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Image of ancient corn cob and modern-day corn.

Compare the size of ancient corn cob with modern-day corn.

 Rush-seat chair
Image of Checker Board Quilt
Image of Trunk

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

 Image of Jet Brooch

Jet Brooch, (c. 1861 -1868), M.W. Galt & Bro, Jewelers, purchased in Washington D.C. by Sally Logan Lamon.

 Image of German Staffordshire Plate

German transfer print plate provides clues to settler’s origins
Image of Staffordshire Plates Image of The Greater Prairie Chicken Image of Dwarf Chinkapin Oak
Image of Prairie Cicada Image of Bird Egg Collection
 
Field guide to common birds: Top row l to r: American goldfinch, brown thrasher, downy woodpecker, gray catbird. Center row: blue jay, Carolina wren, house wren, baltimore oriole. Bottom row: Great crested flyatcher, northern cardinal, American robin, song sparrow.
 Image of Oil painting on canvas, Edward Richardson Jr., self-portrait
Image of Anna Pottery Cemetery Urn Image of Death Portrait of Charlotta Richardson Image of plate fragment recovered from excavations at New Philadelphia, an African-American settlement in western Illinois.

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