Photograph of the exterior of the 1857 Madison County Courthouse with a Peanut and Popcorn Wagon

courthouse, Edwardsville, flags, peanuts, popcorn, snow, wagon

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Undated photograph showing the exterior of the 1857 Madison County courthouse. There is snow on the ground, a group of men standing outside the courthouse door, and a peanut and popcorn wagon in the foreground.

• SIUE Archive

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• government
• law
• Edwardsville

Before 1915

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

9 x 11.5 [inches]

• Edwardsville, Illinois

• GodfreyPhoto-P-006