Photograph file [picture], n.d.

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Photograph file [picture], n.d.

Black-and-white photographs of Illinois Governors Altgeld, Tanner, Yates, Deneen, Dunne, Lowden, Small, Emmerson, Horner, Stelle, Green, Stevenson, and Stratton; and eight matrons of the Illinois Soldiers' Widows' Home.

21 photographs.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7387957

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois. Office of the Governor

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The Board of Fund Commissioners was created by l. 1837, p. 121. Board contracted for and negotiated all loans authorized by General Assembly for internal improvements and signed and executed all bonds or stock certificates issued for such loans. Monies received from proceeds of loans were deposited at State Bank of Illinois and Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown. These deposits were used to pay drafts issued on Fund Commissioners by Board of Commissioners of Public Works for expenditur...

Soldiers' Widows' Home of Illinois.

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The Illinois Soldiers' Widows' Home (1895-1963), a home for indigent mothers, wives, widows and daughters of honorably discharged veterans, was created in 1895. The Wilmington home was governed by five Governor-appointed trustees, who operated the home under the supervision of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities (1895-1909) and the Illinois Board of Administration (1909-1917). Jurisdiction over the home transferred to the Dept. of Public Welfare (1917-1961) and then to the Dept....