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Compare the size of ancient corn cob with modern-day corn.
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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.
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Moldboard plow (c. 1830 -1834), made in Connecticut. Illinois Legacy Collection, Gift of the Alan R. Smith family.
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WWI helmet, (1917) worn by by Kent Hagler (shown in framed image) during his service in France.
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“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
Wartime nightmare
1942
Illinois State Museum, Illinois Legacy Collection
Gift of Nancy Batchelder Fryxell, 2013.77
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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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