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 Springfield pacifist, community organizer and professional librarian. Member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Co-founder of the West Side Neighborhood Association, 1977. Minutes, notes, reports, program proposals, newsletters and correspondence of the Central Illinois American Friends Service Committee, 1974-1980, and area committee of the Midwest Regional Office, established in 1972. Documents its establishment as a full-time office in 1976, its...

Scope and Contents Records of four successive organizations which have conducted family planning education and services in Springfield, Illinois since 1938. Incorporation certificate, constitution, by-laws, letters and patient load statistics of the Springfield Maternal Health Center, 1938-1956, documenting its founding and organization, the controversy surrounding its sponsorship of a performance by Jeannette MacDonald in Springfield in 1939, and statistical information on clients from the John...

Scope and Contents Not-for-profit cooperative which encouraged parental involvement to foster the educational, social and physical development of preschool children. Founded as the Cookie Monster Day Care Cooperative in l972. Closed in 1982. Collection contains organization documents, by-laws, minutes, annual reports, photographs, curricular records, children and personnel records, and grant and contractual program records documenting the Cookie Monster Day Care Center's organizational...