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Undated studio portrait of a young Jane Addams taken by Cox in Chicago.

A photo of a sitting man. "Tintype" by tungstensun is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.

Portrait of the Busey family with Samuel T. Busey and Mary E. Busey

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dean of Library Administration Robert B. Downs.

Portrait of Mary E. Busey drawn by Leal Elementary School student Laura Stewart.

Photograph of Jacob Kaufman

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.

This glass plate negative, along with 200+ others, was
discovered in Everett Block’s attic in 1946.

Photograph shows portrait of Susie King Taylor, who served more than three years as nurse with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, although officially enrolled as a laundress. She also taught children and…