Papers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
MC68. Sojourn House Records, 1975, 1979-1980
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-68
Scope and Contents
Shelter for women and children who are abused, abandoned, or undergoing personal or family crises. Founded in Springfield in 1975.
List of original members and letter explaining goals and needs to SSU faculty, 1975; newsletters, clippings, brochure, position paper and manuscript draft by Pat Langley regarding the formation of the Sojourn House and its activities, 1979-80.
Dates:
Created: 1975 - 1980
MC69. Sangamon Alliance for Equality (SAFE), Records, 1985-1986
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-69
Scope and Contents
Local anti-apartheid organization founded by Rich Miller and Brian Monahan as a project for the SSU class "Organizing for Peace," 1985.
Constitution, leaflets, flyers, agendas, journal articles, receipts, and notes documenting SAFE's fund raising, educational and protest activities. Of note are materials concerning a demonstration to protest the appearance of Kurt von Schirding, South African Ambassador to the United Nations, at Lincoln Land Community College in 1986.
Dates:
Created: 1985 - 1986; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1986
MC77. Nelson O. Howarth Papers, 1944-1989
Collection
Identifier: MC-77
Scope and Contents
Papers of Nelson Howarth, Assistant State's Attorney for Sangamon County, Illinois 1948-1949, Mayor of Springfield 1955-1959 and 1963-1971. Born in Green County, Indiana and raised on farms in Illinois, he received a law degree from the University of Illinois in 1934 and was an attorney in private practice when not in public office. Correspondence, transcripts of speeches and radio broadcasts, court records, clippings, photographs, brochures, programs and memorabilia documenting...
Dates:
Created: 1944 - 1989; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1994
MC80. Eugene B. Redmond Papers, 1977-1994
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-80
Scope and Contents
Poet laureate of East Saint Louis, Illinois and professor of English and Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Redmond is the author or editor of 18 volumes, founding editor of Drumvoices Revue, and and associate publisher of Literati Internationale and The Original Blues Annual. In 1993 he won the American Book Award for The Eye in the Ceiling and he serves as the literary executor of the Henry Dumas estate. Programs, bulletins, memoranda,...
Dates:
Created: 1977 - 1994; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1995
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
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
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
MC94. William Howarth Papers, 1963-1987
Collection
Identifier: MC-94
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...
Dates:
Created: 1963 - 1987; Other: Date acquired: 07/07/2008
MC42/1. Steven R. Carter Papers, 1972-1975
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-42/1
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...
Dates:
Created: 1972 - 1975; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1995
MC42/3. Charles T. Robb Papers, 1951-1997
Collection
Identifier: MC-42/3
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...
Dates:
Created: 1951 - 1997; Other: Date acquired: 09/04/1997