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Illinois During the Gilded Age

'The National Calamity' in the 'Daily Illinois State Register'
'President Andrew Johnson' in the 'Daily Illinois State Journal'
Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln at Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865
'A Distinguished Citizen's and Soldier's Opinion of President Andrew Johnson' in the 'Daily Illinois State Register'
'President Lincoln's Last Speech in Springfield -- Affecting Reminiscence' in the 'Daily Illinois State Register'
'The Latest by Telegraph. Death of President Lincoln. Secretary Seward Still Lives. The Murderers Still at Large. J. Wilkes Booth the Assassin of the President. Andrew Johnson Sworn into Office as President. The President's Body to be Brought to ...
'From Washington. Dispatch from Governor Oglesby to Hon. Jesse K. Dubois' in the 'Daily Illinois State Register'
'The Great National Calamity' in the 'Daily Illinois State Journal'
'Andrew Johnson's Oath of Office' in the 'Daily Illinois State Journal'
'Funeral Services of the Late President' in the 'Daily Illinois State Register'
'From Washington. Death of President Lincoln' in the 'Daily Illinois State Journal'
'Mr. Lincoln's Remains' in the 'Daily Illinois State Journal'
'President Lincoln's Last Speech in Springfield -- Affecting Reminiscence' in the 'Daily Illinois State Journal'
Former Slaves and Wounded Union Veterans Celebrating the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Anti-Radical Republican poster
The Great Country; or, Impressions of America
'Principles of the Democratic Party, Speech of Hon. John A. Logan of Illinois, Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 16th, 1868' in 'The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Second Session Fortieth Congress'
'Civil-Service Reform: An Address Delivered Before the American Social Science Association at its Meeting in New York, in October, 1869' in 'Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis'
The Fifteenth Amendment and Its Results
The Drunkard's Child
Birds Eye View of Chicago as it was Before the Great Fire
The Great Fire at Chicago, Oct. 9, 1871, View From the West Side
Allegorical engraving depicting the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1871
Father Dunne's Letter to the County Commissioners Concerning the Poor Farm
Trumbull White