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SMU261/292 arrive in to Springfield station with a shuttle to Richlands during the community open day.
File name: 06_10_013551
Title: Southern Air, "Famous for Fine Foods", Route 125, Springfield, Illinois
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subject: Restaurants
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
This former residence in the Lincoln Home National Historic Site now serves as a conference center operated by the National Park Service. The Photoshop poster edges effect has been lightly applied in the processing of this image.
For more photographs of Lincoln Sites, visit my "All ABout Abe" (Set).
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You are invited to stay and browse through my photostream. Here's a quick index to my Flickr site:
Springfield, Illinois: All of my photographs of Springfield and the Abraham Lincoln Sites are in this collection. For the City of Springfield, there are separate sets for the Capitol Complex, Downtown (including the Old State Capitol), Neighborhoods, Parks, Illinois State Fairgrounds (and past State Fairs), and more. Photographs of Lincoln sites include the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Lincoln Tomb, and so on. Also in the Lincoln "All About Abe" (Set) are a few Lincoln sites not located in Springfield.
Central Illinois (except Springfield): Photos relating to the middle section of the "Land of Lincoln" (except for the Capital City of Springfield) may be found in this collection. Every city and town I've photographed is contained within its own set, and rural (as in "counrtyside") photographs are grouped by county.
Beyond Central Illinois: Other locales in the United States and Canada including New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.
In addition to my location-based sets, here are links to some "topical" collections and sets I've put together:
Automobile Photograph Collection: This is a very large collection of images whose primary, but not exclusive, focus is on American automotive classics. Images are organized by decade, by manufacturer, and by topics (such as convertibles, station wagons, muscle cars, etc.)
Barbers & Barber Shops: Traditional barbers and barber shops are on the endangered species list. But there are still plenty to be found if you go looking for them.
Almost Everything Else. Check It Out!!!: Included topics range from man's first walk on the moon to small town schools and churches, and from Soft-Coated Wheaten Terriers (our favorite breed) to things that are abandoned, neglected, weathered, or rusty.
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This is my new Springfield Armory XD45. I bought this within a couple of weeks of buying my new Glock 21SF .45 ACP, and have since decided the XD is a far superior pistol in terms of ergonomics. The Glock still has it's merits and is by all accounts a great firearm as well.
Springfield Mall is gone and in its place is now Springfield Town Center. It's pretty dead but with nearly half the mall still empty, it's no surprise. They do well considering. I love the changes they made to the place. The interior design is amazing and closing the openings in the floor of the upper level has made it feel more spacious. It's beautiful!
Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito join Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno and other state and local officials to celebrate the redevelopment of Springfield’s Civic Center Garage on Aug. 20, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
The view is looking northwestward in downtown Springfield, Illinois, at the intersection of East Adams and South Fifth Streets. At one time this was a busy commercial district, but today not so much although some shops and restaurants remain in business to cater to the tourist traffic and downtown business workers.
Springfield Model 1861 caliber .58 Minie ball
Armi Sport 1861 Springfield Muzzle loading Rifle 58 Caliber Percussion
Laura Pfeffer of Lodi, Wisconsin, left, and Camille McCaskill of Shiloh, Illinois, talk during a breakout session at United Methodist Women’s Just Energy for All training Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, at Douglas Avenue United Methodist Church in Springfield, Illinois.
Photo by Rich Saal/Rich Saal Photography
Southern Pacific built 100's of these "Common Standard" designed stations in California, Oregon, and Nevada in the late 1800's. Dozens still remain in various conditions. This one, built in 1891 in Springfield, OR,, is one of the better restorations.
Lincoln Tomb State Historic Park is located at Oak Ridge Cemetery. It houses the remains of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, and three of their four children. Construction of the tomb began in 1869 and was completed in 1874.
Springfield Barnes Farm - the farmer was Mr David Fleming who had a fine dairy herd of Fresians plus a few Ayrshires through the 60s, later a beef herd of Herefords.
In 1986, a BBC Domesday project visited the farm where the dairy cattle had already gone; at that time Chelmer village was to the north of Sandford Mill Road, towards Cuton Hall and the Fleming land was still being farmed by Robert Fleming. The Marriage family departed in 1918. Now a pub cum restaurant, surrounded by late 80s - early 90s housing and trading estates and retail developments.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_State_Capitol
The Illinois State Capitol, located in Springfield, Illinois, houses the legislative and executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of Illinois. The current building is the sixth to serve as the capitol building since Illinois was admitted to the United States in 1818. Built in the architectural styles of the French Renaissance and Italianate, it was designed by Cochrane and Garnsey, an architecture and design firm based in Chicago. Ground was broken for the new capitol on March 11, 1868, and the building was completed twenty years later for a total cost of $4.5 million.
The building contains the chambers for the Illinois General Assembly, which is made up of the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. An office for the Governor of Illinois, additional offices, and committee rooms are also in the building. The capitol's footprint is cross-shaped, with four equal wings. Its tall central dome and tower roofs are covered in zinc to provide a silvery facade which does not weather. Architecture scholar Jean A. Follett describes it as a building that "is monumental in scale and rich in detail." The interior of the dome features a plaster frieze painted to resemble bronze, which illustrates scenes from Illinois history, and stained glass windows, including a stained glass replica of the state seal in the oculus of the dome.