Scope and Contents A collection of approximately 500 postcards received and collected by Eva M. Humphrey of Athens and Chandlerville, Illinois. They were sent to Eva by family and friends and were postmarked between the years of 1906-1913. Many feature photographic scenes from towns and cities around Illinois and other parts of the United States. There are also general greeting cards, romantic cards, holiday greetings, as well as "Best Wishes" cards for Eva’s wedding to her husband Pascal ("Pack") Lacey in...

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This collection consists of the original cassette tapes and CD's of Bart Jan Bok's lectures and classes while on the campus of Sangamon State University.  Bok was a nationally known visiting astronomer with astronomy Professor Charles Schweighauser.

Scope and Contents American Association of University Women Springfield Branch (AAUW-S) records 2007-2016, including meeting minutes, budget documents, membership lists, by-law revisions, branch publicity and publications, lobbying records, and the branch president’s email communications. Also documented are the AAUW-S’s efforts to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified in Illinois (2014) and publications of the national AAUW organization, 2014-2016, including the magazine ...

Scope and Contents This collection includes a wide variety of interior and exterior views of Grayton, a mansion that stood in Taylorville, Illinois, from 1911 to 1962. Grayton was built (1911-1913) by Taylorville banker Eugene A. Vandeveer (1853-1915) and designed by Chicago architect Frederick Wainwright Perkins (1866-1929).The three story, 27-room, stucco and timber Tudor style house stood on twenty acres, including formal gardens, a swimming pool, biergarten, garage house, carriage house, and stables....

Scope and Contents Director of the Community Development and Program Department for the City of Springfield beginning in 1979. Community activities included work with the Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission, the Capital City Railroad Relocation Authority and the Springfield East Association. Served as Managing Editor of The Spirit of Black Springfield, a community newspaper affiliated with the Black Action Movement of Springfield and published in the late sixties. Also served as...

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One hundred and nine 8" x 10" black and white photographs depicting railroads in Illinois, including shots of Illinois Terminal Railroad Company, Chicago & Illinois Midland, Illinois Central Gulf and Amtrak railroad cars. Taken by rail photographer Donald Sims. Some were published in the Spring 1980 issue of Railway Quarterly, a copy of which is included.

Scope and Contents A writers' colony, located in Marshall, Illinois, opened in 1950 by Lowney and Harry Handy and best-selling novelist James Jones. It supported numerous young writers, many of whose stories and novels were published. The colony dissolved with the death of Lowney Handy in 1964. The collection includes: by-laws, minutes, correspondence, membership, and financial records of the colony regarding its founding, organization, finances, philosophy, and teaching methods; approximately...

Scope and Contents Springfield radical therapy collective and problem-solving group, founded by Dr. Robert Sipe , Becky McGovern and others in the 1976. Incorporated in 1982 as Cooperative Power, Inc., it assumed management of Issues in Radical Therapy, a periodical merging Issues in Cooperation and Power and State and Mind. Organized the Midwest Radical Therapy Conference, 1980-1984. Planning papers, correspondence, minutes, mailing lists, conference programs, workshop descriptions, contracts,...

Scope and Contents The Taylorville "Mine War" Scrapbook, March l7, l933 - October 11, l933 consists of clippings chiefly from Taylorville, Illinois daily newspapers, the Daily Breeze and the Courier, documenting eight months of the Illinois mine wars which started in 1932 as a wage dispute but soon became a power struggle between the United Mine Workers (UMW) and the Progressive Miners of America (PMA) for control of the mines in central and southern Illinois. The articles document the violence,...