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Illinois

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Coleman family photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P019
Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs and a couple postcards and dinner menus from the Coleman family taken in Indianapolis, Indiana, New York, California and other parts of the United States; Paris, France; Japan; United Kingdom; and Chile ranging from 1876 to 1935 and undated regarding family life and travel. Many of the photographs are individual portraits of unidentified family members and friends, while others are snapshots of the Colemans and others on vacation and going...
Dates: 1803-1935, undated

Comstock family papers

 Collection
Identifier: L236
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, legal and business papers, genealogy papers, photographs, a photograph album, greeting cards, notebooks, a journal, poetry, published materials, ephemera, and a leather wallet from the Comstock, Beers, and Hartwell families in Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Missouri, ranging from 1846 to 1962 and undated, regarding family life, education, careers, and business concerns.
Dates: 1846-1962, undated

Covenant Mutual Life Association collection

 Collection — Folder S1614
Identifier: S1614
Scope and Contents This collection contains a two-page letter from B. F. Reinmund, secretary of the Covenant Mutual Life Association, in Galesburg, Illinois to A.C. Daily, Auditor of the State, in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 21, 1899, regarding the employment and firing of H.H. Husted, who stole postage stamps from the company. Included is a typed copy of E. F. Phelps's affidavit about Husted's theft of company property and malicious false statements about the association after he was dismissed.
Dates: 1899

Crosier family papers

 Collection
Identifier: L018
Scope and Contents This collection contains letters from Edward Crosier to Adam Crosier, family letters from Battle Creek, Michigan; Knoxville, Iowa; Seneca and Geneva, New York; Ford County, Illinois; Jacksonville, Oregon; and Harrison County, Indiana, ranging from 1840 to 1901. Also included are letters to Adam Crosier about his surveying work, letters to Lafe Crosier about family and farming, an 1866 campaign circular for Walter Q. Gresham, and comments on a speech by Joseph Albert Wright.
Dates: 1840-1901

E. S. Guilbert collection

 Collection — Folder S0557
Identifier: S0557
Scope and Contents In March 1830, Abraham Lincoln journeyed from southern Indiana to Illinois with his parents. When they went through Vincennes, legend has it that Abraham toured the Western Sun and General Advertiser newspaper office, where he saw his first printing press, and talked to Editor Stout. Mr. Guilbert wrote to Roy H. Garrigus, editor of the Vincennes Sun-Commercial to verify this story, which Mr. Garrigus could not do.Abraham often went to Rockport and borrowed books from Judge John...
Dates: 1828-1830

Ed Johnson photograph collection

 Collection — Folder SP172
Identifier: SP172
Scope and Contents This collection contains 4 black-and-white photographs taken by Ed Johnson ranging from 1930 to circa 1933 in Illinois regarding the Offutt coper shop in Old Salem, Illinois where Abraham Lincoln studied at night and the graves of his father, Thomas Lincoln, his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, and his sweetheart, Ann Rutledge.
Dates: 1930, undated

Edwin K. Steers papers

 Collection
Identifier: L244
Scope and Contents This collection includes legal briefs, political campaign ribbons, newspaper clippings, periodicals, a photograph, and scrapbooks with clippings, correspondence, papers, photographs, documents, ephemera, and ribbons from Edwin K. Steers in Indiana, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., ranging from 1930 to 1964 and undated, concerning his law career, politics, freemasonry, and World War II.There are two oversize periodicals, the July 23, 1944 issue of Yank...
Dates: 1930-1964, undated

Emily Knapp Russell letter

 Collection — Folder S1750
Identifier: S1750
Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed copy of a letter from Emily Knapp Russell in Bentonville, Illinois on 1854/04/28 regarding moving and family life.
Dates: 1854

Ewing family collection

 Collection
Identifier: L323
Scope and Contents This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and...
Dates: 1818-1889

Fogleman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: L251
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, postcards, telegrams, genealgoy material, newspaper clippings, photographs, an autograph book, an account book, a memory notebook, financial documents, and other papers from Ida, David, and Maggie Fogleman, ranging from 1859 to 1950 and undated, concerning family, work, and school life, friendships, and estate planning.

There is also David Fogleman and Margaret W. Moore's marriage certificate dated December 30, 1869 (OB084).
Dates: 1859-1950