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Mildred E. Carr, a British native, visited the United States between July 31, 1907, and Feb. 28, 1908. Her journal of this trip includes her observations on American people and places. She traveled across the country and into Canada in the company of her friend, Mary Eldridge, of Needham, Mass. ...

This collection contains the personal papers of Mary Turner Carriel and photographs of Henry Frost Carriel. Materials include personal correspondence, speeches and essays, photographs, and Mary Turner Carriel's presentation materials from the Sorosis Club. Mary Turner Carriel (1845-1928) was the daughter of Jonathan Baldwin Turner (1805-1899), an educational activist and leading ...

William B. Goss, clerk of Carroll County, kept this 40-page estray book between 1839 and 1843, to record stray animals found in the county, and to document, through declarations of witnesses, their return to their owners. Among the missing animals were hogs, horses, and cows.

This receipt certifies that C. M. Carroll of St. Clairsville, Ohio, received two certificates of discharge from James Hall on Feb. 27, 1866. The certificates discharged Hall from the U. S. Army on Dec. 31, 1863, and Nov. 21, 1865.

This letter of Jan. 1, 1833, refers to a bill that Peter Cartwright proposed to introduce in the state legislature at Vandalia "to carry the State Seminary to Springfield." R. Allan Stephens of Springfield, Ill., gave this photostat to the Survey in 1936.

The collection consists of a diary, a photograph, and two letters, mainly documenting the Civil War service of Jonathan A. Catlin in the Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Jonathan A. Catlin joined Company G of the 52[sup]nd[/sup] Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1861. The 52[sup]nd[/sup] Illinois Volunteer Infantry was engaged in the Battle of ...

In 1856, the Grand Prairie Bank of Urbana, Illinois, opened a branch in West Urbana (now Champaign). The directors constructed a brick building for the branch, which was completed in 1858. After two months, the branch dissolved into the Cattle Bank, which only survived until 1861. From 1865 to 1971, ...

In 1856, the Grand Prairie Bank of Urbana, Illinois, opened a branch in West Urbana (now Champaign). The directors constructed a brick building for the branch, which was completed in 1858. After two months, the branch dissolved into the Cattle Bank, which only survived until 1861. From 1865 to 1971, ...

In 1856, the Grand Prairie Bank of Urbana, Illinois, opened a branch in West Urbana (now Champaign). The directors constructed a brick building for the branch, which was completed in 1858. After two months, the branch dissolved into the Cattle Bank, which only survived until 1861. From 1865 to 1971, ...

In 1856, the Grand Prairie Bank of Urbana, Illinois, opened a branch in West Urbana (now Champaign). The directors constructed a brick building for the branch, which was completed in 1858. After two months, the branch dissolved into the Cattle Bank, which only survived until 1861. From 1865 to 1971, ...

This collection consists of issues of [i]Jewish Community Journal[/i], a periodical published by the Central Illinois Jewish Federation from 1968 to 1991. Under the tagline, "Serving Central Illinois," the [i]Journal[/i] updated its readers on local and international events, commented on social issues, and highlighted notable Jewish persons in contemporary scholarship ...

This collection contains 71 photographs taken by Kaufman & Fabry, the official photographers for Chicago's Century of Progress International Exposition. A majority of the photographs are professionally mounted and feature notes dating them between 1931 and 1933. Many of the photographs are exterior shots of the main exhibition buildings, but ...

This collection consists of one volume of tickets and passes from the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair pasted onto 36 pages. The volume was compiled by Ernst Hertzberg & Sons, bookbinders in Chicago. Ernst Hertzberg was born in 1853 and immigrated to Chicago from Gramzow, Germany when he was about 13. Hertzberg ...

Addressed to Harry W. Chadwick of Urbana, Ill., this letter was written from Milan, Italy, by "coz Fred," who worked for the American Red Cross in Milan. The letter describes conditions in Italy as of Dec. 1, 1918, and a trip to call on the Countess Visconti, the King's aunt, ...

Sam Chamberlain, a volunteer attached to Gen. John E. Wool's army in the U.S.-Mexican War, wrote and illustrated a diary of his adventures, later published as [i]My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue [/i](1956). This manuscript, the "Storming of Monterey," first appeared as an appendix in William H. Goetzmann's edition ...

This official history of the Champaign Business and Professional Women's Club was compiled in one volume in 1938, with 16 annual typescripts added from 1938 to 1953. Together they form a chronicle of the organization and its activities for 30 years. This collection is supplemented and updated by Through the Years ...

This collection contains the final reports of several Champaign County organizations obtained by the War Records Committee under the Champaign County Council of Defense as well as records of the Four Minute Men. After World War I, the Champaign County Council of Defense collected county war records from the Champaign County ...

The collection contains exercise books, annual examinations, and graduation essays from Urbana schools as well as rural schools in Champaign County, 1877-93. Representative work includes exercises in reading, spelling, grammar, history, geography, arithmetic, geometry, botany, physics, and drawing, done by students from primary grades through high school. The collection ...

The Champaign Public Library and Burnham Athenaeum was located at 306 W. Church Street in Champaign. The building was named for Albert C. Burnham who, in 1895, donated the site and $15,000 for the construction of a new public library.  The neo-classical, fireproof building was the design of architect Julius ...

This scrapbook was used by the members of the Champaign Rotary Club to record club and community activities as well as individuals' careers and affiliations. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, programs, membership lists, photographs, correspondence, posters, flyers, and other items documenting the group's activities between 1976 and 1978.

The Champaign Urbana Jewish Federation (CUJF) is a non-profit organization that seeks to serve the needs of Jewish communities in Champaign-Urbana and beyond. This collection reflects CUJF’s charitable mission and its contributions to the Jewish community of Champaign-Urbana. CUJF was founded in the late 1920s-early 1930s by members of the Jewish ...

This collection is comprised of records from the Champaign-Urbana Area Home Economists (CUAHE) organization. The CUAHE sought to "provide a way for homemakers to keep up with new developments, to provide professional and social contacts for home economist homemakers, and to provide exchanges of ideas in different age groups and ...

This collection consists of photographs, primarily portraits, that appeared in the [i]Champaign-Urbana Courier[/i] (1877-1979) during its last 20 years of operation. The collection includes about 550 photographs, a small subset of those that would have been published during this time period, as well as a limited number of related newspaper ...

Peace Action, or SANE/Freeze, is a grassroots peace organization that was formed through the merger of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (also known as "The Freeze"). The organization's founding mission is to stop violence and war throughout the world, to stop weapons ...

The Champaign-Urbana Peace Council was formed in 1950 to promote "world peace through just and democratic means." Affiliated with local churches and such national groups as the Federation of Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, and CARE, the group was supported by voluntary contributions. With 93 members by 1960, the Council ...

George Chapin prepared this manuscript entitled "Military History of the University of Illinois, 1868-1923" in his position as secretary of the Committee on the Participation of the University of Illinois in the World War. This 1,119-page study describes the development of the military department of the University and the involvement ...

This collection contains two volumes of records, a ledger and a letterbook, from Sidney W. Chapman, dating from 1863 to 1866. Chapman worked for the New York Central Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, during this period, and later was a lumber merchant in Bushnell, Illinois. Sidney W. Chapman was born on August ...

The volumes in this collection are day books of a general store in Charles Town, Jefferson County, Va. (now W. Va.), documenting itemized lists of sales to various individuals. The first volume records the sale of dry goods, yard goods, clothing, and liquor, while the second volume shows sales of ...

Fred Charles (1872-1911), who was raised in Aurora and Austin (Chicago), Ill., received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Northwestern University. He taught biology first at Lake View High School in Chicago and then, 1899-1909, at the Northern Illinois State Normal School (Northern Illinois University). In 1909, he became assistant ...

Written in ink on this item are the words "Genuine piece / of / Charter Oak / Hartford [Conn.]." Affixed to the item is a label which adds that it was "Given to Laurel Goodman / in that city, in June 1857 / by Louis Lippoldt." Also written on the ...

This collection contains a letter from Sophia May Chase (nee Ingraham) to her husband, Reverend Philander Chase, written in 1840. Philander Chase (1775-1852) was an Episcopal bishop, beginning his career in western New York state as a preacher. He moved to New Orleans in the early 19[sup]th[/sup] century, where he organized ...

In 1837, George W. Chase moved from Portland, Maine, to Dixon, Ill. By 1840 he was a clerk in the Lee County Circuit Court, and later served as the first County Recorder. Chase's papers, consisting mostly of letters, concern legislative matters in Springfield. In addition, several personal letters relate to ...

The collection contains genealogical information on the Chatfield family as well as a transcript of a letter from Chatfield to his brother Robert on Jan. 3, 1843. The letter describes many of the activities involved in establishing a farm on the Midwestern prairie, and discusses produce prices, building his cabin, ...

This collection of records includes drawings of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, board meeting minutes from 1828 to 1919, and related legislation. The original records, which are held by the Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, were microfilmed by the Delaware State Archives, Dover, in 1960. Ralph D. Gray donated the microfilm ...

Ezra E. Chester was born near Columbus, Ohio, in 1837. In 1857, he moved to Champaign County, Ill., where he bred shorthorn cattle and grew seed corn. He served as a member of the State Board of Agriculture, the Illinois Board of World's Fair Commissioners, the Illinois Farmer's Institute, and ...

During July 1827, the citizens of Chicago felt vulnerable to an attack on their city and Fort Dearborn due to unrest among the Winnebago. At the request of Chicago's leading citizens, fifty soldiers from Vermilion County came to their aid, but the attack never came as peace was made with ...

These petitions were sent to Gov. John P. Altgeld in support of Dr. F. Scheuermann, president of the Chicago College of Midwifery. Scheuermann was seeking recognition of his college by the State Board of Health. The Survey purchased the collection in 2001.

This collection contains an account book from an unidentified merchant filled with notes of consignment for the year 1866, as well as family expense records from 1873-1886. The account book records consignment of food items such as eggs, butter, chicken, beeswax, potatoes, turkey, geese, and rabbit for the year 1866. These ...

This collection contains a report from the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination on the Cicero Riots of 1951. The report was compiled by Dr. Homer A. Jack. The Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination was a non-profit organization founded in 1943. The Council worked alongside the Chicago NAACP, ...

In the late nineteenth century, untreated sewage and the diseases it caused were among Chicago's most serious problems. To remedy this, the city built a canal to connect Lake Michigan to the rivers of the Mississippi Basin, in an effort to reverse the flow of the Chicago River and wash ...