Old pictures of Bloomington

c. 1870

PLAYING WITH A MONKEY

1938

A farming family poses in front of their home

1945

A Dutch woman cuts her hair for her affair with a German soldier

1937

Backyard of James Simmons' farmhouse

1938

Waiting for a bus

1912

CON LOS MUERTOS EN LA BATALLA

1910

College Dormitory

1937

A child reaches for a bowl

1857

Abraham Lincoln by Hesler

1889

Cabinet card

1900

Jenkins Juvenile Band

1920

Ronald Reagan's 4th Grade class

1917

Ronald Reagan, (with "Dutch" haircut) Neil Reagan, and parents

1906

Cowboy barber shop

c. 1923

Ronald Reagan

c. 1900

Wendt Jewelry Store

1927

TOBOGGAN

1942

Bud Taylor's Garage and Gas Station

c. 1892

Cabinet card

1945

SUMMER!!

1935

Photographers

1879

Locomotive Engine 53

1900

August Scheele in his grocery store

1899

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 5 MONTHS

c. 1890

Lew Wallace at his home

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1942

Illinois Central railyard

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1936

48 cars in a elevator parking garage in Downtown business district, USA. Built by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company,

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1971

Man on a wild chopper bicycle

1968

Randolph Street

1918

Michigan Avenue

1930

Waiting for the Hockey Match

1890

first electric streetcar

1903

Boston Store

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1960

Children in Chicago

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

1893

Mammoth and Giant Octopus, display at the Columbian World's Fair

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition