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Fred and Betty Turner's first annual wood-block print Christmas Card, which featured the Chapel at Fort de Chartres in Prairie Du Rocher, IL.

Inside page of Fred and Betty Turner's first annual wood-block print Christmas Card, which featured the Chapel at Fort de Chartres in Prairie Du Rocher, IL.

Fred and Betty Turner's first annual wood-block print Christmas Card, which featured the Chapel at Fort de Chartres in Prairie Du Rocher, IL.

Aerial view of Fort de Chartres in Prairie Du Rocher, Illinois.

The first known map to include Fort de Chartres. It was done by Francois-Benjamin Dumont De Montigny and incorrectly show four bastions on the fort (the bastions were not included in the first iteration of the fort, but part of later versions).

The Montgolfier brothers' balloon, takes a tethered flight at the garden of the Reveillon workshop, Paris, October 19, 1783.