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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.

Published 		Image of core sample of original U.S. Route 66 pavement Published Image of Galena Ore Published
Image of Fidelity Lodge No. 54, I.A. of C.W. Fraternal Ribbon Published Image of The Carbuilder, Pullman-Standard Company publication Published Image of Carpenters Tool Published
Image of Wood Club Published Image of plate fragment recovered from excavations at New Philadelphia, an African-American settlement in western Illinois. Published Image of plate fragment recovered from excavations at New Philadelphia, an African-American settlement in western Illinois. Published
Image of Bressmer Pharmaceutical bottle.

Ca. 1889-1914

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

Published 		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.

Published 		Image of naturalization papers of German native Pangratz Boll. Published
Image of conch shell slave call. Published Image of prisoner of war documents.

Prisoner of war documents
Wartime nightmare
1942
Illinois State Museum, Illinois Legacy Collection
Gift of Nancy Batchelder Fryxell, 2013.77

Published 		Image of brass National Cash Register used in "Bishop's Busy Big Store", Elizabeth, Illinois. Published
Image of telegraph instruments, telegraphy bay at the railway depot in Elizabeth, Illinois.

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

Published 		Image of cradle Reaper used on the Glenn Droegmiller family farm, near Elizabeth, Illinois.

Cradle Reaper used on the Glenn Droegmiller family farm.
used on their Snipe Hollow farm near Elizabeth in NW IL
late 1800s

Published 		Image of original Illinois State Senate desk used by Jonh C. McKenzie.

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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