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Whitney discusses his career with the State of Illinois at the Department of Finance, the Department of Conservation, the Schaefer Commission, Budgetary Commission, and Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee. He discusses budgetary issues, the role of the legislature in the budgeting process and accounting systems.

2 tapes, 180 mins., 46 pp. Interview by Bill Day, 1984 OPEN See collateral file

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MYERS BROTHERS DEPARTMENT STORE PROJECT Wilday, accountant, recalls the Myers Brothers Department Store, its accounting operations, stores, delivery, and warehousing.

Interview by John Vrooman, 1972 OPEN See collateral file for tape see James Myers

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Wilkin recalls duties, responsibilities, and trains while working for the Chicago & Illinois Midland, Illinois Terminal and other railroads in the early 20th century in Springfield and central Illinois. Also briefly mentions the Springfield community during the early 20th century.

1 tape, 56 mins., 19 pp. Interview by Frederick G. Fliege, 1973 OPEN See collateral file

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Anna M. Williams discusses rural life in Mason and Menard Counties, Illinois in the early 20th century: livestock, crops, life on the farm, and fishing in Illinois River backwaters; one room school education, lessons and programs; homemade foods and crafts; and family life, parents, brother, and her German-American heritage.

2 tapes, 225 mins., 33 pp. Interview by Rosalyn L. Bone, 1975 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes and photographs.

Scope and Contents INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION Elvera L. Williams, married to James D. Williams, discusses her foreign living experiences with the IIAA as a wife, mother, and as a woman in the 1940's and '50's. In Brazil and the Amazon Valley: living conditions, language problems, the Brazilian people, electricity, shopping, weather and climate, housing and housekeeping, marketing, insects and rodents, and recreation. In Mexico: culture shock, housekeeping and marketing, children, Mexicans,...

Scope and Contents ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Gale Williams, Republican member of the Illinois House of Represen-tatives 1961-65 and 1967-73, discusses the issues of his years in the General Assembly: legislative and judicial reform, economic development, transportation, conservation, and agriculture, reapportionment, patronage and public employees, and leaving the legislature. He also discusses his years before the General Assembly: family and farm life near the southern Illinois town of...

Scope and Contents INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION James D. Williams, civil and sanitary engineer for IIAA 1943-46 and 1956-61, married to Elvera Williams, discusses his experiences and work with the IIAA and successor agencies in Brazil, Guatemala, and Mexico: duties and responsibilities, IIAA policies, organization, economics, and staff; each country's economics, government, society, climate, and culture; and U.S. policies, politics and involvement in foreign affairs. He discusses the Amazon...

Scope and Contents Marie South Williams recalls rural life in southern Illinois and in Springfield during the early 20th century: family and farm life in DeSoto, Illinois, her grandmothers, household chores, homemade foods and remedies, holidays, crops, African Americans and discrimination, early schooling and at Carbondale, her husband, Frank Williams, teaching school, gangsters in Williamson County, Depression and prohibition, Charles Lindbergh, the 1925 tornado, coal mining and the mine wars, and...

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T. Harry Williams, history professor and Lincoln scholar, author of Lincoln and the Radicals, briefly discusses the significance of Abraham Lincoln.

1 tape, 60 mins., 13 pp. Interview by Brian Alexander, 1972 OPEN See collateral file

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John and Hazel Wilson, African American residents of Springfield, discuss the city, the 1908 race riot, the black community, discrimination, and integrating the theaters.

3 tapes, 270 mins., 42 pp. Interviews by Jim Krohe, 1971 and Castella Henderson, 1973 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's note and photographs.