Search for Objects

Use the filters below to search for objects of interest.

Results

Image of Brass Tomahawk Pipe Published 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.

Published 		Image of Moldboard plow

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

Published
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 The Carbuilder, Pullman-Standard Company publication 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 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 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 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

Published 		Image of images of Joliet Prison life. Published Image of wax figurines of outstanding Illinois women.

c. 1920s
Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum
Transfer from the Illinois State Historical Library,1970.28

Published
Image of firemarks.

c. 1830s-1860s
Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum
Transfer from the Illinois State Historical Library, 1997.195

Published 		Image of canal script.

1840
Illinois Legacy Collection, Illinois State Museum, X-0883

Published 		Image of parachute wedding dress.

1982
Illinois State Museum, Illinois Legacy Collection
Gift of Nancy Batchelder Fryxell, 2013.77

Published

Pages