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Illinois During the Gilded Age

Former Slaves and Wounded Union Veterans Celebrating the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Smith, Carter, ed. American Historical Images on File: Key Issues in Constitutional History. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
Anti-Radical Republican poster
Smith, Carter, ed. American Historical Images on File: Key Issues in Constitutional History. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
The Fifteenth Amendment and Its Results
Smith, Carter, ed. American Historical Images on File: Key Issues in Constitutional History. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
Birds Eye View of Chicago as it was Before the Great Fire
Northern Illinois University, Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with boats on water in foreground, and key to forty-nine locations
Allegorical engraving depicting the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1871
Smith, Carter, ed. American Historical Images on File: Key Issues in Constitutional History. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
Father Dunne's Letter to the County Commissioners Concerning the Poor Farm
Joiner History Room, Sycamore, Illinois Public Library
Trumbull White
White, Trumbull. Silver and Gold, or Both Sides of the Sheild. Philadelphia: Publishers Union, 1895, Northern Illinois University