BEAL GRAND CORRIDOR GALLERY
HISTORIC ILLINOIS: BARNS & COAL MINING
October 22 – December 31, 2023
- Exhibit Open: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 pm
- Gallery Admission – Free
GATHER AT THE GALLERIES – EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 21 | 5:00 to 7:00 pm
- Complimentary Bar & Hors d’oeuvres | 5:00 – 6:00 pm
- Admission $10.00 | Cedarhurst Members – Free
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ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:
Historic Illinois: Barns & Coal Mining presents two major industries of Southern Illinois and provides context for the Visions of Us exhibition. These photographs of Illinois barns and coal mining originate from two 1980 exhibits in the Cedarhurst collections. Organized by the Illinois State Historical Society “Barns of Illinois” was originally designed to be hand-held photographs that schoolchildren could study up close. “The American Coal Miner” was commissioned in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter to document how coal miners lives had changed over the past 30 years. The coal miner exhibition documented 17 states including Illinois.
