Records
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 230 Collections and/or Records:
MC13. Willis J. Spaulding Papers, 1890-1937
Collection
Identifier: MC-13
Scope and Contents
Springfield Superintendent of Water Works, 1909-1911, and Commissioner of Public Property, 1911-1943. Elevated the municipal water plant to one of national distinction, created the electric utility and placed it on a paying basis, and led the movement for the building of Lake Springfield.Typescript carbon of "The Story of the City Records," compiled by Helen V. C. Blankmeyer in honor of the dedication of Lake Springfield and Spaulding Dam, 1935; a letter from playwright William...
Dates:
Created: 1890 - 1937; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1974
MC14. Springfield Illinois High Schools, Cafeteria records, 1918-1943
Collection
Identifier: MC-14
Scope and Contents
Financial records for the cafeterias of Springfield High School, 1918-1941; Feitshans High School, 1937-1941; and Lanphier High school, 1939-1943. Ledgers contain lists of accounts with businesses, showing quantity and prices of items purchased; and lists of equipment, machinery repairs and new equipment purchases. Each volume covers a school year. The Springfield High School volumes show expenditures for food supplies, equipment, maintenance, and repair. The Feitshans and...
Dates:
Created: 1918 - 1943; Other: Date acquired: 07/00/1980
MC15. Springfield World Federalist Association Records, 1948-2001
Collection
Identifier: MC-15
Scope and Contents
The Springfield World Federalist Association Records, 1948-73, consist of 3.85 cubic feet of minutes, correspondence, newsletters, annual reports, topical files, and collected publications. The collection documents the Federalist philosophy and goals, and the organizational structure, activities, and concerns of the local chapter, particularly fund-raising, membership, and educational efforts, and its relations with the national and regional Federalist organizations.Collection...
Dates:
Created: 1948 - 2001
MC17. Center for Alternative Education Records, 1970-1982
Collection
Identifier: MC-17
Scope and Contents
Not-for-profit alternative secondary school founded in Springfield in 1970 as the The Learning Community. Name changed to the Center for Alternative Education in 1980. In its early years, many students were children of Sangamon State University professors. Directors included Joe McHugh and Nancy Ranyard. Due to financial problems, the Center closed in 1982.
Minutes, by-laws, articles of incorporation, reports, contracts, applications, correspondence, schedules, journals, student...
Dates:
Created: 1970 - 1982; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983
MC19. Spoon River Cooperative Association, Inc., Records, 1968-1979
Collection
Identifier: MC-19
Scope and Contents
Consumer book cooperative founded along Rochdale principles by SSU-affiliated persons in 1971. Specialized in small press, radical and underground titles. Viewed as a "vehicle for social change" with "anarcho-pacifist politics." Published "Illinois People's History Calendars," 1974 and 1976. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, announcements, posters, recipes, calendars, cookbooks, photographs, contracts, agreements, operating procedures,...
Dates:
Created: 1968 - 1979
MC20. Different Drummer, School Records, 1971-1972
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-20
Scope and Contents
Records of A Different Drummer, 1971-72, include a collection of philosophical statements and proposals, membership lists, public announcements, correspondence, financial statements, notes and research papers documenting the school's organization, philosophy and curriculum.
A Different Drummer was an alternative school founded in Springfield for students aged 10-18.
Dates:
Created: 1971 - 1972; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1982
MC22. Springfield Consumer Protection Association Records, 1968-1973
Collection
Identifier: MC-22
Scope and Contents
Not-for-profit corporation dedicated to resolving consumer complaints received from the Springfield public. Incorporated on December 28, 1972. Founded by SSU student John J. Jewett as an Applied Study project. Correspondence, consumer complaints, organizational documents, financial records, newspaper clippings, and research materials documenting the Association's foundation, services, organizational structure, finances and research. Includes a research report on market and...
Dates:
Created: 1968 - 1973; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1976
MC23. King Harvest Food Cooperative Records, 1973-1981
Collection
Identifier: MC-23
Scope and Contents
Consumer cooperative founded in Springfield in 1972. Joined the Flatland Federation of Cooperative and Community Organizations in 1978.Minutes, correspondece, by-laws, newsletters, work manuals, inventories, financial records, research materials documenting the Cooperative's philosophy, and documents detailing the goals and organizational structure of the Co-op are included. Also included are docuements detailing membership activities and responsibilities and the day-to-day...
Dates:
Created: 1973 - 1981; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983
MC24. Springfield Coalition for Fair Electricity Rates, Records, 1976-1981
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-24
Scope and Contents
A coalition of individuals and representatives of community formed in 1976 in response to the proposed rate hike by the municipally-owned utility, City Water, Light and Power (CWLP). Dedicated to electric rate reform.Correspondence, announcements, press releases, clippings, reports, pamphlets, position papers, rate schedules, minutes and agendas, comsumer cost comparisons, and sundry other documents concerning the proposed rate hike by CWLP and the oppositions to it by SCFER. ...
Dates:
Created: 1976 - 1981; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983
MC25. DES Action Group Records, 1972-1976
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-25
Scope and Contents
The DES Action Group Records, 1972-76, consists of letters, brochures, timetables, newsletters, news clippings, planning and meeting notes, and collected research material documenting the Group's planning, purpose, and publicity efforts; its public hearing on DES; and its preliminary application to the American Cancer Society for a grant. Also includes some materials of the local "Action Faction" of the New American Movement, including notes and newsletters documenting its relations...
Dates:
Created: 1972 - 1976; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983