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 ...

William Bonner, 1841 - 1863 Courtesy of Bonner Family William Bonner Jr. was one of thousands of Lake County men to enlist in the Civi...

During the Civil War, Susannah Smith (1839 - 1914) of Millburn wrote letters to her brother, George, who was with the 96th Illinois Regiment...