Scope and Contents Historical financial instruments, such as bonds, stock certificates, treasury notes, checks and a land patent, many bearing decorative engraved vignettes and associated with prominent events and persons in financial and political history. Some of the items include: a 1782 bond issued by France's King Louis XVI, secured by taxes on alcohol and salt, which were bitterly resented by the common people and contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution; a 1795 certificate for...

Scope and Contents The Robert P. Crawford Audio Archives contains 58 hours and 47 minutes of tape recorded radio broadcasts, copied onto 63 audio CDs. Robert P. Crawford (b. 1936) was the City Hall Correspondent for WBBM radio in Chicago from the 1960s until his retirement in 2001. The central figures are six Chicago mayors from Richard J. Daley to Richard M. Daley. There are 2148 separate speeches, news conferences, and interviews. There is also an "Archives Preview" disk narrated by Crawford. The collection...

Scope and Contents The Illinois Central Blues Club was founded in 1986 by Vicki Biddle to promote public education and appreciation of Blues music as a cultural art form, to sponsor live Blues performances, to publicize the significant cultural contributions of Blues musicians, songwriters, and performers, and to promote and participate in Blues festivals in central Illinois. The ICBC collection contains organizational documents such as Articles of Incorporation, lists of founding members, board...

Scope and Contents William Howarth is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He earned a B.A. at the University of Illinois and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. This collection contains research, notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, and drafts pertaining to travel writings he composed for the National Geographic Society from 1981-1987.Series I (Folders 1-22) St. Lawrence River Research: Research pertaining to Howarth's article, "The St. Lawrence" that...

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...