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The Alumnus. (Alumni Association of Augustana College, 1892), by Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North America and Ill.). Alumni Association Augustana College (Rock Island (page images at HathiTrust)
The Augustana observer. (Augustana College Lyceum, 1902), by Ill.) Augustana College (Rock Island (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Augustana College and Theological Seminary (Rock Island, Ill.)

Minnen från jubelfesten : program, predikningar och tal vid Augustana colleges och Augustana-synodens femtio års-jubileum den 5-15 juni 1910. (Augustana Book Concern, 1911), by Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North America and Ill.) Augustana College and Theological Seminary (Rock Island (page images at HathiTrust)
Address at the dedication of the new college building of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ills., June 12, 1889. (Kansas Pub. House, 1889), by Carl Swensson (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical sketch of Augustana College and Theological Seminary, located at Rock Island, Ill. (Chicago, Ill., 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Augustana College and Theological Seminary (Rock Island, Ill.) -- Registers

Augustana alumni register (Rock Island, Ill., Alumni association of Augustana college and theological seminary, 1924), by Ill.). Alumni association Augustana College and Theological Seminary (Rock Island (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Rock Island High School (Rock Island, Ill.) -- Students -- Periodicals

The Watch tower (Rock Island High School, 1910), by Ill.) Rock Island High School (Rock Island (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Villa de Chantal (Rock Island, Ill.)

Days and deeds (Villa de Chantal, 1915), by Ill.) Villa de Chantal (Rock Island (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Education -- Rock Island (Ill.) -- Curricula

Present-day problems (Rock Island, 1940), by Rock Island (Ill.). High School and John H. Shantz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Express highways -- Rock Island (Ill.)

Riverfront improvements, expressway & parking facilities, industrial & commercial developments, riverfront part : exploratory report, city of Rock Island, Illinois. (Kansas City, 1960), by Needles Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Illinois -- Description and travel

Illinois As It Is, by Frederick Gerhard (page images at MOA)
Summer Rambles in the West, by E. F. Ellet (page images at MOA)
A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)
Wau-Bun, The Early Day in the Northwest, by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
A true picture of emigration: or Fourteen years in the interior of North America (G. Berger; [etc., etc., 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (page images at HathiTrust)
The geography of Illinois (University of Chicago Press, 1921), by Douglas C. Ridgley (page images at HathiTrust)
The far West, or, A tour beyond the mountains : embracing outlines of western life and scenery ; sketches of the prairies, rivers, ancient mounds, early settlements of the French, etc. (Harper & Bros., 1838), by Edmund Flagg (page images at HathiTrust)
The houseboat book; the log of a cruise from Chicago to New Orleans (The Clinic publishing company, 1904), by W. F. Waugh (page images at HathiTrust)
Personal narratives of travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky : and of a residence in the Illinois Territory: 1817-1818 (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1906), by Elias Pym Fordham and Frederic Austin Ogg (page images at HathiTrust)
A true picture of emigration (The Lakeside press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1936), by Rebecca Burlend, Milo Milton Quaife, and Edward Burlend (page images at HathiTrust)
Life in prairie land. (Harper & brothers, 1846), by Eliza W. Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois in 1837; : a sketch descriptive of the situation, boundaries, face of the country, prominent districts, prairies, rivers, minerals, animals, agricultural productions, public lands, plans of internal improvement, manufactures, &c., of the state of Illinois: also, suggestions to emigrants, sketches of the counties, cities, and principal towns in the state: together with a letter on the cultivation of the prairies, by the Hon. H. L. Ellsworth. To which are annexed the letters from A rambler in the West. (Published by S. Augustus Mitchell, and by Grigg & Elliott, no. 9, N. Fourth Street, 1837), by Rambler in the West, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, and S. Augustus Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
Eight months in Illinois, with information to immigrants (W. M. Hill, 1924), by William Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters from Illinois. (Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1818), by Morris Birkbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west. (Derby & Jackson;, 1856), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest (George Banta publishing company, 1930), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Louise Phelps Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Life in prairie land. (Harper & brothers, 1847), by Eliza W. Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
Pictures of Illinois one hundred years ago (R. R. Donnelley, 1918), by Milo Milton Quaife, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, William N. Blane, and Morris Birkbeck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wau-bun : the "early day" in the North-west (Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1932), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
Summer rambles in the West (J.C. Riker, 1853), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
The settlement of Illinois from 1830 to 1850. (Madison, Wis., 1908), by William Vipond Pooley (page images at HathiTrust)
Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west (Rand, McNally & company, 1901), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Eleanor Lytle Kinzie Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1873), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois as Lincoln knew it: a Boston reporter's record of a trip in 1847. (Springfield, Ill., 1938), by Joseph H. 1806-1880 Buckingham, Harry E. Pratt, and Ill.) Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Life in prairie land (Harper, 1855), by Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorable days in America: being a journal of a tour to the United States, principally undertaken to ascertain, by positive evidence, the condition and probable prospects of British emigrants; including the accounts of Mr. Birkbeck's settlement in the Illinois ... (AMS Press, 1969), by W. Faux (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorable days in America : being a journal of a tour to the United States, principally undertaken to ascertain, by positive evidence, the condition and probable prospects of British emigrants ; including accounts of Mr. Birkbeck's settlement in the Illinois (W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823), by W. Faux (page images at HathiTrust)
Pioneer letters of Gershom Flagg (Illinois state journal co., state printers, 1912), by Gershom Flagg and Solon J. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years' residence in the settlement on the English Prairie, in the Illinois country, United States : with an account of its animal and vegetable productions, agriculture, &c. &c., a description of the principal towns, villages, &c. &c., with the habits and customs of the back-woodsmen (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reessa, Orme, and Brown, 1822), by John Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
Chillicothe and North Chillicothe as of the year 1936. (Kenneth Krans Publications, 1936) (page images at HathiTrust)
The commerce and navigation of the valley of the Mississippi : and also that appertaining to the city of St. Louis : considered, with reference to the improvement, by the general government, of the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries (s.n., 1847), by Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Allen, Saint Louis (Mo.). Delegates to the Chicago River and Harbor Convention, and River and Harbor Convention (1847 : Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
Down historic waterways : six hundred miles of canoeing upon Illinois and Wisconsin rivers (A. C. McClurg, 1910), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
A guide to the Illinois Central Railroad lands : the Illinois Central Railroad Company, offer for sale over 1,400,00 acres of selected prairie and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, suitable for farms, on long credits and low prices, situated on each side of their railroad, extending through the state of Illinois. (Illinois Central Railroad Office, 1859), by Illinois Central Railroad Company and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hidalgo and home life at West Lawn (M.A. Donohue & Company, 1904), by Robert Anzly McCracken (page images at HathiTrust)
Illiamo : "Tri-State recreational center", Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. (Davidson Printing House, 1936), by Apollos W. O'Harra (page images at HathiTrust)
The Illinois Central Rail-Road Company offers for sale over 2,000,000 acres selected farming and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, to suit purchasers, on long credits, and at low rates of interest, situated on each side of their rail-road, extending all the way from the extreme north to the south of the state of Illinois. (John W. Amerman, printer, 1856), by Illinois Central Railroad Company and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois in 1818 (McClurg, 1918), by Solon J. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois Ozark region : historic development of county names and tabulation of scenic, historic, geologic and recreational points of interest. (Illinois State Planning Commission, 1939), by Illinois State Planning Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
The Illinois Ozarks (Register publishing company], 1946), by Clarence Bonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois state parks, memorials and conservation areas : an illustrated, descriptive guide to scenic parks, historic memorials and Lincoln shrines in Illinois. (State of Illinois, Dept. of Conservation, Division of Parks and Memorials, 1958), by Illinois. Dept. of Conservation (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois state parks and memorials 1935. (State of Illinois, Dep. of Public Works and Buildings, Division of State Parks, 1935), by Illinois. Division of Parks (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois and the West : with a township map, containing the latest surveys and improvements (Weeks, Jordan ;, 1838), by A. D. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters from Illinois. (Printed [by T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey ..., 1818), by Morris Birkbeck and Marcus Selden Goldman (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on a journey in America from the coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois (Printed by Severn and Co. ... for J. Ridgway ..., 1818), by Morris Birkbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
Prospectus (The Company, 1898), by Sycamore and Southern Electric Railway Company Geneva Lake and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
Thirteen tall state tours. (Division of Tourism, 1961), by Illinois. Division of Tourism (page images at HathiTrust)
Views of the Chicago & Alton route. (Adolph Wittemann, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
Extracts from a supplementary letter from the Illinois; an address to British emigrants; and a reply to the remarks of William Cobbett, esq. (Printed for James Ridgway, 1819), by Morris Birkbeck and William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
The emigrant's guide to the Western states of America, or, Backwoods and prairies : containing a complete statement of the advantages and capacities of the prairie lands, full instructions for emigrants in fitting out... (Oliver & Boyd, 1852), by John Regan (page images at HathiTrust)
Personal narrative of travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky; and of a residence in the Illinois Territory: 1817-1818 (A.H. Clark Co., 1906), by Elias Pym Fordham and Frederic Austin Ogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Wm. C. Hollister & bro.'s annual guide to picnic grounds and summer resorts of Chicago and the Northwest. (W. C. Hollister & bro., 1888), by Hollister (William C.) & bro (page images at HathiTrust)
Wau-bun, the "early day" of the North-west (The Caxton club, 1901), by Juliette Augusta Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
The Illinois central railroad company offers for sale over 1,500,000 acres selected farming and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, to suit purchasers, on long credits and at low rates of interest, situated on each side of their railroad, extending all the way from the extreme north to the south of the state of Illinois. (Illinois central rail road office, 1857), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
The Illinois central rail-road company offer for sale over 2,400,000 acres selected prairie, farm and wood lands, in tracts of any size, to suit purchasers, on long credits ... situated on each side of their rail-road extending all the way from the extreme north to the south of the state of Illinois. (J.W. Amerman, printer, 1855), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
The Illinois central railroad company offers for sale over 2,000,000 acres selected farming and wood lands (J. W. Amerman, printer, 1856), by Illinois central railroad co (page images at HathiTrust)
The Illinois Central Railroad Company offers for sale over 1,500,000 acres selected farming and wood lands (G. C. Rand & Avery, Printers, 1857), by Illinois Central Railroad Company and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
Caird's slanders on Canada answered & refuted! (Printed by Lovell & Gibson ... and sold by all booksellers in Canada ..., 1859), by James Caird (page images at HathiTrust)
Flagg's The far West, 1836-1837. (A. H. Clark, 1906), by Edmund Flagg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A guide to the Illinois central railroad lands : the Illinois central railroad company, offer for sale over 1,400,00 acres of selected prairie and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, suitable for farms, on long credits and low prices, situated on each side of their railroad, extending through the state of Illinois. (Illinois central railroad office, 1861), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
A winter in the West : letters descriptive of Chicago and vicinity in 1833-4 (Fergus printing company, 1882), by Charles Fenno Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
A guide to the Illinois Central Railroad lands : the Illinois Central Railroad Company, offer for sale over 1,4000,000 acres of selected prairie and wood lands in tracts of forty acres and upwards, suitable for farms, on long credits and low prices, situated on each side of their Railroad, extending through the state of Illinois. (The Office, 1860), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois in 1837 : a sketch descriptive of the situation, boundaries, face of the country, prominent districts, prairies, rivers, minerals, animals, agricultural productions, public lands, plans of internal improvement, manufactures, &c. of the State of Illinois : also, suggestions to emigrants, sketches of the counties, cities, and principal towns in the state : together with a letter on the cultivation of the prairies (S. A. Mitchell, 1837), by S. Augustus Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise durch das innere der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika im Jahre 1819. Besonders in Beziehung auf die an den flüssen Sangömo und Onapischquasippi im norden des Illinois-Staats belegenen, im gedachten Jahre von den Indianern an den Congress abgetretenen Landstrichen. (J.D. Gerstenberg, 1820), by Ferdinand Ernst (page images at HathiTrust)
Some unusual natural areas in Illinois and a few of their plants. (Urbana, 1963), by Robert A. Evers (page images at HathiTrust)
Barnes's complete geography (American Book Company, 1885), by James Monteith (page images at HathiTrust)
Wau-bun, the "early day" of the North-west. (Caxton Club, 1901), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
The English settlement in the Illinois. Reprints of three rare tracts on the Illinois country. With map and a view of a British colony house at Albion. (The Museum book store;, 1907), by Edwin Erle Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on a journey in America from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois (Printed by Severn & Co. for James Ridgway, 1818), by Morris Birkbeck, Samuel John Neele, and James Neele (page images at HathiTrust)
Geologic map of Galena and Elizabeth quadrangles, Illinois (Illinois State Geological Survey, University of Illinois, 1916), by Arthur C. Trowbridge, Bernard Henry Schockel, E. W. Shaw, and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
Central Illinois : official visitors guide. (Central Illinois Tourism Council :, in the 20th century), by Illinois. Bureau of Tourism and Central Illinois Tourism Council (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois : travelers guide to the prairie state (The Office, 1983), by Illinois. Office of Tourism (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois heritage : discover the magnificent miles of Illinois. (Dept. of Commerce and Community Affairs, Division of Tourism, 1982), by Illinois. Division of Tourism (page images at HathiTrust)
The geography of Illinois (Macmillan, 1923), by W. O. Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
Cram's township, county and railroad map and shippers' guide of Illinois, accompanied by a complete and original ready reference index, accurately locating all counties, county seats, cities, towns, post-offices, railroad stations, villages, etc. ... (New York, Chicago : George F. Cram [1903?], 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois, a brief summary of its advantages as a fruit growing section (The Board, 1893), by Illinois State Horticultural Society and Ill.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
Streamlined trails to recreation : Illinois. ([State of Illinois], 1939) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Southern Illinois. (State of Illinois, Division of Tourism, Illinois Dept. of Business and Economic Development, 1974), by Illinois. Division of Tourism (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Central Illinois. (State of Illinois, Division of Tourism, Illinois Dept. of Business and Economic Development, 1974), by Illinois. Division of Tourism (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mr. Lincoln's country. (Dept. of Business and Economic Development, Tourism Div., 1974), by Illinois. Division of Tourism (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Northern Illinois. (State of Illinois, Division of Tourism, Illinois Dept. of Business and Economic Development, 1974), by Illinois. Division of Tourism (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Western Illinois. (State of Illinois, Division of Tourism, Illinois Dept. of Business and Economic Development, 1974), by Illinois. Division of Tourism (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Facts about Illinois : an inland empire of industrial, agricultural and mineral wealth : its parks, historical shrines and fine highways make it the land of recreation and travel. (Illinois Development Council, 1947), by Illinois Development Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Along the line in Illinois. (The Dept., 1945), by Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Memorable days in America: being a journal of a tour to the United States, principally undertaken to ascertain, by positive evidence, the condition and probable prospects of British emigrants; including accounts of Mr. Birkbeck's settlement in the Illinois (A.H. CLark Co., 1904), by W. Faux and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
Essentials of geography (American Book, 1925), by Albert Perry Brigham and Charles T. McFarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
Way back in the past, a graphic word picture of pioneer life. ([Chester, Ill.], 1939), by William R. Karsteter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Illinois as it is : its history, geography, statistics, constitution, laws, government, finances, climate, soil, plants, animals, state of health, prairies, agriculture, cattle-breeding, orcharding, cultivation of the grape, timber-growing, market-prices, lands and land-prices, geology, mining, commerce, banks, railroads, public institutions, newspapers, etc., etc. (Keen and Lee;, 1857), by Frederick Gerhard (page images at HathiTrust)
Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West, by John H. Kinzie (Gutenberg ebook)
The Houseboat Book: The Log of a Cruise from Chicago to New Orleans, by W. F. Waugh (Gutenberg ebook)
Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest, by John H. Kinzie (Gutenberg ebook)

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