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Comparison of three views of a photograph of Nora Brooks Blakely at her graduation in front of State Farm Center. Two different presentations of the processed color negative are to the left of an original print.
Illustration of five different types of mushrooms from the Boletus family, many of which feature bright pink stems.
Black-and-white group photograph of the 1898-1899 Lombard College basketball team. Carl Sandburg, at far left in the first row, places his hand on a basketball held by the central player. The players wear long pants and short-sleeved shirts emblazoned with the letter 'L.'
Color illustration of the Cimax Dispar and Cimax Hanbuschii, two winged true bugs. The former is red with yellow and black spots.
A variety of animal motifs, including birds, a lobster, a dog, and a lion, on a grid for use in weaving.
A pop-up card of the Lincoln Memorial as seen through a camera viewfinder.
Detail of a woodblock showing damage, evidenced by lighter wood in contrast to ink-stained wood
2016 view of the interface of the Digital Library, then in beta, when looking at a 1907 Sanborn map of Aledo, Illinois.
Gilt marbled fore-edge of the Catholicon. The marbling is very subtle in this view.
A close up of a halftone map showing moiré (color not inherent to the image itself).
A variety of color targets on a black background. There is a set of large, medium, and small item-level targets at the bottom; a set of medium and small item-level targets on the left; a medium item-level target on the right; and a device-level target in the center.
Bookplate belonging to Sadie E. Onderdonk depicting a woman setting the hand on a large alarm clock under the phrase "TOUT PASSE."
A dual capture digitization system inside a black tent with a light facing forward. The two cameras have black paper bonnets and are pointed downward toward a book.
Title page from the school notebook used for the cookbook of Maria Luisa Sanchez. The school name is Escuela de Pequeñas Industrias del Estado Puebla, the class is Cocina, and the student name is Maria Luisa Sanchez.
Front cover of Das erste Buch für Kinder featuring a red and orange marbled pattern
Title page of Abcedarium Anglico-Latinum
Spatial Frequency Response (SFR) Curve Graphs, the results here of a happy target image illustrated by the smooth data line reaching FADGI 4-star image goal posts.
Blue, red, and white marbled paper with brown discoloration, possibly from heat, surrounding a hole in the right side of the paper.
Map of Canadian Pacific Railway and Connections. The left side of the map is on a white background and has more saturated colors while the left side is on a black background and is more muted.
Handwritten recipe for Helado de Coco in green ink on ruled paper. Ingredients include Leche, Crema, Cocos frescos, Heuvos, Hielo, Sal, and Azucar granulada.
Newspaper clipping from the Black Scrapbook with the headline "In Person: Chicago's Poet Laureate." A portrait of Brooks is in the center of the clipping.
Cover image for video on creating facsimiles reading "Facsimile File Preparation: How to! University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Digitization Services, 2025." Images of the Main Library, Funk ACES, and Grainger Library line the left side of the image.
Detail image of an illuminated manuscript showing gold leaf highlights in the decorated letter and dragon.
Hallway with exhibit cases and signage for the 90 Years of Preservation Exhibit. The Digitization Services case is in the foreground, with a person browsing a different case in the background.
Illustrated guide from Chirlogia showing the meaning of different hand gestures. The page is divided into 24 equal squares, each noted with a letter in the upper left corner. Each square contains a hand(s) in a particular pose and is accompanied by a caption in Latin.
Graphite drawings of six women with short accompanying poems, entitled "Girls" and dated Saturday, April 17, 1937
Black and white photograph of the front entrance of the Main Library under construction, without windows, doors, or roof
Illustration of Phacelia campanularia, blue bell-shaped flowers.
Two pages from a scrapbook. The left page features a handwritten version of the poem "Life and Death" underneath a typewritten version, with a clipping of "Rejoice That You Have What You Have." The right page features a handwritten version of "I Loved You Best" underneath a typewritten version, with a clipping of "Wealth."
Frontispiece of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, featuring a portrait of Phillis Wheatley writing at a desk.
Front of Cupid's revenge, or, An account of a king who slighted all women, and at length was forced to marry a beggar. Heavy text loss is apparent.
Two hands holding white bone folders at the corner of a green book.
Book plate for Stanley Keller featuring a black-and-white image of a snake coming from the center of an open book lit by candlelight.
Blue marbled endpaper
Black and white photograph of a man leaning out over a balcony to watch the Blackstone Rangers and the Disciples mobilizing under the Chicago "L" tracks in, April 7th, 1968.