Category Archives: Photos and photosets

Bunn School cooking class, 1910 (photo)

A cooking class at Bunn School, circa 1910. The school was at 12th and Division streets. (Photo: Sangamon Valley Collection)

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Camp Dunne, 1916 (photo)

This entry was corrected and expanded in 2024. Camp Dunne was a temporary mustering facility at the Illinois State Fairgrounds prior to the United States’ entry into World War I during the military callup that followed Pancho Villa’s raid of … Continue reading

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Children’s physical exams, 1914 (Springfield Survey photo)

The Springfield Survey was a massive study of local schools, prisons, and other institutions undertaken in 1914 by the Russell Sage Foundation with the help of hundreds of local volunteers. Topics covered included schools, care of “mental defectives, the insane … Continue reading

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Courthouse and Marine Bank, 1860 (drawing)

The Sangamon County Courthouse (left) and the Marine Fire and Insurance Co., on the east side of what is now the Old Capitol Plaza, in an 1860 lithograph. (Source: Here I Have Lived, Paul Angle; reprinted in Aristocracy Hill survey … Continue reading

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‘The Old Hay Market’ (photo)

Springfield’s hay market once was on the northwest corner of Seventh and Jefferson streets. In the background is the pre-1927 Springfield Police Station. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, reprinted in Fever River Research’s study of the proposed site of the Abraham … Continue reading

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Lincoln Home, 1918

One of 25 sketches by Lester Hornby that are included in Lincoln in Illinois by Octavia Roberts (1918). Hornby, a founder of the Rockport (Me.) Art Colony, was an illustrator, lithographer, watercolor artist and war correspondent in World War I. … Continue reading

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Lincoln-Herndon law office building, 1886 (photo)

Abraham Lincoln shared offices on the third floor of this building at Sixth and Adams streets with two of his three law partners — Stephen T. Logan, 1843-44, and William H. Herndon from 1844 to 1860. The second floor housed … Continue reading

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Paving crew, early 1900s (photo)

A paving crew, nearly all African Americans, installs brick paving in the 300 block of East Lawrence Avenue. The work apparently took place sometime after 1904, since the Dana-Thomas House (then Susan Lawrence Dana’s home), far left, appears to be … Continue reading

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Radio brings the 1929 World Series to Springfield (photo)

A group of men listens to the World Series by radio at A. Dirksen & Sons furniture store, 412 E. Washington St., on Oct. 29, 1929. The Philadelphia Athletics, under Connie Mack, won the game, 3-2, and the series, 4 … Continue reading

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Refrigerator delivery, ca. 1930 (photo)

Norge Rollator refrigerators delivered and waiting to be installed at the Plaza Apartments, 1000-18 S. Seventh St., in about 1930. (Sangamon Valley Collection)

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