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A 1:48 hour long video about the 1988 Peabody Mine fire, includes footage of the fire, rescue, and cleanup.

A figurine of a coal miner made out of coal from a coal vein running from Wales to Illinois

A Mixture of political buttons ranging from 1968-present including Nixon and Humphrey.

Political Buttons include:
-Barack Obama presidential buttons for 2008 and 2012
-Women for Barack Obama in 2004
-Women for Hillary from either 2008 or 2016
-Bill Clinton and Al Gore in 1992
-A plethora of gay pride buttons including Illinois gay…

The rifle bayonet was dug up around Chatham, North of the cemetery. Graham McCoy found this bayonet while metal detecting in the fields around Chatham.

Pins representing various offices in the state of Illinois, included are Secretary of State, Attorney General, Park Board, and Governor.

Select pages from Morrisonville Community High School Yearbook

The selected pages feature Alice Sloman, sophomore, attending her last year at Morrisonville Community High School before moving to Springfield. Handwritten notes wish Alice well…

Text on the front of the magnet: Maputo
This magnet was acquired in Mozambique and has Mozambique's capital city Maputo written on the front. Jake Friefeld got this magnet on vacation to Mozambique while he was planning his wedding. While he was…

Jake Friefeld traveled to Mozambique to meet his brother and a couple of friends while his brother was living in Maputo, working for the U.S. department of state. His brother had been working at the embassy for three years in Mozambique at that…

A woman is baking bread within a mud oven outside of Tetouan, Morocco.