Illinois Historic photos, documents, and people

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill.

Group of Glass Workers in Shop 6, Illinois Glass Co. The smallest boy is Polish and does not understand English (Illiterate) I saw him at work just before 1 P.M. Location: Alton, Illinois.

Vincennes, Ind., parade and review, graduating class 43-I cadets from AAF Training Command Pilot School, George Field, Ill., nationally famed George Rogers Clark Memorial in the background

Chicago, Illinois. A girl passenger waking up as the Greyhound bus comes into the city. She came from Knoxville, Tennessee, and is going to Minneapolis to visit a boy in the Army

Illinois Central R.R., freight cars at the South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. The C & O and Nickel Plate Railroads lease part of this terminal from the I.C.R.R.

Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill

The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. In the foreground are old cars used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help; Chicago, Ill.

Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards for analysing solutions of metals used in locomotives and the railroad plant, in general, Chicago, Ill.

My Grandmother Maude Abigail Bacon, seated, in photo taken by her father Charles Smith Bacon. Notice the flowers painted onto the photo. Probably taken between 1900 and 1905

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