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Image of Brass crucifix

Brass crucifix LaSalle Co., ~ 300 years old

 Image of Brass Tomahawk Pipe Image of Photoelectric Relay.

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.
Image of Moldboard plow

Moldboard plow (c. 1830 -1834), made in Connecticut. Illinois Legacy Collection, Gift of the Alan R. Smith family.

Image of Trunk

Trunk, (c. 1850), used by the Nikolas Daniel Walter family when they came to Illinois from Hanover Province, Germany.

 Photo of WWI helmet; framed photo of Kent Hagler

WWI helmet, (1917) worn by by Kent Hagler (shown in framed image) during his service in France.
Image of core sample of original U.S. Route 66 pavement Image of Galena Ore Image of Fidelity Lodge No. 54, I.A. of C.W. Fraternal Ribbon
Image of The Carbuilder, Pullman-Standard Company publication Image of Carpenters Tool Image of Wood Club
Image of plate fragment recovered from excavations at New Philadelphia, an African-American settlement in western Illinois. Image of plate fragment recovered from excavations at New Philadelphia, an African-American settlement in western Illinois. Image of Bressmer Pharmaceutical bottle.

Ca. 1889-1914

Embossed “THE John Bressmer/ Co./ SPRINGFIELD, ILL” and “C.L.G. CO”

Image of Broadwell Pharmaceutical bottle.

“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.

Image of naturalization papers of German native Pangratz Boll. Image of conch shell slave call.

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