Old Main Building, Illinois State University

Title

Old Main Building, Illinois State University

Rights

Uncredited photo from Illinois State University Newsletter

Article on Old Main

Type

Photo

Creator

Illinois State University

Date

1950 for photograph
ca. 1859-1860 for building

Description

Photograph of the extensive Old Main Building on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. This was known originally as Illinois State Normal School. The Wrightonian Society was one of two debating societies (along with the Philadelphian) that existed on campus in the time period when Charles Calistus Burleigh was in Bloomington.

Format

Photograph

Place

Normal, Illinois

Illinois

Publisher

Illinois State University

Contributor

C. C. Burleigh spoke to the Wrightonian Society on November 1, 1873.

Charles Calistus Burleigh

Relation

Archival resource at Normal

Good overview of debating societies at Illinois State found here

Subject

Original location for the Literary and Debating clubs at Illinois State Normal School, now Illinois State University, in Normal.

Temporal Coverage

1860-1955 for Old Main