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Williams, Elvera L. (1913-2001): Memoir
Collection — Container: Memoir
Identifier: O-W671
Scope and Contents
INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION
Elvera L. Williams, married to James D. Williams, discusses her foreign living experiences with the IIAA as a wife, mother, and as a woman in the 1940's and '50's. In Brazil and the Amazon Valley: living conditions, language problems, the Brazilian people, electricity, shopping, weather and climate, housing and housekeeping, marketing, insects and rodents, and recreation. In Mexico: culture shock, housekeeping and marketing, children, Mexicans,...
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Williams, Gale b. 1922: Interview and Memoir
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: O-W672
Scope and Contents
ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM
Gale Williams, Republican member of the Illinois House of Represen-tatives 1961-65 and 1967-73, discusses the issues of his years in the General Assembly: legislative and judicial reform, economic development, transportation, conservation, and agriculture, reapportionment, patronage and public employees, and leaving the legislature. He also discusses his years before the General Assembly: family and farm life near the southern Illinois town of...
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Williams, James D. b. 1914: Memoir
Collection — Container: Memoir
Identifier: O-W673
Scope and Contents
INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION
James D. Williams, civil and sanitary engineer for IIAA 1943-46 and 1956-61, married to Elvera Williams, discusses his experiences and work with the IIAA and successor agencies in Brazil, Guatemala, and Mexico: duties and responsibilities, IIAA policies, organization, economics, and staff; each country's economics, government, society, climate, and culture; and U.S. policies, politics and involvement in foreign affairs. He discusses the Amazon...
Dates:
Created: 1984 - 1985
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
Williams, Marie South (1893-1989): Interview and Memoir
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: O-W674
Scope and Contents
Marie South Williams recalls rural life in southern Illinois and in Springfield during the early 20th century: family and farm life in DeSoto, Illinois, her grandmothers, household chores, homemade foods and remedies, holidays, crops, African Americans and discrimination, early schooling and at Carbondale, her husband, Frank Williams, teaching school, gangsters in Williamson County, Depression and prohibition, Charles Lindbergh, the 1925 tornado, coal mining and the mine wars, and...
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Other: Dummy Date
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Williams, T. Harry (1909-1979): Interview and Memoir
Collection
Identifier: O-W675
Scope and Contents
T. Harry Williams, history professor and Lincoln scholar, author of Lincoln and the Radicals, briefly discusses the significance of Abraham Lincoln.
1 tape, 60 mins., 13 pp.
Interview by Brian Alexander, 1972
OPEN
See collateral file
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
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UIS Archives/Special Collections
Willis J. Spaulding Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0042
Scope and Contents
This collection contains ‘The Story of the City Records,’ a history of Springfield’s city government compiled by Helen Van Cleave Blankmeyer in honor of the dedication of Lake Springfield and Spaulding Dam. The work documents the adoption of the commission form of city government and the development of city services, including water, gas, electric, streetcars, and the park system. Also included in the collection are programs for the dedication of Lake Springfield and the city’s centennial...
Dates:
1935-1970
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
Wilson, John (1889-1973) and Hazel (1889-1977): Interview and Memoir
Collection
Identifier: O-W694
Scope and Contents
John and Hazel Wilson, African American residents of Springfield, discuss the city, the 1908 race riot, the black community, discrimination, and integrating the theaters.
3 tapes, 270 mins., 42 pp.
Interviews by Jim Krohe, 1971 and Castella Henderson, 1973
OPEN
See collateral file: interviewer's note and photographs.
Dates:
Created: 1971 - 1973
Found in:
UIS Archives/Special Collections
Wilson, Roland (1891-1979): Interview
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: O-W697*
Scope and Contents
Wilson discusses his coal mining experiences in southern Illinois: working with his father, loading coal, wages, cars, mules, a hoisting engineer's duties, boilers, cages, being a boss, accidents, the Depression, roofbolting and pulling pillars, miner's hats and lights, mechanization, undercutting and breast machines, unions and John L. Lewis, ethnicity in the mines, and playing baseball in the minors in Pekin, Illinois. 3 tapes, 150 mins.
Interview by Barbara Herndon, 1976...
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Wilson, Thomas T. and Mary J.: Interview and Memoir
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: O-W698
Scope and Contents
BATES EXPERIMENTAL ROAD PROJECT
Thomas T. and Mary J. Wilson discuss the building of the Bates Experimental Road as well as farm life around Bates and New Berlin, Illinois. They discuss livestock, poultry, stores, and social life with friends.
1 tape, 90 mins., 34 pp.
Interview by Jane E. Knepler, 1975
OPEN
See collateral file
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Other: Dummy Date
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Winkler, Sister Arlene: Interview and Memoir
Collection
Identifier: O-W729
Scope and Contents
Alumni SAGE Society Legacy Oral History Project
Winkler attended Sangamon State University between 1977 and 1981 to obtain a master’s degree in Gerontology. She fondly remembers Professors Gari Lesnoff-Caravaglia, Jeff Chesky, and Harry Berman. Winkler was a member of the Gerontology Club, Sigma Phi Omega, and the Alumni organization.
See also D2/1/3 Alumni SAGE Society Legacy Oral History Project.
Digital audio file, 46 min., 12 pp.
Interview by Janice Spears, 2008
OPEN
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