Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection, 2010 | University of Illinois Archives

By Matthew Short

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Daily Illini

Microfilm of the Daily Illini was scanned and digitally converted into bitonal 300 dpi TIFF files by Northern Micrographics.�  Markup, PDFs, and .PNG derivatives were then created from the TIFFs by Olive Software.

Barcode: 30112100078754

Sub-Series 1: TIFF images

Includes Verbatim Archival Grade DVD-R's with TIFF images. The images on disks 1-8  and 9-11 were scanned from earlier sets of microfilm, in which days and months were spread out across many reels.  If looking for a particular issue from 1916-1945, remember to requests all of the disks for that year.

Disk 1: 09/1916-1921

Barcode: 30112097040056

Disk 2: 1916-1922

Disk reads: reels 1-7, 9-12.  Includes much of the same content that is on Disk 1.

Barcode: 30112097040049

Disk 3: 1922-1923

Barcode: 30112097039926

Disk 4: 1923-1926

Barcode: 30112097039934

Disk 5: 1923-1925

Barcode: 30112097039942

Disk 6: 1926

Barcode: 30112097039959

Disk 7: 1923-1925

reels 8, 13-16

Barcode: 30112097040031

Disk 8: 1924-1926

reels 17-19

Barcode: 30112097040023

Disk 9: 1936-1939

Barcode: 30112097040015

Disk 10: 1936-09/1942

Barcode: 30112097040007

Disk 11: 10/1942-09/1945

Barcode: 30112097039991

Disk 12: 1956-1965

Incomplete coverage until 1962

Barcode: 30112097039983

Disk 13: 1966-05/08/1969

Barcode: 30112097039975

Disk 14: 05/09/1969-05/1972

Barcode: 30112097039967

Disk 15: 06/1972-11/13/1974

Barcode: 30112097040932

Disk 16: 11/14/1974-07/1975

Barcode: 30112097040940

Disk 17: 01/01/1975, 08-12/1975

The 01/01/1975 issue is the annual "New Student" edition.

Barcode: 30112097040957

Disk 18: 1936-1939

Copy of Disk 9

Disk 19: 1936-09/1942

Copy of Disk 10

Disk 20: 10/1942-09/1945

Copy of Disk 11

Disk 21: 1956-1963

Copy 2 (Are these actually Olive files? -CAL)

Disk 22: 1963-1965

Copy 2 (Are these actually Olive files? -CAL)

Disk 23: 1965-1966

Copy 2 (Are these actually Olive files? -CAL)

Disk 24: 1874-8/8/1916 1/2

Disk 25: 1874-8/8/1916 2/2

Disk 26: 10/03/1945-6/30/1949

Disc is mislabeled as "October 3, 1945 - June 30, 1945"

Disk 27: 07/01/1949-03/31/1954

Disc 28: 04/01/1954-12/19/1959

Disk 29: 01/05/1960-03/23/1962

Disk 30: 02/1927-12/1928

Disk 31: 01/01/1929-05/31/1931

Disk 32: 06/01/1931-03/30/1933

Disk 33: 04/01/1933-03/01/1936

Sub-Series 2: Olive files

Disk 1: 1916-1918

Barcode: 30112097041435

Disk 2: 1919-1920

Barcode: 30112097041427

Disk 3: 1921-05/1922

Barcode: 30112097041419

Disk 4: 06/1922-12/1922

Barcode: 30112097041401

Disk 5: 01/1923-11/1923

Barcode: 30112097041476

Disk 6: 11/1923-12/1923, 01/1924-03/1924

Barcode: 30112097041393

Disk 7: 10/1924-12/1924, 01/1925-04/1925

Barcode: 30112097041385

Disk 8: 05/1925-12/1925

Barcode: 30112097041351

Disk 9: 01/1926

Barcode: 30112097041336

Disk 10: 01/1926-09/1926

Barcode: 30112097041310

Disk 11: 10/1926-12/1926

Barcode: 30112097041328

Disk 12: 01/1927-08/1927

Barcode: 30112097041377

Disk 13: 01/1928-09/1928

Barcode: 30112097041369

Disk 14: 10/1928-12/1928

Barcode: 30112097041302

Disk 15: 09/1927-12/1927, 01/1929-04/1929

Barcode: 30112097041294

Disk 16: 05/1929-01/1930

Barcode: 30112097041286

Disk 17: 02/1930-10/1930

Barcode: 30112097041278

Disk 18: 11/1930-08/1931

Barcode: 30112097041344

Disk 19: 09/1931-06/1932

Barcode: 30112097041237

Disk 20: 07/1932-06/1933

Barcode: 30112097041252

Disk 21: 07/1933-05/1934

Barcode: 30112097041229

Disk 22: 06/1934-03/1935

Barcode: 30112097041211

Disk 23: 04/1935-03/1936

Barcode: 30112097041245

Disk 24: 1956-1963

Disk 25: 1963-1965

Disk 26: 1965-1966

Disk 27: 05/04/1927, 09/10/1927, 10/09/1927, 01/26/1929, 11/09/1929, 10/18/1934 06/05/1935

DIL - Repository Fillers

Disk 28: 1874-1897

Disk 29: 1898-1905

Disk 30: 1905-1908

Disk 31: 1908-1911

Disk 32: 1911-1914

Disk 33: 1914-1916