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Portrait of Union soldiers serving with Company H of the 196th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment posing in a camp in Springfield, Illinois, October 10, 1864.

Source: Missouri History Museum.

Portrait of Union artillerymen of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment posing in their dining hall in Camp Smith in Cairo, Illinois, 1861. The roof of the structure was made from the shell of a decayed sycamore tree.

View of the parlor of G. Ronnsaville's house on LaSalle Street in Chicago, Illinois, c. 1800′s. By C. Allgeier.

Source: New York Public Library.

View of a courthouse which was gutted by fire during the Great Chicago Fire, 1871. By J. Bullock.

Source: New York Public Library.

Carte de visite view of a street in Springfield, Illinois, c. 1860′s. By Preston Blair.

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken during the Republican State Convention in Decatur, Illinois, May 9, 1860. By Edward A. Barnwell.

Ambrotype portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Danville, Illinois, May 1857. By Amon T. Joslin.

Portrait of musicians possible militiamen posing in a street in Momence, Illinois, 1864. By J. B. Hamilton.

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View of the rubble of a destroyed courthouse in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire in Chicago, Illinois, 1871. By Jex Bardwell.

Portrait of a group posing on the porch of C. C. Merrill's house in Galesburg, Illinois.

Hand-colored ambrotype view of a fire in the distance across a river in which a steamer named Rock Island is visible possibly taken in Illinois or Iowa.

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Mourners in line to see Abraham Lincoln lying in state in the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois, May 1865. By Ridgway Glover. Animated stereoview.

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View of a large crowd mourning the death of President Abraham Lincoln in Court House Square a few days after his assassination in Bloomington, Illinois, April 1865. By J.R. Tankersley.

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View of flooding in Cairo, Illinois, 1862.

Two African American reverends posing with Abraham Lincoln’s horse named Old Robin in front of Lincoln’s house in Springfield, Illinois, shortly after Lincoln’s assassination c. 1865. By F.W. Ingmire.

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Carte de visite of a group of Confederate POWs in the Union prison camp at Rock Island Prison Barracks in Illinois during the Civil War.

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Tintype copy of a lost negative profile portrait of President-elect Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, February 9, 1861. By Christopher S. German.

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