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MC81. Robert Guymon Collection, 1831-1968
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-81
Scope and Contents
Collection of documents and postcards related to the history of Springfield, Illinois, including letters written by Springfield founding father Elijah Iles (1831), Illinois Governor and Senator Shelby Cullom (1880), Illinois Congressman William Springer (1883), Springfield businessman Jabez Capps (1874), and Logan Hay (1942); documents related to the Post #1 of the Grand Army of the Republic in Decatur and the Freemasons of Springfield; sixteen historic postcards of Springfield scenes,...
Dates:
Created: 1831 - 1942; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1995
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC82. Chandler Family Letters, 1850-1874
Collection — Container: MC82
Identifier: MC-82
Scope and Contents
Letters of the Chandler family of Chandlerville, Illinois, largely between Louisa Chandler Frackleton and members of her family. Correspondents include Louisa's father, Dr. Charles Chandler (1806-1879); her mother Clarysa Chandler; her brothers Charles E. and Harrison T. Chandler; and her cousin Calvin E. Child. Also included is one page from an account ledger, a newspaper article, a photograph of Dr. Chandler, and a "Historical Vignette" on Dr. Chandler, the founder of Chandlerville, Cass...
Dates:
Created: 1850 - 1874; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1981
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC83. Amnesty International Adoption Group #218, Springfield, Illinois, Records, 1975-2001
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-83
Scope and Contents
Letters, petitions, flyers, brochures, collected newspaper and magazine articles, meeting minutes, attendance sheets, and memoranda generated by the Springfield affiliate of Amnesty International. Includes letters (some in French) written by Richard Kaige and other members of Adoption Group #218 on behalf of prisoners of conscience to foreign dignitaries and heads of state. The subjects of these letters include the treatment of political prisoners in Zaire, human rights abuses in El...
Dates:
Created: 1975 - 2001; Other: Date acquired: 06/12/1996
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC84. Clarence W. Klassen, Love Canal Collection, 1981-1996
Collection — Box: 2&3
Identifier: MC-84
Scope and Contents
Chief Sanitary Engineer for the State of Illinois, 1935-1970, first director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and environmental consultant. Served as an expert witness at a trial, 1979-1994, regarding the dumping of toxic wastes at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. Love Canal was dug in the 1890s, used as a chemical dump, and later filled in and developed for housing. The area was declared unsafe and 239 families were evacuated in 1978. The Federal Government, State of...
Dates:
Created: 1981 - 1996; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1997
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC85. City Water, Light and Power/Lake Springfield, Records, 1939-1974
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-85
Scope and Contents
Maps, brochures, publications and reports concerning Willis J. and Charles H. Spaulding, City Water, Light and Power, Lake Springfield and the development of the gas, electric and street railway business in Springfield. Also a bibliography on CWLP and a proposed environmental policy for Lake Springfield (1974). Published items include "Rules, Regulations and Official Map of Lake Springfield" (ca. 1970), "Official Map of the City of Springfield, Illinois - Souvenir Edition" (ca. 1968), "A...
Dates:
Created: 1939 - 1974; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1977
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC86. Michael Townsend, Micro-Radio Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-86
Scope and Contents
Records, collected literature, and audio and videotapes concerning the unlicensed, low-power radio station of Mbanna Kantako of Springfield, Illinois, and the micro-radio movement in general. The efforts of the FCC to shut down Kantako's radio station attracted international press attention. This material was largely collected or created by Michael Townsend, an associate professor of Child, Family and Community Services at UIS. Its primary focus is Mbanna Kantako (originally...
Dates:
Created: 1989 - 2002; Other: Date acquired: 10/26/1998
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC87. George C. Hoffmann Papers, 1960-1991
Collection
Identifier: MC-87
Scope and Contents
Springfield lawyer beginning practice in 1928; Chairman of the Springfield Committee for Higher Education (1960-1967); attorney for Sangamon State University on a retainer basis; and Springfield civic leader. Correspondence, memos, news clippings, reports, receipts, contracts, maps, and studies, chiefly 1965-1975, documenting the struggle to establish Sangamon State University and the university's legal transactions. The substance of the collection concerns higher education in...
Dates:
Created: 1960 - 1991
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC88. George M. Irwin Papers, 1955-1982
Collection
Identifier: MC-88
Scope and Contents
Official and personal papers of a Quincy, Illinois business executive and patron of the arts. Chairman of the Board of the Quincy Compressor Division of Colt Industries, and Chairman of the Board of the Irwin Paper Company. Founder of the Quincy Symphony Orchestra (1948), first chairman of the Illinois Arts Council (1963-1971), founder and chair of the Associated Councils of the Arts (1962-1972), consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts (1960s-1970s), president of the Quincy...
Dates:
Created: 1955 - 1982; Other: Date acquired: 10/23/1997
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC89. Illinois National Organization for Women, 1974-2000
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-89
Scope and Contents
The Illinois chapter of the National Organization for Women was founded in 1971. The first organizational meeting was held in the Chicago area and Irene Bennet was elected State Coordinator; the chapter's by-laws were passed in 1974. The purpose of NOW is "to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." This collection was compiled by Luellen...
Dates:
Created: 1974 - 2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/16/2001
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
MC90. Jim Grubbs Armed Forces and Small Market Radio Collection, 1951-2001
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-90
Scope and Contents
Jim Grubbs, Assistant Professor of Communication at UIS, was a radio broadcaster for the Far East Network (FEN), stationed in Tokyo, Japan during the 1960s. Later Grubbs was an announcer for WSMI in Litchfield, Illinois. In 1976, Grubbs and several other SSU employees and community members were granted a license for a station (98.7-WNNS) in Springfield. He was recognized by Billboard Magazine as one of the outstanding small-market DJs in the United States in 1971. The...
Dates:
Created: 1951 - 2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/10/2005
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
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