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Lightning a menace, past and present
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Great Epizootic of 1872 ravaged the horse population
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Extinct passenger pigeon once visitor to Central Illinois
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Bloomington home to world champion singing mouse
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Silos sentinels of Corn Belt since late 19th century
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Adam Bogardus, world champion wing shot
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Beloved ‘Rags’ rode the rails to local fame

Biographies

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Stearles, Willis
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Withers, Allen
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Dillon, Martha Fisher
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Huggins, Sophia
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King, Samuel Noble
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Mayes, John Jackson

Blog

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Bull in Barbershop Hudson, June 19, 1947

Glen Dotson and ‘Sparky’ Towanda, January 1941

Photo of the Week, 2: Don Munson & LaJean, 1968

Photo of the Week, 22: A Little Off the Top

Photo of the Week, 52: Feeding Time at Miller Park Zoo … Brought To You By Stern’s Furniture!

Shirley by Horseback March 5, 1942

Pointer and Setter Club Field Trials, April 1946

Lexington Dog Show July 31, 1940

Ms. Stanberry and Queenie July 21, 1938

Why did the Turkey Cross the Road?

Miller Park Zoo’s newest arrival June 1964

‘Fancy Pants’ Gets a Trim April 1946

Slitherin’ no more Mystery Pic, 1958

Miller Park Fishing Season Underway June 1938

Rudolph the Red-Nosed … Llama? McLean County Christmas, 1958

Bo Peep Has Found Her Sheep Halloween Parade, Bloomington 1938

Freitag children, rural Stanford February 1959

Society Horse Show Fans Field, Bloomington, 1953

Top hog gets pie January 1947

Photo of the Week, 129: Reserve Champions Illinois State Fair, August 17, 1949

Grand Champion Poland China ISNU Farm, January 16, 1947

Photo of the Week, 70: A Real Animal House

Photo of the Week, 108: Beekeeping During Wartime Sugar Shortage

Photo of the Week, 120: Carl Loeseke’s Homing Pigeons, 1938

Photo of the week, 121: Miller Park Fishing Season Underway -- June 1938

Photo of the Week, 130: Dogs of War, 1946 Bella and Her Two Surprises

McHistory: Bloomington’s War on Dogs

Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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Tractors Replace Animal Labor

Nature's Forces

Farm Bureau

Finding Aids

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Dairies Collection

Grand Prairie Bird Alliance Collection

Making a Home

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Mississippian Artifacts and Pottery

Frontier Settlement

Videos

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What Does Fido Know? Inside the Mind of the Dog