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...

Scope and Contents Two Springfield families with social, political and marital ties, who were leaders in American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary activities. Walter Hagler was Treasurer of Sangamon County in 1938, and County Sheriff from 1942 to 1946. Photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, minutes, and memorabilia chiefly documenting the activities of the Walter Hagler and James Milner families in the activities of Springfield's American Legion (1937-51), the American Legion Auxiliary...

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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 Chemical engineer and water purification expert. Came to Springfield in 1926 to start the operation of the water softening plant which he helped design for the Sangamon River Station. Designed the Springfield Water Purification Plant built in 1936. Noted internationally for his invention of the Spaulding Precipitator, used internationally in water treatment plants. During World War II, designed a mobile water filtration unit for use by troops. Technical article, manuscripts and...

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Photograph album probably created by J. Chr. Dusel, includes photos taken of various friends and scenes while on vacation in Cartaret, North Carolina, and St. Augustine, Florida (1901-1902).

Album also includes printed pictures of Yellowstone National Park.

(10x14, 31 leaves, approximately 155 photos).

Scope and Contents Affiliate of the Illinois chapter of the National Abortion Rights Action League. Founded in 1979 to organize and lobby for the availability of safe and legal abortions in Illinois. Leaders included Nina Adams, John Arnold, Bev Dobbs, Jo Ann Duma and Kathy Wood. Minutes, by-laws, correspondence, membership lists, financial records, memoranda, press information, brochures, research papers, legislative materials, newsletters, newspapers, and clippings documenting the Alliance's...

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...

Scope and Contents Founded by Jane Addams in 1915, the WILPF is dedicated to working by non-violent means for international peace and freedom. The Springfield chapter was founded in 1947 by Francis Blane Hurie. Members have comprised black and white Springfield women, including Mary and Emma Kreider, Docia Ashurst, Martha Tranquilli, Isabel Patrick, Agnes Howarth, Alice Kaige and Mary Johnston. Minutes, constitutions, by-laws, correspondence, newsletters, bulletins, committee records, membership...