Old Main Building, Illinois State University · SJSU Digital Exhibits

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