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Seven images compose this item. One is a plaque on the wall of the second floor Seymour Library. It is bronze colored and metallic and reads, from top to bottom, with each quote written in all caps and on a separate line: "Eastman Exhibit Area," "in…

A color print originally on a postcard. A large gathering of people dressed in 1800s fashion, with a man standing on a wagon in the forefront. They are standing in front of a building with an American flag flying on top of it, and a banner across the…

A dark grey, well-polished, obelisk-shaped grave about 2-3 feet wide at its narrowest point and at least 5 feet tall. The name Gale is carved from the rock of the base. It is positioned in well-mowed grass at least 4 feet from all nearest graves

Newer grave of Susan Richardson found in Hope Cemetery in Galesburg,IL.

A group of Knox students stands in the Green Oaks prairie in bright yellow fire protective shirts. They smile as they paint their faces with the ash of the prairie fire in stripes across their cheeks, nose, and forehead. Their facepaint mimics war…

Carved wood chair with slightly faded red velvet upholstery, located next to a brick fireplace.

A chair that President Abraham Lincoln sat in after the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate in 1858. The chair now resides in the Alumni Room in Knox College's Old Main building.

The Mausoleum in Galesburg’s Hope Cemetery is a symbol of how class divides persist beyond death, despite the myth that we are all equal in death. The vault is a prominent building in the back of the cemetery that houses about 500 people’s corpses,…

Monument to Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke (1817-1901) on the lawn of the Knox County Courthouse in Galesburg, Illinois to her service as a field nurse in the American Civil War.