Waukegan Weekly Gazette , July 7, 1877.   On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence from Great Britain. The vote was ...

A French illustration of a young consumptive from  Le Journal Illustré , No. 34, October 2-9, 1864. Library of Congress. In the 19th c...

Among the oldest items in the museum's archival collections is a diary kept by Hannah Gwinn Loring (1791 - 1847) written between 1804 ...