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![Trunk Image of Trunk](https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/views_display/public/ISM_Bicen_Immigrant_Trunk.jpg?itok=zPBVpNNX)
Trunk, (c. 1850), used by the Nikolas Daniel Walter family when they came to Illinois from Hanover Province, Germany.
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![WWI helmet; photo of Kent Hagler Photo of WWI helmet; framed photo of Kent Hagler](https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/views_display/public/ISM_Bicen_Soldier_Helmet_0.jpg?itok=M6OEJ0zh)
WWI helmet, (1917) worn by by Kent Hagler (shown in framed image) during his service in France.
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![Bressmer Pharmaceutical bottle. Image of Bressmer Pharmaceutical bottle.](https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/views_display/public/ISM_Bicen_Druggist_Bressmer.jpg?itok=bvCWMACv)
Ca. 1889-1914
Embossed “THE John Bressmer/ Co./ SPRINGFIELD, ILL” and “C.L.G. CO”
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![Broadwell Pharmaceutical bottle. Image of Broadwell Pharmaceutical bottle.](https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/views_display/public/ISM_Bicen_Stuart_Druggist_Bottle.jpg?itok=C52BZmiI)
“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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![Prisoner of war documents. Image of prisoner of war documents.](https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/views_display/public/POW_4936_150.jpg?itok=_mqmE7Tc)
Prisoner of war documents
Wartime nightmare
1942
Illinois State Museum, Illinois Legacy Collection
Gift of Nancy Batchelder Fryxell, 2013.77
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![Telegraph instruments, telegraphy bay at the railway depot in Elizabeth, Illinois. Image of telegraph instruments, telegraphy bay at the railway depot in Elizabeth, Illinois.](https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/views_display/public/EHSTelegraphEqp.jpg?itok=z6HU7Q-c)
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, near Elizabeth, Illinois. Image of cradle Reaper used on the Glenn Droegmiller family farm, near Elizabeth, Illinois.](https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/views_display/public/EHSCradleReaper.jpg?itok=BODwaFQD)
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 Illinois State Senate desk used by Jonh C. McKenzie. Image of original Illinois State Senate desk used by Jonh C. McKenzie.](https://story.illinoisstatemuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/views_display/public/EHSDesk.jpg?itok=4f23y_dn)
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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