Brief Description: Daily Illini Photographs Subject Index includes 3 x 5 index cards for news, portrait, and feature photographs taken for publication in the Daily Illini, Illio and Technograph.  Subjects photographed include students; student life; trustees; faculty; staff; speakers and visitors; local, state, Chicago and national politicians; entertainers; campus buildings and grounds; Champaign-Urbana athletic events; campus businesses, weather and campus events.  Negatives for these photos are in RS 41/8/12, prints are in RS 41/8/11.

Record Series Number: 41/8/13

Created by: Illini Publishing Company

Volume: 3.0 cubic feet

Acquired: 5/17/1982

Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject

Biographical Note for Illini Publishing Company :

In 1911, the Board of Control of the Illini received a state charter of incorporation as the Illini Publishing Company.¹ The original charter provided for a non-profit, quasi-official organization authorized to publish the Illini.² In 1920, the charter was amended to provide for the publishing of other newspapers and magazines.³

In addition to the Daily Illini, the company has subsequently had administrative responsibility for publishing the Siren (1911-34, 1936-39), the Illio (1895- ), the Technograph (1885- ), the Enterpriser (1920-30), the Illinois Agriculturalist (1897-1950), the Illini Rural Observer (1950-54), Chaff (1957-62), Spectator (May-September 1961), Tom-Tom (1945-46) and Shaft (1947-54).

1. The Illini Publishing Company Charter Provisions and By-Laws, May 1, 1921, footnote p. 1.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

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