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Portrait of H. M. Russell
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.
Plat of Survey of Stone Arch Bridge
Plat of survey of the Stone Arch Bridge by Champaign surveyor Thomas B. Jordan.
Mid-Late 19th Century Horsecar
Mid-Late 19th Century Horsecar in Grand Rapids, MI
Joseph O. Cunningham Portrait
Portrait of local judge and historian Joseph O. Cunningham
Inside page of Turners' 1951 Silver Creek Bridge Christmas Card
Inside page of Fred and Betty Turner's sixth annual wood-block print Christmas Card, which featured the Urbana Railroad Company's Silver Creek Bridge, also known as the Stone Arch Bridge.
Inside of a horsecar
The interior of the horsecar on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.
ICRR Advertisement from the St. Louis Pictorial Advertiser, 1858-59
This Illinois Central Railroad advertisement is similar to the one the Turner's mentioned in their history of the Silver Creek bridge from the 1856 edition of the St. Louis Pictorial Advertiser.
Horsecar with model horse
Horsecar with model horse at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.
Champaign County Courthouse, 1859-1900.
This was the fourth Champaign County Courthouse and was in use from 1859 until 1900 when the building was redesigned by Urbana architect Joseph Royer.
Bird's Eye View of the City of Champaign County 1869
Bird’s Eye View of the City of Champaign Looking from the Southeast