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This collection contains business records from C.C. Daniels and Co., a corner store in Chicago, Illinois. The records include invoices and price lists from a variety of goods manufacturers and distributors in Chicago, printed advertisements, and handwritten inventories with notes from Daniels from 1871 to 1879. The store C.C. Daniels and ...

This letter, written by the residents of Cahokia, Ill., was a rebuttal to accusations made by Father Pierre Huet de la Valiniere against Father Paul de St. Pierre. The letter, of which the Survey has an early translation, was read orally to Cahokia residents after high Mass on Apr. 22, ...

This collection contains records for the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society. Records include meeting minutes, advertisements, event fliers, newspaper clippings, newsletters in relation to the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society and other materials. According to their website in 2016, the Society was founded in 1976 to "promote both the educational and scientific aspects ...

This collection contains records for the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society. Records include meeting minutes, advertisements, event fliers, newspaper clippings, newsletters in relation to the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society and other materials. According to their website in 2016, the Society was founded in 1976 to "promote both the educational and scientific aspects ...

This collection contains materials relating to the effort of London entrepreneurs and their agents in Illinois to develop the site of Cairo. It includes a report about the site, sent from William Strickland and Richard C. Taylor in Philadelphia to John Wright in London on Dec. 13, 1838. Also included ...

This collection contains research copies of magazine and newspaper articles, books, reports, documents, photographs, and name indexes in both paper and digital formats related to the Cherry Mine disaster. The St. Paul Coal Company opened a mine located in Cherry, Illinois, in 1905. On November 13, 1909, a fire erupted and ...

This collection contains research copies of magazine and newspaper articles, books, reports, documents, photographs, and name indexes in both paper and digital formats related to the Cherry Mine disaster. The St. Paul Coal Company opened a mine located in Cherry, Illinois, in 1905. On November 13, 1909, a fire erupted and ...

This collection consists of one letter dated May 4, 1864, from a Civil War sutler named Sam to a "dear friend." Sam wrote from Camp Butler, a training camp located outside Springfield, Illinois. Sutlers were civilian merchants, either permanently stationed at camps or traveling with a campaigning regiment, who sold goods ...

The hospital at Camp Stotsenberg, Manila Province, Philippines, was built and furnished in 1900. The collection includes an 82-page journal, Mar.1900-July 1901, containing hospital reports, inventories, and correspondence of Asst. Surg. L. K. Graves. There are references to alcoholism and intestinal colic in camp as well as an isolated case ...

Lewis Campbell left Springfield, Ill., for the gold mines of California in 1849. His "Memorandum of my travels to California" provides a brief record for most days of his journey west between Mar. 26 and Sept. 18. He took note of the conditions of the route, the miles covered, and ...

Orin Shepherd Campbell was a practicing physician in Pike County, Ill. This collection contains three volumes of his business records (1836-1839, 1840-1844, and 1853-1857), and also several loose receipts and statements (1860-1865). The account books list the patient, the date of visit, the service rendered, and the fee charged. Of ...

This collection consists of photocopies and transcripts of correspondence and other documents found in various Canadian Archives and Depositories. Many of these materials were collected by the Illinois History Survey under the leadership of Clarence W. Alvord and Theodore C. Pease in the early twentieth century. The Survey collected the ...

Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon was a leading figure in U.S. politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives for a total of 46 years, between 1873 and 1923, and served as Speaker of the House from 1903 to 1911. This ...

Ida Levin Canter was a Jewish resident of Danville, Illinois. This collection contains her diaries and address books, as well as advertisements, visiting cards, and photographs. Ida Levin Canter was born in Boston’s North End on September 20, 1888, to Harris Jacob Levin (1850-1936)—also known as Hirsch Yankel Levin—and Esther Dora ...

Ida Levin Canter was a Jewish resident of Danville, Illinois. This collection contains her diaries and address books, as well as advertisements, visiting cards, and photographs. Ida Levin Canter was born in Boston’s North End on September 20, 1888, to Harris Jacob Levin (1850-1936)—also known as Hirsch Yankel Levin—and Esther Dora ...

This collection contains copied and original materials related to David Dudley Carlton, a Union soldier from Ohio. It includes materials relating to Carlton's Civil War service and his family life. David Dudley Carlton was born near Mantua, Ohio, in 1841 and joined the 42nd Ohio Vol. Inf. as a teamster in ...

In 1850, James Carmichael (1849-1934) moved to Philadelphia, Penn., from Ireland with his family. Carmichael attempted to enlist in the Union Army in 1864, but was turned down by recruiting officers because of his obvious age. Carmichael later moved to Rochelle, Ogle County, Ill., where he farmed for much of his ...

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 ...

This collection contains duplicate 163-page typescripts of George L. Childress' diaries from Jan. 1, 1862 through July 10, 1865. Childress, who served in Co. I, 66th Ill. Vol. Inf., recorded his daily life in the army. He described battles and skirmishes as well as camp life and marching. His unit ...

This collection consists of correspondence from Charles Chiniquy, John Carroll Power, and others to Edwin A. Sherman. Correspondence discussed subjects including Abraham Lincoln, the Roman Catholic Church, and research conducted by Chiniquy and Sherman, both of which culiminated in publications. Charles Chiniquy (1809-1899) was a Canadian Catholic priest who was ordained ...

B. J. Cigrand (1866-1932), a dentist in Aurora, Ill., collected material regarding Abraham Lincoln and wrote brief articles about him. In 1931, he inscribed a proof copy of a title page of [i]Abraham Lincoln, Prophet and Patriot; Ancestry-Service; Critics Answered[/i] (1925) to Albert H. Griffith, a Lincoln collector in Fisk, ...

B. J. Cigrand (1866-1932), a dentist in Aurora, Ill., collected material regarding Abraham Lincoln and wrote brief articles about him. In 1931, he inscribed a proof copy of a title page of [i]Abraham Lincoln, Prophet and Patriot; Ancestry-Service; Critics Answered[/i] (1925) to Albert H. Griffith, a Lincoln collector in Fisk, ...

This collection contains records from Camp New Salem (Civilian Conservation Corps Co. 1683) in Petersburg, Illinois, as well as materials from two alumni organizations of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was launched in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a work relief program for unemployed young ...

This collection contains legislative papers, correspondence, personal and social papers, and printed materials relating to Clabaugh and the General Assembly. The personal and social papers include a biographical sketch; speeches and articles; business records; European travel brochures; and newspaper clippings and editorials on elections, legislative politics, and Clabaugh's retirement. The ...

This collection consists of over 400 brochures, timetables, and other railroad ephemera items assembled by University of Illinois alumnus Roger C. Clark. Dozens of rail lines are represented, including Amtrak, Chicago & Northwestern, Illinois Central, Milwaukee Road, New York Central, Rock Island, Santa Fe, and Union Pacific. In addition to ...

In this Aug. 30, 1846 letter, postmarked from Greenville, Ill., Jacob Clark of Bethel, Bond County, Ill., offers condolences for deaths in the family of his brother, John Clark of Tewksbury, Mass.

This poll book records the votes of 26 citizens in Maysville, Clay County, Ill., for sheriff and coroner, tallied Apr. 14, 1827. The two-page document was loaned to the Survey for copying in 1953.

Frank A. Cleary of Momence, Ill., graduated from St. Viator College, Bourbonais, Ill., in 1911 and became a priest in 1914. He was the pastor of St. Edmunds Church, Watseka, Ill., and of St. Joseph's Church, Crescent City, Ill., 1928-35. In 1934, Cleary was appointed Consultor of Peoria Diocese. The collection ...

A member of Co. I, 20th Ill. Vol. Inf., William Clemans served from Jan. 22, 1863, to July 16, 1865, participating in the battles of Vicksburg and Atlanta. This 29-page typescript is a narrative by Clemans briefly discussing his early life but focusing primarily on his war experiences. The Survey acquired ...

In this invoice of May 4, 1831, James Clemens of St. Louis, bills Hoxsey & Gray, merchants of Carlinville, Ill., for clothing materials, sewing utensils, dry goods, and hardware.

This collection consists of two original letters sent from Governor DeWitt Clinton to Dr. John W. Francis. At the time the letters were written, DeWitt Clinton was Governor of New York and Dr. John W. Francis was a professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. In the letters, ...

These copies of letters from Gov. James Glen of South Carolina to Gov. George Clinton of New York concern Native American affairs in the colonies. The originals are in the Clinton Papers of the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.

Benjamin Coale came to Huntington, Ind., as a school teacher in 1845. He took up farming in 1846, but continued to teach for several more years. This volume includes account records for his farm and house as well as diary entries and lessons on spelling, copying, and algebra.

This press pass, belonging to Chicago educator and journalist Margaret Jane Codd, contains daily admissions tickets to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Margaret Jane Codd (fl. ca. 1890-1920) was a Chicago educator, education and children’s writer, and journalist for educational periodicals. She earned a teaching certificate from the Chicago Board of ...

This collection contains the personal and professional papers, correspondence, photographs, music compositions, and artifacts of Sol Cohen, a violinist, composer, and educator from Urbana, Illinois. Sol B. Cohen was born in Urbana, Illinois, on January 11, 1891, the son of Nathaniel H. Cohen, a prominent Urbana cigar manufacturer, and Addie Bernstein ...

James G. Coke directed the Office of Community Development at the University of Illinois from 1961 to 1965. The Office was funded by the Ford Foundation as part of an experiment to determine the feasibility of urban extension services. Coke studied three Illinois cities--Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield--to assess patterns of ...

Arthur C. Cole joined the history faculty of the University of Illinois in 1912. Before leaving for appointments elsewhere, beginning in 1920, he wrote [i]The Era of the Civil War, 1848-1870, [/i]The Centennial History of Illinois, volume 3 (1919). The notes comprising this collection were used in preparation of that book, ...

This collection contains photostats and transcripts collected and used by Clarence Walworth Alvord in editing [i]Governor Edward Coles, [/i]Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, volume 15 (1920). The materials pertain to charges brought against Coles for his failure to give bond at the time of the manumission of slaves ...

This collection consists of photostats of the correspondence of former Vice President and U.S. Representative Schuyler Colfax. Schuyler Colfax (1823-1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873, during Ulysses Grant's first term as President. Prior to that he ...

In this volume, an unknown author in or near Philadelphia, Pa., compiled an incomplete list of political science and political economy professors by state. Also included is a list of names and local addresses of these professors.

Elizabeth Witt Collins was the widow of William Burrage Collins, for whose family the town of Collinsville, Ill., was named. In this letter of July 25, 1850, Collins, writing from Collinsville, asks Newton Bateman for the payment of a $40 loan from 1842. Wilbur Duncan of Decatur, Ill., donated this letter ...

This collection consists of five stereograph cards (or "stereoviews") from the World's Fair Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition (often called the Chicago World's Fair) was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the ...

The unknown compiler of this volume wrote on various subjects in fields of natural history, including chemistry and geology, but also extending to history, archeology, and mythology. His interests, although wide-ranging, emphasize British and especially Scottish topics. He took notes on his reading and prepared brief papers on many of ...

This collection includes various documents of the Confederate States of America. Among the items in the collection are requisitions, bids, receipts, and War Department warrants 1861-65; certificates for an election in May 1861 of a commissioner of public works in four Virginia counties; guard reports in Jan. 1864 from Confederate ...

Congregation Anshe Knesset Israel (Congregation Israel) was established as a Conservative Jewish congregation in 1915. This collection contains materials representative of the Danville congregation's synagogues, administration, members, liturgy, holidays, organizations, and events spanning its nearly 100-year history. Congregation Israel was incorporated as a Conservative Jewish congregation in 1915. After years of ...

This photograph—likely taken in the mid-1940s—depicts the bar mitzvah of Ted Ross at Congregation Beth Jacob, held at the congregation’s synagogue on the property of Julius Wides between Murphysboro and Carbondale, Illinois. This item illustrates the religious practices of Murphysboro-Carbondale’s Jewish community in the mid-twentieth century. Congregation Beth Jacob was founded ...

In 1830, Otis M. Conkey moved to Illinois from Massachusetts with his parents. He farmed and operated a general store with his son Morton in Homer, where his younger brother, William A. Conkey, a doctor and farmer, also lived. The Conkey family papers contain the financial records of Otis M. and ...

On Jan. 28, 1828, Sherman Converse sent a confidential circular to distinguished American artist, poets, and novelists asking for their participation in a volume of Biographical Sketches of American Artists. The volume was proposed for the expressed purpose of increasing public awareness of, and interest in, the nation's artists. This ...

This 160-page manuscript cook book, for which there is no title page, contains recipes which are arranged by category. Each category is introduced with a watercolor illustration, and there is an index for the recipes of all 13 categories: soups; sauces; fish; poultry and game; meats; entrees; vegetables; pickles; catsup; ...

This collection consists of the account book for the medical practice of Dr. Vaughn B. Corey in Quincy, Illinois, from 1860 to 1870. Vaughn B. Corey (1826-1884) was born in Yates County, New York, in 1828. He became a shoemaker by trade from ages 18 to 20, after which he began ...

This collection contains the personal papers of Carlton J. Corliss. Materials include correspondence, notes, photocopies of Abraham Lincoln's correspondence and court reports, and printed materials such as newspaper clippings and postcards related to Abraham Lincoln and the Illinois Central Railroad. Carlton J. Corliss was an employee of the Illinois Central Railroad ...

The Corn Belt Liberty League, incorporated in 1938, was a grass roots organization founded by Macomb, Ill., farmers to protest the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (AAA). The main provisions of the AAA established acreage allotments, government payments to farmers who took land out of production, and market quotas and ...

Built in the 1830s, Hickory Hill, or the Old Slave House, was the home of John Hart Crenshaw (1797-1871), a salt miner and landowner in Gallatin County, Ill. In 1913, the Sisk family purchased the property, and operated Hickory Hill as a tourist attraction from 1926 to 1996. The State ...

In 1828, five Corrie brothers from Scotland and England settled in Wabash County, Ill. One of these was Robert Corrie (1779-1863) who, with his wife Sarah (1785-1864), maintained an active correspondence with other members of the family, particularly those who remained in England. The correspondence was continued by their children: ...

This collection contains an 1846 account book, owned by John A. Mitchell, containing lists of [i]Courier [/i]subscribers and personal financial accounts. Abraham Lincoln's 1846 subscription is recorded in this volume. The [i]Illinois Courier [/i]was founded in Charleston, Illinois, in 1840, and was the town's only newspaper until 1857. The newspaper aligned ...

This collection consists of student papers written for history courses offered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The collection is comprised of more than 475 course papers written by University of Illinois students between 1962 and 1984. The papers mainly discuss topics related to Illinois history and immigration. Many of ...

Alice Cozine taught English and American history at Coffeen High School in East Saint Louis, Ill. This grade record book contains students' names and grades, attendance records, a short bibliography of topical magazine articles, and the cast list of a school play. Dwain Berggren of the Illinois State Geological Survey donated ...

This collection contains the transcribed personal letters of Clarence Lincoln Crabbs, a University of Illinois alumnus and engineer. Clarence Lincoln Crabbs (b. 1866) was born in Decatur, Indiana, and raised in Gibson City, Illinois. In 1890, he graduated first in his class at the University of Illinois. As a student, Crabbs ...

This collection consists of correspondence addressed to or relating to Reverend William Crain and his family, financial records such as receipts and promissory notes, and other materials such as legal documents and a typed family history, dating from 1829-1859. Reverend William Crain was born in Virginia in 1802. He trained as ...

This collection contains fifty-eight photographs of the Roughton, Cramer, and Carver families. Samuel Roughton, who was born in England in 1836, moved to Illinois in 1855. He and his family settled in Urbana, Illinois, where Samuel worked in mills and coal mines. Their eldest son, William H. Roughton, was born in ...

The manuscript in this collection, "The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne's War," was written by Verner Crane, a history faculty member at the University of Michigan. Sent to Clarence W. Alvord on Dec. 3, 1918, it was published in the[i] American Historical Review[/i], Apr. 1919. The collection also includes three ...

George T. Crawford represented Westmoreland County at the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1837. The collection includes excerpts from Crawford's speech proposing (unsuccessfully) that a governor's veto be overridden by a three-fifths rather than a two-thirds vote of the legislature. The collection also includes letters written to Crawford and drafts of his ...

W. T. Craycroft, an agent of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, wrote these letters to Henry Abbot concerning Abbot's insurance policy. Craycroft and Albion Pease were managers of the insurance company's office in Kansas City, Mo.

Corp. Edward W. Crippin, who served in Co. C, 27th Ill. Vol. Inf., kept this diary throughout much of his service in the Civil War. The nearly daily entries begin in Aug. 1861, describing training camp life in Cairo, Ill. As the war progressed, Crippin documented the actions of his ...

In this transcript, written on Dec. 21, 1768, George Croghan denies that he and William Trent are still indebted to Jeremiah Warder and David Franks from Philadelphia, Pa. The original is in the Missouri Historical Society.

This collection contains facsimile reproductions of letters sent to and from Don Francisco Cruzat, Spanish Commandant of St. Louis. The first letter, dated 1780, is an appeal written to Cruzat by the inhabitants of Post Vincennes, located in what is now Indiana. In their letter, the citizens of Post Vincennes ask ...

This collection consists of correspondence and other papers belonging to Shelby Cullom, a prominent Illinois politician during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shelby Moore Cullom (1829-1914) began his political career as Springfield's City Attorney in 1855. Throughout his career Cullom served as a presidential elector, member of both the ...

Shelby Moore Cullom was a lawyer and statesman who served as an Illinois state representative, 1860-61, 1872-74; congressman, 1865-71; governor, 1876-83; and senator, 1883-1913. The collection contains forty-six letters, two proclamations, and three certificates. The correspondence, from Cullom's years as a congressman, governor, and senator, includes requests for appointed positions, ...

This collection consists of a letter from United States Senator Shelby Cullom to Senator Boies Penrose requesting his support of a resolution to approve the site and design of the Lincoln Memorial. Shelby Moore Cullom (1829-1914) was a lawyer and Republican politician from Illinois, beginning his political career as Springfield's City ...

Karl Culmann, a German engineer, traveled through the United States and England, 1848-50, keeping a journal of his observations. Culmann gave particular attention to American bridges, canals, water-works, industrial machinery, steamboats, and other innovations. In 1973, Max Steinhaus of Beverly Hills, Calif., gave to the Survey his translation of passages ...

Clara Culver Culbertson, a native of Carlisle, Pa., taught school in Mount Holly Springs, Md., before marrying Dr. Samuel D. Culbertson in 1866. The material in the collection includes a number of Civil War letters written by Clara's brother, Joseph E. Culver, who served in the 39th Pa. Vol. Inf. ...

This collection is comprised of records from the Cunningham Children's Home, located in Urbana, Illinois. Records include ledgers, correspondence, reports, yearbooks, minutes, newsletters, photographs, newspaper articles, and other materials. The Cunningham Children's Home was founded in 1894 by two of Champaign County's early settlers, Judge Joseph O. Cunningham and his wife ...

Joseph Cunningham, who moved to Urbana, Ill., in 1853, published the Urbana Union, 1853-58, and was a delegate to the 1856 Republican state convention in Bloomington. He was also a lawyer, county judge, writer on various legal and local subjects, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Illinois ...

In 1853, Albert Palmer Cunningham (1832-93) came to Champaign County, Ill., with his brother Joseph. A. P. Cunningham, who served in the 76th Ill. Vol. Inf., was well-known for his drug business. It became known as A. P. Cunningham and Sons after his sons, George and Edwin, joined the business. ...

This collection consists of a letter from Josiah S. Currey to Evarts B. Greene and a newspaper clipping, both of which are related to Currey's 1908 address given to the Illinois State Historical Society. Josiah Seymour Currey was born on October 2, 1844 near Peekskill, NY and moved to Illinois in ...

This collection includes a dozen pencil sketches by Mrs. H. S. Currie of historic buildings in Kaskaskia, Ill. Mrs. Currie "spent twenty years of [her] life in Kaskaskia," but was living in Pueblo, Colorado, by the early 1900s. Mrs. Currie accompanied each sketch with information on the histories and residents of ...

This collection contains one letter from Reverend Lathrop Willis Curtis addressed to his brother, Reverend Otis Freeman Curtis. Rev. Curtis was born January 9, 1800 in Hanover, New Hampshire. He moved to Fulton County, Illinois in 1832. Here he continued his practice as a physician, but eventually turned to farming due ...

These letters to Henry B. Curtis (b. 1799), a lawyer in Knox County, Ohio, primarily concern legal issues involving claims to land and money. There are also two personal letters to Curtis from his brother, Joseph Eaton, of Scott County, Ill. Wilbur Duncan of Decatur, Ill., donated these letters to the ...

James Burrill Curtis (1822-98) and his brother, George William Curtis (1824-92), were students at the school that formed part of the Brook Farm Community, West Roxbury, Mass. In these letters to his father, George, Curtis discusses family matters, financial issues, and his life at Brook Farm. Arthur E. Bestor, Jr. acquired ...

This collection consists of the autobiography of Cyrus Emery of Prophetstown, Illinois. Cyrus Emery was born in 1830 in Sanford, York County, Maine. In 1854 he and his wife travelled west from Boston, Massachusetts, to settle in Prophetstown, Illinois. Emery worked in many capacities during his lifetime, including as a farmhand, ...