Scope and Contents These records include: University Anthem Committee correspondence and sheet music, Compliance Report (6/75), Annual Reports, promotional calendars and the Foundation publications "Horizons" (10-90, 2/91, 7/91) and "Investing in Illinois" (Spring, 1996). Correspondence included: letters regarding various donations, proposed changes in by-laws, list of contributors and proposed membership list. Financial information includes the following: monthly account statements, Reports of the Treasurer...

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Records of the History program include minutes, memos, working papers, project proposals, program proposals and scholarly papers by faculty members. Administrative reports provide an outline of the program's historical development. This collection includes one series (Faculty) that deals with faculty files, papers, and tenure related materials.

This collection has four series: Minutes, Budget, Faculty Files, and History Program Review Committee.

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Faculty Project conducted by Patricia Langley on the subject of pay equity contains court cases, studies of comparatable worth from Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Washington states, national and state legislative information and bibliographies. Files also contain news clippings, journal articles, and statistical figures relation to comparatable worth.

Scope and Contents This collection mainly consists of photo albums created by the International Students Association. The photographs are students and faculty at many events on and off campus that include the following: Annual International Celebration, Honors Breakfast, Commencement, field trips, food sale days, welcome for new international students, summer picnics, fall wiener roasts, and sporting events. There are also many loose photographs, boxes of slides, 2 VCR tapes, plus an award to the...

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Included in this collection is correspondence between the project leaders and Lincoln experts about the remodel of the Lincoln home as well as the other sites around Springfield. Also included in this collection are interviews with Lincoln experts that would be used in the documentary. There are also scripts and drafts of various speeches, presentations, and pamphlets. There are also various articles about Lincoln and his time in Springfield/Illinois.

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...

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...

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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.

Scope and Contents Included in this collection is vast research about the Socialist workers movement with extreme focus on the Progressive Miners of America union including newspaper clippings, articles, interviews, and archival research. There is also extensive research about the people involved with the Progressive Miners of America and their spouses and other similar feminist/feminine auxiliary unions primarily the Illinois Women’s Auxiliary; this research also used similar means as listed...