Scope and Contents Four generations of a prosperous family prominent in Springfield, Illinois. Many of the photographs were taken by Mary Esther Booth Grunendike (1865-1967). Prominently featured are her parents Amasa and Harriot Richardson Booth, her husband Edward H. Grunendike and son E. Booth Grunendike. The collection contains approximately 4000 photographs, including cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards and cyanotypes, as well as scrapbooks, clippings and memorabilia documenting family members and...

Scope and Contents Not-for-profit alternative secondary school founded in Springfield in 1970 as the The Learning Community. Name changed to the Center for Alternative Education in 1980. In its early years, many students were children of Sangamon State University professors. Directors included Joe McHugh and Nancy Ranyard. Due to financial problems, the Center closed in 1982. Minutes, by-laws, articles of incorporation, reports, contracts, applications, correspondence, schedules, journals, student...

Scope and Contents A Sangamon County family based in Loami. Descendants of the historically significant Donners whose 1846 emigrant trip to California ended tragically in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.Photographs, news clippings, memorial books, correspondence, recipes, a scrapbook, and a diary documenting family relationships, reunions, trips, personal events, and group activities in the lives of the Donners descending from Irven and Emma Martin Donner, and of the Hill family, as related to this...

Scope and Contents Consumer book cooperative founded along Rochdale principles by SSU-affiliated persons in 1971. Specialized in small press, radical and underground titles. Viewed as a "vehicle for social change" with "anarcho-pacifist politics." Published "Illinois People's History Calendars," 1974 and 1976. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, announcements, posters, recipes, calendars, cookbooks, photographs, contracts, agreements, operating procedures,...

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Records of A Different Drummer, 1971-72, include a collection of philosophical statements and proposals, membership lists, public announcements, correspondence, financial statements, notes and research papers documenting the school's organization, philosophy and curriculum.

A Different Drummer was an alternative school founded in Springfield for students aged 10-18.

Scope and Contents Editor and publisher of Iliniwek, a newspaper devoted to early Illinois history published 1963-1976. Phillips was a resident of East Peoria, Illinois, and received a B.S. from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. Thirty-six thousand (36,000) black and white photographic negatives with corresponding contact sheets documenting unusual and historical rural and town architecture in Illinois and other midwestern sites. Topics include transportation,...

Scope and Contents Not-for-profit corporation dedicated to resolving consumer complaints received from the Springfield public. Incorporated on December 28, 1972. Founded by SSU student John J. Jewett as an Applied Study project. Correspondence, consumer complaints, organizational documents, financial records, newspaper clippings, and research materials documenting the Association's foundation, services, organizational structure, finances and research. Includes a research report on market and...

Scope and Contents Consumer cooperative founded in Springfield in 1972. Joined the Flatland Federation of Cooperative and Community Organizations in 1978.Minutes, correspondece, by-laws, newsletters, work manuals, inventories, financial records, research materials documenting the Cooperative's philosophy, and documents detailing the goals and organizational structure of the Co-op are included. Also included are docuements detailing membership activities and responsibilities and the day-to-day...

Scope and Contents A coalition of individuals and representatives of community formed in 1976 in response to the proposed rate hike by the municipally-owned utility, City Water, Light and Power (CWLP). Dedicated to electric rate reform.Correspondence, announcements, press releases, clippings, reports, pamphlets, position papers, rate schedules, minutes and agendas, comsumer cost comparisons, and sundry other documents concerning the proposed rate hike by CWLP and the oppositions to it by SCFER. ...

Scope and Contents The DES Action Group Records, 1972-76, consists of letters, brochures, timetables, newsletters, news clippings, planning and meeting notes, and collected research material documenting the Group's planning, purpose, and publicity efforts; its public hearing on DES; and its preliminary application to the American Cancer Society for a grant. Also includes some materials of the local "Action Faction" of the New American Movement, including notes and newsletters documenting its relations...