Illinois Heartland Library System

Chellini Madonna
Donatello; Metal-work ; Sculpture ; Art, Italian; Art ; 1400 - 1499 ; Renaissance European, 1400 - 1600
Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum

Touch kit for Ancient Mediterranean and Eastern Gallery at Krannert Art Museum
Krannert Art Museum. Ancient Mediterranean and Eastern Gallery--Tours; Classical antiquities; Art--Mediterranean Region; Art, Egyptian; Egypt--Religion.
Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum

Note Accompanying Photograph 2007-1-497
African Americans; Aeronautics--United States; Coffey, Cornelius Robinson, 1903-1994; Curtiss-Wright School of Aviation; National Air and Space Museum; Photographs
Text: "The Curtiss, Wright Aeronautical School trained its First all-black class in 1932. Graduates of the program provided leadership for Chicago-based black flying clubs throughout the 1930s. A new exhibit examining the relatively unexplored area...
William R. Thompson Digital Collection -- Tuskegee Airmen

Lee A. "Buddy" Archer in Italy
Archer, Lee A., Jr.; Fighter pilots; Mustang (Fighter planes); United States Army Air Forces 302nd Fighter Squadron; Tuskegee Airmen; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American; Italy;...
Black and white photograph of 302nd Fighter Squadron pilot Lee A. Archer in the cockpit of a P-51C Mustang in Italy. According to the PA Veterans Museum, Archer flew 169 missions and is the only confirmed ace of the Tuskegee Airmen with five...
William R. Thompson Digital Collection -- Tuskegee Airmen

Whale effigy vessel
Pottery ; Pre-Columbian Tour ; Art, South American ; Pre-contact, -1500 South American ; Art ; 1500 B.C. - 000
Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum

One hundred stallions
Castiglione, Giuseppe, 1688-1766.; Horses--Pictorial works.; China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum

The art of stained glass a touch kit
Glass painting and staining--History--Study and teaching; Glass painting and staining--Technique--Study and teaching.
Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum

Andean Gallery tour touch kit
Krannert Art Museum. Pre-Columbian Gallery--Tours.; Handlooms--Specimens.; Panpipes--Specimens.; Quipu--Specimens.
Art Objects and Replicas of the Giertz Education Center @ Krannert Art Museum

99th Pursuit Squadron Air Mechanics Graduation
United States Army Air Forces 99th Fighter Squadron; United States Army Air Forces 99th Pursuit Squadron; Tuskegee Airmen; Aviation mechanics (Persons); Commencement ceremonies; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War,...
Black and white photograph of a graduating air mechanics class 100 members of the 99th Pursuit Squadron at Building P-2, Hangar #3, Chanute Field,Rantoul, Illinois. The hangar/building is now the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum (OCAM).
William R. Thompson Digital Collection -- Tuskegee Airmen

William R. Thompson with Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Statue
Thompson, William R., 1916-2002; War memorials--Michigan; United States Army Air Forces 99th Fighter Squadron; United States Army Air Forces 99th Pursuit Squadron; Tuskegee Airmen; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War,...
Black and white photograph of William R. Thompson in later life with a statue believed to be a miniature of the larger Tuskegee Airmen Memorial at the National Museum of the Tuskegee Airmen in Detroit, Michigan.
William R. Thompson Digital Collection -- Tuskegee Airmen