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...

Scope and Contents

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 Organized, operated and sponsored guest speakers and entertainment on the Chataqua grounds at Petersburg, Illinois. Later the grounds were subdivided and sold to members for cottages and concessions. Founded as the Old Salem Cumberland Presbyterian State Chataqua Association of Petersburg in 1897.Photocopies of minute books, including committee records, financial reports, stock certificates and other materials documenting the history and activities of the Association. Also...

Scope and Contents

Transcripts of 228 speeches, addresses and remarks delivered by Illinois Governor Adlai E. Stevenson during his campaign for U.S. President in 1952. Topics include domestic policy, off-shore oil deposits, McCarthyism, foreign policy and Korea. Includes his welcoming address at the Democratic National Convention, speeches given during his campaign train tour and his concession speech to President-elect Eisenhower.

Scope and Contents

Assistant Librarian 1937-54. Member and Executive Secretary of the Vachel Lindsay Association.

Letters, announcements, programs, brochures, and report regarding the activities of the Vachel Lindsay Association, including annual meetings, composition contests; Marquardt's role as a member and Executive Secretary; and the acquisition and restoration of the Lindsay home. Contains recollections of classes taught by Lindsay at the Springfield YMCA in 1909.

Scope and Contents

Mason County Illinois Family.

Marriage certificates for James W. Shelton and Sarah C. Smith (1884) and Sarah Shelton & John Armstrong (1898); birth dates for Sarah Shelton & John Armstrong and their children (Clara Belle, Albert, Lula May); and an unsigned temperance pledge. Except for the 1884 marriage, all papers appear to have come from a family bible.

Scope and Contents Steel worker and contractor. Founding member of Local 46 of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. Local Union 46 includes correspondence, reports, financial records, workmen time books, day books, membership ledgers documenting routine union business, the Chicago Lockout of 1921, and Illinois Governor Len Small, the local's involvement in the Springfield School Districts 1921 elections ans specifications for the Elk's Club building. Also includes personal...