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Urbana and Champaign Institute [Fred H. Turner Woodblock print].jpg
Woodblock print of Urbana and Champaign Institute created for Christmas cards for Fred H. Turner's friends and family.

Centennial Tree Invite009.jpg
Promotional buttons for the 1967 Centennial Trees Project, which was launched to in honor of the 100th anniversary of the University of Illinois.

Vermilion_wabashrivermap.png
The Salt Fork is the southern prong of the three forks that make up the Vermilion River.

Inside a horsecar.jpg
The interior of the horsecar on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.

Horsecar at GRPM.jpg
Horsecar with model horse at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.

Horsecar.jpg
Mid-Late 19th Century Horsecar in Grand Rapids, MI

Urbana Railroad Company Cars 1869.png
These horse-drawn cars would travel back and forth between the Champaign County Courthouse in Urbana and the Doane House in Champaign every 70 minutes.

JO  Cunningham.jpg
Portrait of local judge and historian Joseph O. Cunningham

HM Russell.jpg
H. M. Russell owned a horse-bus (omnibus) company with John Gere that people used to travel from Urbana to West Urbana before the Urbana Railroad Line was installed.

Doane House.jpg
The Doane House was a hotel, restaurant, and meeting place as well as the ICRR depot in Champaign. This was the final stop for the Urbana Railroad Company cars before they returned to the Champaign County Courthouse in Urbana.
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