Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections

We are digital newspaper archive based out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! This is our blog for all of the wacky, beautiful, interesting, or inspiring things we find in our collections!   ...

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Have a nice break, everyone, and a Happy New Year!

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Happy Halloween! Watch out for ghosts! 

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Aviators completed the first flight around the world on this day, September 28, 1924. The flight took them 175 days.

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Standard Oil, 1951

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“How you can be a campus queen” 1951

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The Day Book, 1917

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“Hail to the Woman” 1922

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Spring dresses, 1921

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The Broadway Belles, 1921

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“In Fairyland: Her First Appearance” New York Clipper 1881

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The Eagle Variety Theater, New York, 1875

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In the August 1, 1922 edition of Better Farming

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Advertisement for the Ringling Brothers’ Circus in Player magazine, 1913.

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The “fuel values” of foods brought to you by The Domestic Science Department in the Farmer’s Wife magazine, August 1911.

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Vintage Valentine posted in the Farmer’s Wife magazine, 1911.