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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). Scrapbooks are digitized.

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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.

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...

Scope and Contents Writer and poet, resident of New York City and Lincoln, Maine. Member of the Handy Colony in Marshall, Illinois, 1953, 1955-57. Includes Robb's journal, 1969-1981, recording personal incidents, ideas for poetry and works in progress; approximately 130 handwritten and typed manuscripts of poems, often with multiple versions and drafts; two letters from former Handy Colony writer Charles Stevenson Wright to Robb, 1965; eight letters from Lowney Handy to Robb, 1959-1963, including...

Scope and Contents William H. Duhart (b. 1921) was one of two African American writers at the Handy Writers Colony in Marshall, Illinois. He worked at the Colony after his release from state prison in Waupun, Wisconsin in 1957, and published his first novel, The Deadly-Pay-Off, in 1958. Correspondence, February 1, 1956-October 22, 1956 This series includes correspondence between Lowney Handy and members of the Wisconsin State Parole Board at the prison in Waupun, Wisconsin where Duhart was...

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The books in the collection were given to Tinks Howe by Lowney Handy during the period between 1945 and 1950. The collection was donated by Helen Howe, Tink's wife. The letters are in the period of 1949-50 and are between Lowney Handy, Tinks Howe, James Jones, Mitch (Scribner editor for From Here to Eternity), and Willie (another writer). Tinks traveled with Lowney and the group at various times during this period and served as their sponsor on a regular basis to help with expenses.

Scope and Contents James Jones Literary Society, founded in 1991, became a national organization devoted to promoting the general and academic interests in the literary works and life of Robinson, Illinois native - James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity,The Thin Red Line, and others.This collection consists of the James Jones Literary Society records including board meeting minutes, membership rolls, event programs, newspaper articles, photographs of members and events, and copies of the...

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Record Series consists of Emplyee Information Bulletins, CIPCO monthly news magazines, Customer and Rate Data, and Annual Reports of the company. This collection was a gift to the UIS archives from former Sangamon State University Archivist Dean Debolt.

Scope and Contents This disk contains a collection of interviews of recycling activists who met at the Blue Mountain Center at Blue Mountain Lake, New York on June 1-3, 2007. The interviews were held in a chain format with each interviewer/ interviewee pair switching roles and performing a second interview after the first. The participants include 14 prominent members of the recycling field with discussions held in 22 separate audio tracks. Each participant is asked a series of questions from an established...

Scope and Contents A collection of materials related to recycling projects in Saratoga County, NY during the late 1980s and 1990s. The contents serve to provide historical background on the recycling movement and its implementation in the county. Included are newspaper clippings, e-mail correspondences, a brochure, a mouse-pad, and a book cover. Dan Knapp and the Institute for Local Self Reliance are responsible for coordinating the collections of material related to recycling for donation to the UIS...