Illinois
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Francis Marion Van Pelt family collection
Collection
Identifier: L168
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Van Pelt family correspondence ranging from 1863 to 1929 and includes letters written by Frank, Madge and their children; letters sent to Frank's mother, Almira Van Pelt Smith, by her children and grandchildren; and letters sent by Madge's relatives in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. Family documents range from 1879 to 1936 and include Frank's promotion and resignation certificates from the Railway Mail Service; "The Bee-Hive" cover pages from College Temple of...
Dates:
1861-1936
Frank Ellis papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0420
Scope and Contents
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence, papers, campaign materials, clippings, receipts, and ephemera from Frank Ellis and family in Delaware County, Indiana and Illinois, ranging from 1843-1910, regarding his family, legal affairs, the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, local and state Republican Party politics and political elections, and his daughter's time as a student at the University of Chicago in 1909.Correspondents include John A. M. Adair,...
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
Hasselman and Blood family papers
Collection
Identifier: L385
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial documents, papers, photographs, maps, indentures, and ephemera from the Hasselman and Blood families and Eagle Machine Works in Indianapolis and other places in Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1829 to 1936 and undated, regarding the family, land ownership, and Eagle machine Works. Notable items include correspondence from May Wright Sewall and a wedding invitation for Benjamin Harrison's daughter, Mary Scott Harrison...
Dates:
1829-1936, undated
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
