Scope and Contents The Donner Family Collection consists of newspaper articles, artifacts, books, correspondence, photographs, articles, journals, newsletters, brochures, notes, photocopies, posters, land grants and deeds, videocassettes, cassette tapes and CD-ROMs. The material pertains to the family of George Donner, who left Sangamon County, Illinois in 1846 to emigrate to California. After a series of mishaps and delays, they and their emigrant party were trapped by heavy snow and faced starvation in the...

Scope and Contents Harold A. Katz was elected Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Glencoe in 1964. He served for nine terms from 1965-1983 and was active in many areas. His special interests included civil liberties, public health and safety, criminal law, regional transportation, licensure legislation, "sunset" legislation, legislative rules and procedures, and the convention for a new state constitution. Perhaps, though, his greatest contribution to the legislature was...

Scope and Contents Copies of various journals relating to Radical Therapy from 1971-1983. The Radical Therapist journal was created in 1970 by the Radical Therapist Collective in Minot, North Dakota and went through many name changes over the next decade. It emerged in the context of the counter-culture and the radical U.S. antiwar movement. Radical therapy strives to use psychiatry as a force of liberation, suggesting that some methods of psychotherapy may be means of oppression in that their aim...

Scope and Contents This record series includes original issues of the Springfield Record newspaper between August 15 and August 20, 1908 during the Springfield Race Riots. While the newspaper contains articles on a variety of subjects, ranging from sports to local and national new, the primary significance of these issues are the articles that pertain to the Race Riots. These articles include stories about mob lynchings, mob prosecutions, stories pertaining to survivors, and the trial that instigated the...

Scope and Contents This collection, donated by UIS alumnus Brian Hendricks, is comprised of a partially complete run of "Capitol Fax," a daily newsletter devoted to Illinois politics. The collection includes issues of "Capitol Fax" spanning the years 1998-2003, although it is incomplete. "Capitol Fax" is transmitted to paid subscribers via fax machine and the internet and is written by Rich Miller. Additional Issues of Capitol fax, dating from October 2004 to the present, are located at the publication's...

Scope and Contents This collection of items relating to U.S. Highway 66 was collected by Ron Peddicord from 1991 to 2012. Items in the collection include guidebooks, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, postcards, maps, brochures, photographs, license plates, and various artifacts associated with the people, businesses, roadside attractions, and events along Route 66 in Illinois and other states, but more specifically in Sangamon County, Illinois. Also included are general items about other Illinois...

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The W. Russell Arrington gift consists of 21 scrapbooks dating from 1946 to 1979, including original newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, programs, and other documents and memorabilia relating to the career of W. Russell Arrington in the Illinois House of Representatives (1945-1954) and Senate (1955-1972).

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This collection of items was donated by Frank Niziolek.  It is titled "Chronological History of Military Actions During the American Revolution: 1774-1784" and is divided into geographical sections: Southern Department, Northern & Canadian Departments, Western Department & Frontier Warfare, and Middle, Eastern & Highlands Department.  The documents contain a chronological description of events during the American Revolution and maps of frontier warfare.

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These blueprints are for the steel work in Douglas School (1917), Empire Hotel (1925). Lyric Theater, Myers Borthers Buildings (1925), and more than 20 other buildings in Springfield. There are also blueprints for buildings in other Illinois cities. See MC11 for personal papers and union records.

Scope and Contents Professor of English at University of Carolina at Wilmington, University of Sassari (Italy), University of Puerto Rico and Salem State College in Massachusetts. While working on his PhD dissertation for Ohio State University on the novelist James Jones, Carter met the author and subsequently corresponded with him. Photocopies of 14 letters from James Jones to Carter, 1972-1975, in which Jones comments at length on Carter's questions about and analyses of Jones's novels From Here...