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Compare the size of ancient corn cob with modern-day corn.
German transfer print plate provides clues to settler’s origins
Moldboard plow (c. 1830 -1834), made in Connecticut. Illinois Legacy Collection, Gift of the Alan R. Smith family.
Trunk, (c. 1850), used by the Nikolas Daniel Walter family when they came to Illinois from Hanover Province, Germany.
c. 1830s-1860s Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum Transfer from the Illinois State Historical Library, 1997.195
1840 Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum, X-0883