Papers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 161 Collections and/or Records:
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
MC42/6. James Jones Literary Society Papers, 1978-2008
Collection — Scrapbook
Identifier: MC-42/6
Scope and Contents
James Jones Literary Society, founded in 1991, became a national organization devoted to promoting the general and academic interests in the literary works and life of Robinson, Illinois native - James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity,The Thin Red Line, and others.This collection consists of the James Jones Literary Society records including board meeting minutes, membership rolls, event programs, newspaper articles, photographs of members and events, and copies of the...
Dates:
Created: 1978 - 2008; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2009
NCACSS Accreditation Papers
Collection
Identifier: UA 0068
Scope and Contents
The Accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (NCACSS) contains self-study reports as well as reports of NCACSS-appointed visiting teams. It also includes memos, history, status, and project status of the institution.
The collection is primarily in reverse chronological order with other reports added in which are mostly in alphabetically by office of origin.
Dates:
1972-1982
North Central Association Self-Study Records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0059
Scope and Contents
This collection contains SSU and UIS self-study records in preparation for North Central Association re-accreditation and to clarify its plans for improving and enhancing its programs and operations. Included in the collection are the working files of the North Central Association Self-Study Committee, the University President or Chancellor, and other members of the university community relating to the development of self-study reports and to North Central Association visits. Records include...
Dates:
1978-2007