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| Date: | 04 01 1915 |
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| Description: | Old man wearing a suit and hat with his back against a brick wall. The man is likely an employee at International Harvester's Osborne Works. One of his leg... |
| Date: | 03 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Helen Slinde modeling "Marlene Dietrich" trousers suit and Mary Lou Kaltenbach modeling a dress suit with fur piece. Both are wearing hats and gloves. |
| Date: | 08 19 1940 |
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| Description: | Dr. William Reese, a Welsh tenor, and song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
| Date: | 08 03 1916 |
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| Description: | A man in worn overalls and a dark cap is standing outside a brick building. The man is most likely a factory worker at International Harvester's McCormick ... |
| Date: | 09 27 1953 |
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| Description: | Richard and Ruth Shackleford posing with a prize white mink outside of the small animal house at 2105 Herrick Drive. Richard, a member of the U.W. genetics... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea... |
| Date: | 11 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle and Australian Captain William (Bill) A. Money, chat on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). In t... |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| Description: | Gag photo of Robert Doyle with his head seemingly sticking out of a box. Above the box is a sign that reads: "TRASH BOX." The box and sign are attached to ... |
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| Description: | Everybody was wonderful Stars kept rising, pink and gold Trailing threads of breathless music barely out of reach Hand to hand around the n... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A man in a uniform stands beside a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) truck. The photograph is annotated as: "The Gravy Boat." There is a building in the ba... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a man posing sitting in a cart pulled by a team of two horses. Location identified as near the railroad depot looking northeast, with t... |
| Date: | 10 25 1940 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite with a photograph of a painting by James R. Stuart. It depicts two white-haired, bearded shoemakers, with Langford on the left and his part... |
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| Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is standing outdoors and posing with Aqua Form, a local invention. She is standing on colored gravel next to a building with ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sid with an 8x10 view camera in front of a building in the winter. Sid is wearing a coat and a dark cloth over his shoulder and holding an 8x10... |
| Date: | 05 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Maurice Reese, left and Gov. Vernon Thomson standing outdoors. Reese is division manager for the Federal Life Insurance Company, and has announced that he ... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and posing outdoor in front of a building. He is wearing eyeglasses. Caption reads: "Todd Little, organizer — Champaign-Urbana, IL." |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing and posing in front of a building. Caption reads: "Liz Welsh, organizer from Washington, D.C." |
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| Description: | A man, perhaps the pilot, is standing in front of a seaplane. The plane is sitting in an open-sided building, with a view of water in the background. |
| Date: | 04 22 1915 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat, jacket, and pants is standing outdoors in the factory yard. In the background are railroad cars on an elevated platform, with a brick ... |
| Date: | 05 19 1916 |
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| Description: | Elderly man, in business suit, smiling and posing on stairs near an entrance to a brick factory building. |
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