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If ordering by mail, please include $4.00
shipping & handling for first book & $1.00 for each additional book
unless otherwise noted. Illinois residents please add 6.25% sales tax.
Mail orders to:
The Museum Store
801 South Eighth Ave.
Kankakee, IL 60901
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Images of America:
Kankakee 1853-1910
Norman
S. Stevens
NEW!
128 pages. The Arcadia
“Images of America Series,” celebrates the history of neighborhoods,
towns and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each
title presents distinctive stories from the past that shape the character
of our communities today. The images in this volume come from the
Kankakee County Museum’s extensive still photographic collection. They
represent many varied slices of life from the founding of Kankakee in
1853 to the end of the first decade of the twentieth century.
Softcover
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Images of America:
Kankakee 1911 to 1953
Norman
S. Stevens
NEW!
128 pages. The images in
this book come also from the Museum’s large photographic collection. This
book continues the story started in “Images of America: 1853 to 1910,”
picking it up in the early twentieth century and progressing through the
celebration of Kankakee’s first centennial in 1953.
Softcover
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Images of America:
Kankakee Railroads
Norman
S. Stevens
128 pages. This extremely interesting
book explores the rich railroading history of Kankakee County with over
two hundred previously unpublished railroad related photographs, all from
the extensive still photograph collection of the Kankakee County Museum.
Kankakee County owes its very existence to the arrival of the railroad to
the area in the middle nineteenth century. Taken with “Images of America:
Kankakee 1853 to 1910,” and “Images of America: Kankakee 1911 to 1953,”
“Images of Rail: Kankakee Railroads,” constitute an excellent
three-volume set displaying part of the Kankakee County Museum’s rich
photographic collection.
Softcover
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An Illustrated Sesquicentennial Reader: Kankakee County,
Illinois
Vic
Johnson
NEW!
460 pages. This book is
published as a retrospect of Kankakee County's 150-year history, and
contains many of Vic Johnson's "Up 'Til Now" newspaper columns
and additional information. Readers will find the contents of this book
informative and entertaining. To retain the flavor of events as they
occured, many stories contain accounts as reported by newspapers of the
day.
Hardcover
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Riverview Historic District
1866-1935
Don
des Lauriers and Mardene Hinton
This 180-page book is about the people
of Kankakee who built Riverview. It highlights important events that
occurred throughout the development of the area, describes the
architectural styles of the houses and gives biographical sketches of the
Riverview residents. Over 400 nostalgic photos are included.
Hardcover
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Legends and Tales of Homeland on The Kankakee
Burt
Burroughs
Burt Burroughs sets forth in a lyrical
style a record of the early settlement of the Kankakee Valley. He used
"legend" and "tale" gathered after many individual
consultations, prowling by-ways and out-of-the-way places, to tell the story
of the Kankakee River and Valley.
Hardcover
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Dennison's Andersonville Diary
James
Dennison / Jack Klasey
During the Civil War, on June 20, 1864,
Sgt. James Dennison, an Illinois soldier of the 113th Illinois Volunteer
Infantry, was incarcerated in the infamous prison at Andersonville, GA.
Built by the Confederate Army to hold 1,000 prisoners, the number had
swelled to 26,000 by the time Dennison arrived. Sgt. Dennison recorded
existence at Andersonville prison, and ensuing camps, in a small diary,
written in pencil. The heat, hunger, cold, sickness and the death of
prisoners was recorded in short, cryptic phrases, almost indecipherable
in parts. Thanks to the lucid transcription and notes of Jack Klasey, the
diary becomes a readable document of a most tragic time in our history.
Hardcover
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And Thus It Was:
The View Of The Poet
Ric
Edwards
And
Thus It Was is the poetic
endeavor of the author over a number of years. Each piece is a complete
expression of the author's thoughts giving the reader something to
ponder. The book is designed for contented reading by the fire on a
winter's eve or on the breast of a hill on a bright sunny day.
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Oh, Brother!
Written
and Illustrated by Ken Stark
With sky-high imaginations, boundless
spaces, and their neighbor Tootie, Ken Stark and his brother Phil had a
simple but enchanted childhood. From riding double on their old bike, to
dreaming of adopting a stray horse, to building a car that might fly, the
Stark brothers' fun is timeless and their energy is irresistible.
Brimming with faithful details from Ken's experiences, these glimpses of
life in the country capture the 1950s for all to enjoy.
Oh,
Brother! is the second
children's book Ken has illustrated and the first he has written.
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Orphan Train
Verla
Kay / Illustrated by Ken Stark
Lucy, Harold and David are orphans with
no one to take care of them. They are living on the streets, stealing and
begging for food to survive, like thousands of other unfortunate kids in
the early 1900s.
When Lucy and her little brothers are
welcomed into an orphanage, they get clean clothes and warm meals. But
the orphanage is overcrowded, and groups of children are being sent to
the Midwest on orphan trains.
Conveyed through poignant verse and
moving paintings, Orphan
Train is a story of heartache and hope.
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