used in the current Senate Chamber of the State Capitol Building in Springfield.
circa 1888 - 1900
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c. 1884
Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum
Gift of the Sangamon State University Foundation, 1995.242.68
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(born 1888, Andretta, Italy, died 1965, Chicago IL)
1909 (original plaster), bronze cast 1996, edition of 6
Bronze
Illinois Legacy Collection, 2006.108, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Joel Dryer
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