Midway Village Museum is Rockford Illinois’ local history museum. More than 2,800 images from the Museum's collection are available to view here.
This site is keyword searchable using the search box at the top right of the page. Each image has been uploaded as a low resolution watermarked file.
High resolution copies of the images are available upon request by using the contact form. Please reference the Identifier Number (found on the information page for each image) with your request.
Featured Collection
Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois in World War I and World War II
A collection of postcard views and photographs of Camp Grant. In April 1917 the United States entered the first World War. Immediately the federal …
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Ice Wagon
An ice wagon advertising "Excursion Penitentiary-Chicago Drainage Canal - $2.00 round trip." The Ice house was on the river bank. The wagon is full…
Horse Drawn Carriage
Two unidentified children and a dog are in a carriage outside of a grocery store advertising Coca Cola.
Wilcox Family Outing
Two children in a horse drawn buggy. Identified as Wesley (age 6) and Raymond (age 4) Wilcox, children of uncle and father of Marion Wilcox Eklund,…
Adams Express at the Opera House
Liveried drivers in two horse drawn delivery wagons in front of the Opera House. One wagon is an Adams Express wagon, for the national shipping…