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A group photo of young men from Pekin, Illinois, before joining the military in WWII. Euguene Taylor is 4th from the left in the back row. Taylor would go on to serve in the Marines during WWII. The photo is part of Taylor's wartime collection.

This is a cigarette lighter, probably from the 1940s. It may have been used in WWII. It was acquired at an antique shop.

Images regarding Roger E. Chapin and his father, E.L. Chapin, and their involvement with the aftermath of the 1908 Springfield Race Riots. Roger, Nancy Chapin's father-in-law, was a member of the National Guard unit that responded to the Race Riots…

This button commemorates the 1988 Republican National Convention, held in New Orleans, Louisiana. The phrase "Duke'n Out Duke" may refer to George Deukmejian, California's 35th Governor who, at the 1988 GOP National Convention, anticipated the…

The photo is accompanied by a short excerpt explaining the founding and expansion of the Springfield Hospital and Training School. This hospital would later become Memorial Medical Center.

Multiple public records as well as a family bible entry that prove the Snow family lived across the street from Abraham Lincoln.

Cloth overlaid and defined with charcoal to replicate the headstone of a Civil War Soldiers headstone located in Camp Butler Illinois. Veteran's headstone belongs to a Joseph Maxwell and was a member of the 29th United States Coloured Infantry. Piece…

A magazine article talking about the changes in the growth of minorities in the Illinois State Police force in the 1970s.

Picture of U.S. Marshall Robert Moore and Vice President Dick Cheney at the White House.

Joe Pecoraro and his sibling visiting the Bozo the Clown Show in April of 1979.