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- Collection: Chapin Family Letters of Champaign County
Double exposure photograph meant to depict what happens during a seance
Members of the 84th Illinois Infantry lined up in a row, kneeling.
Abraham Lincoln sits in a wooden chair, legs crossed and leaning forward. He is holding his chin with his index finger and thumb, pensive.
An impoverished man left bereft by a grasshopper plague
Two children fish in a lake on the grounds of a farm, where many workers and horses linger.
A flock of sheep rest in the front yard of a homestead, surrounded by trees with white blossoms in the springtime.
Cattle rest outside of a homestead in summer; a horse team carries a person with a wagon along the dirt road.
A horse team pulling through the front yard of a homestead during the winter.
Cartoon depicting President Johnson as a betrayer to an African American soldier

"Spirit" photograph
84th Illinois Infantry, Company E group portrait
Abraham Lincoln
Adversity/Effect of grass-hoppers coming down
American Harvest Scene
American Homestead: Spring
American Homestead: Summer
American Homestead: Winter
Andrew Johnson's reconstruction and how it works
April 12, 1877