Illinois Historic photos, documents, and people

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Group of glass workers Shops 6 & 7, Illinois Glass Co. 12:45 P.M. Even the tiny chap on left end of photo was working. He is a Polish boy who cannot understand English. I saw him at work just before 1
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Chicago, Illinois. Private D.N. Danielson, stationed in North Carolina, and Mrs. Danielson, from Minnesota, in the waiting room of the Greyhound bus terminal. They met in Chicago to save time for his f
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Chicago, Illinois. Private D.N. Danielson, stationed in North Carolina, and Mrs. Danielson, from Minnesota, in the waiting room of the Greyhound bus terminal. They met in Chicago to save time for his f
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Chicago, Illinois. Bus passengers in the Greyhound bus terminal's ladies' restroom. Items ranging from soap and nail polish to soda for upset stomachs may be rented from the maid on duty, who owns her
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Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service, Glenview, Ill. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Mrs. Bu
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Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities f
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General view of part of the south Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities f
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Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities
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This daguerreotype is the earliest confirmed photographic image of Abraham Lincoln. It was reportedly made in 1846 by Nicholas H. Shepherd shortly after Lincoln was elected to the United States House o
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