Illinois Historic photos, documents, and people

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Greetings from New Salem State Park, Lincoln's New Salem, Illinois -- Wagon Wheel Inn, Rutledge Tavern, Berry-Lincoln store

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Chicago, Illinois. Passengers, homeward bound from vacations, comparing postcards and souvenirs while they wait for the bus

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1st Grade Class in Tuscola School, Tuscola, Illinois. My father, John Parker, is in the first row, the first on the right.

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Sunshine Cleaners, Rockford's finest cleaning plant, main call office at plant, 10,000 garment capacity cold storage vault

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My father, John Parker, in his May Day costume. The custom for 4th Graders in the Tuscola School, Tuscola, Illinois. 1920

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Mandel Assembly Hall to right, Botany Building (Hull Biological Laboratories) to left, University of Chicago,Chicago, Ill.

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Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. General view of Proviso yard

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Chicago, Illinois. A girl who is waiting between buses in the ladies' lounge at four a.m. in the Greyhound bus terminal

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John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, at Corwith yard, Santa Fe RR trip, Chicago, Ill.