Illinois
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Frank Ellis papers
Collection
Identifier: S0420
Scope and Contents
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence including letter regarding state and local Republican party politics; letters from his daughter while she was a student at the University of Chicago (1909); and a small number of letters regarding his legal affairs. Also included are papers regarding the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, a Civil War veterans organization to which he belonged; various political campaign materials and clippings; and receipts and subscription...
Dates:
1843-1910, bulk 1906-1910
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Frank Ellis papers
Goldfield-Lincoln Mining Company collection
Collection — Folder S1975
Identifier: S1975
Scope and Contents
This collection includes commercially printed brochures and a copy of a typed letter with signature from William Berg and the St. Ives Leasing Company in Chicago, Illinois and Goldfield, Nevada ranging from 1907/08/15 to 1907/10/07 regarding information about mining results and plans.
Dates:
1907
Grant Park, Illinois tornado damage photograph album
Collection — Folder SP112
Identifier: SP112
Scope and Contents
This collection includes loose black-and-white photographs in a photograph album published by Blaesy Studio in Brook, Indiana depicting destruction from a tornado in Grant Park, Illinois on April 21, 1912.
Dates:
1912/04/21
Hensley family collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-019
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research from Ruth Slevin and Evelyn Hensley regarding the Hensley Family. The collection includes, notebooks, family charts, group sheets, notes, and correspondence.
Dates:
n.d., 1940-1951
Found in:
Genealogy
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Hensley family collection
Hide family papers
Collection — Folder S653
Identifier: S0653
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters, memoirs, and genealogical information from John Hide and the Hide family in Missouri, Illinois, and Tennessee ranging from 1854 to 1909.
Dates:
circa 1854-1909
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hide family papers
Hotel advertising cards
Collection — Folder S1548
Identifier: S1548
Scope and Contents
Three hotel advertising cards are mounted on cardboard, three-hole-punched page, of which there are eleven. All of the cards have drawings of the hotel which is advertised. Most of the cards are 2 1/2" high and 6" wide. The oldest one is 1894 (St. Nicholas Hotel, Decatur, Ill.) and the newest are 1917 (The Samer, Salina, Kansas, and The Lee-Huckins Hotel, Oklahoma City, Okla.). The three cards on the first page are: Union Hotel, Port Huron, Mich., November 19, 1903; Hotel Conner, Harpers...
Dates:
1894-1917
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hotel advertising cards
Indiana and Illinois boundary collection
Collection — Folder S1490
Identifier: S1490
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostats of letters copied from the General Land Office (GLO) records regarding the building of a monument at Lake Michigan to mark the Indiana-Illinois boundary line. Ranging from 1834 to 1838, the correspondence includes the following: Elijah Hayward, commissioner of the GLO, to Secretary of the Treasury R.B. (Roger B.) Taney - June 3, 1834; J.M.M. (John M. Moore), chief clerk of the GLO, to Surveyor General Micajah T. Williams at Cincinnati - September 29, 1834;...
Dates:
1834-1838, undated
J. Adam Clark travel journal
Collection — Folder S1103
Identifier: S1103
Scope and Contents
This collection is a copy of the small travel journal used by J. Adam Clark in 1854. Most of the penmanship is too faint to read, perhaps because it was in pencil. On page 30, the writing appears to be in ink and therefore easy to read. He traveled to several places in Michigan. In Chicago, he visited cousin George and "took tea with him." He went to Detroit, Buffalo, and Lancaster. On page 34, he wrote: "I have been gone something over 2 months, have travelled over Michigan, part of Indiana,...
Dates:
1854
Joseph Beeler collection
Collection
Identifier: L014
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of family letters of the Beeler family ranging from 1823 to 1850. The letters relate to family activities, description of Illinois legislature, and general correspondence. The collection also contains two letters from a World War I soldier. Also included in the collection are several volumes: diaries of George M. Beeler (Joseph's son), Joseph Beeler's account book (1836–1849), Fielding Beeler's account books (1847–1879), records of the Northport and Mars Hill Gravel Road...
Dates:
1778-1890s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joseph Beeler collection
Joseph W. Dalrymple papers
Collection — Folder S2603
Identifier: S2603
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of Joseph W. Dalrymple from Rising Sun, Indiana, including letters he wrote to his wife, Jennie, while on business in towns along the Ohio and Missisippi rivers in Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee (1870-1881); correspondence from his partner, John W. Bush, from Rising Sun (1875-1881); letters and invoices from merchants in Cincinnati, New Orleans, Louisville, Natchez (Miss.), and Cairo (Ill.) (1871-1883); and correspondence...
Dates:
1858-1891
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joseph W. Dalrymple papers
