This is a picture of Starved Rock, ‘The Gilbraltar of
Illinois’. According to tradition, in 1722, some Indians were
marooned here on top of the rock by Fox Indians, but were rescued
by some Frenchmen. Among the Potawa-tomie Indians, legend has it
that a part of the Illinois tribe was besieged on the rock and
starved into submission and annihilated; thus Starved Rock acquired
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A postcard photo of an old threshing rig sent to us by Fern. The only thing known about the picture is that the man who owned it (I think Fern means the rig) was Joe Stuck, McClure, Pennsylvania.
Fern
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Picture taken at the 1967 Old Time Steam Threshing Bee at New Lenox, Illinois, of a Cooper Steam Engine made in 1876.
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This is a steroscope picture and is a relatively new feature of this magazine and will have a different picture each issue. This is the sixth time it has been presented. If you will cut it out on the heavy lines and paste on light cardboard with rubber ce
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H.S. Curtis Rig, Palouse, Washington 1909
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An old time CB&Q mail train which was in Princeton a few years ago for a Show.
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