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968 Teresa Dalbey Composition Book and Family Biography, 1859-1864 (1.0 volume)

This collection consists of a composition book written by Teresa Dalbey, a student at the Morgan School, Emerald Point, Morgan County, Ill., in 1859. The book contains notes on grammar, mathematics, geography, and physical sciences. Dalbey was probably in her early teens at the time she kept the book. The book ...

1111 Danville Chapter of Hadassah Records, 1957-1994 (3.4 cubic feet)

The Danville Chapter of Hadassah was a social and political organization for Jewish women that operated in Danville, Illinois, from approximately 1946 to 1994. This collection consists of materials that document the chapter's members, events, and charitable giving.

1123 Danville Fire Department Composite photograph, 1907 (1.0 folder)

This collection contains a composite photograph of portraits of firefighters collected from the Fire Department of Danville, Illinois in 1907.

1112 Danville Jewish Community Chest Records, 1968-1979 and 1994-2003 (0.4 cubic feet)

Danville Jewish Community Chest is a not-for-profit corporation that originated in Danville, Illinois, in 1969. This collection includes materials that reflect the charitable organization's administrative function and contributions to the Jewish community in Danville and beyond.

812 Darby Family Papers, 1820-1920 (0.2 cubic feet; 1 oversize folder)

This collection documents four generations of the Darby family, along with its allied families of Hale, Heard, Tillotson, Mann, and Smith. Pioneers from New England, the Darbys migrated to Genesee Co., N.Y., in 1825, then westward to Peoria Co., Ill., in 1850, and to Champaign Co., Ill., in the 1880s. ...

579 M. D. Darnall Letter, 1847 (1.0 item)

This Aug. 17, 1847 letter from M. D. Darnall of Maysville, Clay Co., Ill., to Lindsay and Blakiston, publishers in Philadelphia, Pa., concerns the remittance of money owed for a subscription to the [i]Medical Examiner[/i].

580 Clarence S. Darrow Interview, Correspondence, and Papers, 1877-1937 (1.0 folder; 1 microfilm reel)

This transcript of an interview with Clarence S. Darrow was conducted by Agnes Wright Dennis of the Illinois Historical Survey in 1918. Having been a law partner of John P. Altgeld, Darrow discusses the Haymarket anarchist trial and pardon, and Altgeld's work as a Democratic governor. In addition, there is a ...

994 Clayton F. Daugherty collector. Lincoln and Champaign County, 1960-1980 (0.8 cubic feet)

This collection consists of the research notes of Clayton F. Daugherty regarding Abraham Lincoln's legal career in Champaign County.

813 Daughters of the American Revolution, Alliance Chapter 642 Records and Scrapbooks, 1923-1956 (3.0 cubic feet)

This collection consists of records of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Alliance Chapter 642. These records include genealogies of prospective members as well as yearly scrapbooks from 1923, 1937, and 1940-1956.

582 Daughters of the American Revolution, Illinois Chapter, Historic Sites of Illinois Records, 1926-1936 (0.7 cubic feet)

This collection consists of records from the Illinois Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Records include reports, correspondence, photographs, and other materials.

583 Eugene Davenport Correspondence, 1913-1914 (1.0 folder; (35 items))

Davenport's correspondence reflects his attempts to gather accounts of early Illinois superstitions and remedies.

1030 Davis Family Papers, 1815-1983 (0.4 cubic feet)

The collection documents the Davis family from Anderson Township, Clark County, Illinois, through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

772 David Davis Correspondence, 1862-1884 (1.0 folder; (44 items))

The collection consists of transcriptions of David Davis correspondence from various sources, most likely collected by Harry E. Pratt for his University of Illinois doctoral dissertation, "David Davis, 1815-1886," submitted in 1930.

584 George T. M. Davis Correspondence, 1833-1843 (1.0 folder; (9 items))

This collection consists of professional correspondence concerning the business of George T. M. Davis, who ran the law firm Davis & Krum in Alton, Illinois, with his partner John M. Krum from about 1832 to 1837.

209 Rodney O. Davis Papers (0.9 cubic feet)

585 William C. Dayton Letters and Papers, 1887-1894 (1.0 folder; (23 items))

The collection contains 21 letters and two speeches, with the majority of the correspondence discussing church matters. The authors of the two speeches are not indicated, although one commemorates Rev. Larrabee's tenth anniversary at the parish.

880 Austen Kennedy De Blois Collection, 1852-1857, 1909 (5.0 items)

Austen Kennedy De Blois was a Baptist preacher and the author of [i]John Mason Peck and One Hundred Years of Home Missions, 1817-1917[/i] (New York: American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1917). This collection consists of five items De Blois used as source material for that book, including [i]Circular Address. To ...

586 Columbus Delano Correspondence, 1869-1873 (0.6 cubic feet; (5 volumes))

This collection consists of five letterpress books dating from 1869 to 1873. The volumes contain reproductions of Columbus Delano's correspondence, which were made directly from the originals using a transfer process. As a Whig and then as a Republican, Columbus Delano represented the Ohio districts in Congress from 1845-1847 and 1865-1869. ...

587 Sieur Pierre Deliette Paper, 1721 (1.0 item)

The Sieur Pierre Deliette, who arrived in the Illinois country in 1687, wrote this narrative known as the DeGannes Memoir. An early account of the Illinois country and the Illinois Native Americans, it is published in[i] The French Foundations, 1680-1693[/i], ed. Theodore Calvin Pease and Raymond C. Werner, Collections of ...

944 Minor and Abigail Deming Correspondence, 1826-1849 (0.2 cubic feet)

The letters in this collection chronicle these events as well as the Demings' reactions to them. The correspondence has been arranged in two series. The first series, Personal and Family Correspondence, makes up the bulk of the collection. Primarily consisting of letters from Minor or Abigail to his family in ...

588 Democratic Party, 18th Congressional District Record Book, 1876-78 (0.2 cubic feet)

The records of the Democratic Central Committee of the 18th Congressional District were compiled at Cairo, Ill., and other southern Illinois towns, and concern the activities of Southern Illinois Democrats. Included are lists of committee and party members, voting statistics, fund raising notes, nominations, reports on the state of the ...

589 George Stanton Denison Letters, 1860-1865 (2.0 folders; (37 items))

George Stanton Denison served as acting collector of Internal Revenue in New Orleans during the Civil War. This collection includes photocopies of Denison's correspondence with various politicians, family, and friends from 1860-1865.

590 Henry K. Denlinger Reminiscence, 1905 (1.0 item)

Rev. Henry K. Denlinger, of the Second Presbyterian Church of Bloomington, Ill., wrote "The Second Church as I Knew It," a history of his work at the church. The work, of which the Survey has a typescript, is primarily an account of Denlinger's relations with his congregation, 1899-1905.

920 Stephen Dennis Letter, 1850 (1.0 folder)

This collection contains a letter written in 1850 by Stephen Dennis, a farmer in Greenville, Bond County, Illinois, to his grandfather in Virginia. In the letter Stephen describes the challenges the family faced over the past three crop seasons. He writes about the impact weather has had on their crops, ...

942 Joseph Desruisseaux Voyageur contracts, 1732 (1.0 folder)

This collection is comprised of voyageur contracts between Sieur Joseph Trottier Desruisseaux and fur traders for travel from Montreal to Illinois Country.

591 Dewey Collection Family and Business Papers, 1818-1923 (1.7 cubic feet)

The Dewey Collection is divided into three major sections: personal family papers, business papers, and genealogical papers. Personal papers in the Dewey collection include correspondence from 1848 to 1911, along with several letters from the 1920s. In addition, there are photographs; several obituary notices; letters of recommendation; writings of Dewey ...

1140 DeWitt County Real estate documents, 1869-1871 (1.0 folder)

This collection consists of one land deed and two real estate mortgages for adjoining parcels of land in DeWitt County, Illinois, from 1869, 1870, and 1871.

950 Joshua Dickerson Letters, 1861-1865 (0.2 cubic feet; (60 items))

This collection contains Dickerson's letter to his wife between Sept. 30, 1861, and Feb. 22, 1865. Enlisting on Aug. 4, 1861, he served as a sergeant in Co. C, 38[sup]th[/sup] Ill. Vol. Inf. Dickerson's first letters are from Pilot Knob, Mo., where the regiment wintered in 1861-62. Throughout 1862 and ...

1220 District School Number 144. Photograph Album, 1923-1924 (1.0 folder)

This collection contains photographs from the 1923-1924 school year at District School Number 144; a primary school located in Ridott Township in Stephenson County in northern Illinois. The school’s nine pupils came from the surrounding communities, including German Valley (Baalton), Ridott, and Seward in Stephenson and Winnebago counties. The photographer and compiler are not identified.

1163 Evelyn Dixon Letters, 1942-1944 (0.2 cubic feet)

This collection consists of letters written to Evelyn Dixon between 1942 and 1944. A majority of the letters are from soldiers in the Army Air Corps that she met during their training at the Chanute Air Force Base in Champaign County, Illinois.

1135 John C. Dodge Letter, 1845 (1.0 folder)

This collection contains a letter written by John C. Dodge of Chicago to his cousin, Samuel Johnson of Salem, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1845. In the letter, Dodge provides Johnson with genealogical information on their family and offers his impressions of the newly settled West.

593 Arnold Henry Dohrman Papers, 1777-1833 (0.7 cubic feet)

The Dohrman brothers were merchants who operated two offices of their mercantile house-- Jacob Dohrman in Lisbon and Arnold Henry Dohrman in New York. Their correspondence reports on arrivals of vessels, cargoes, prices of commodities, and general information concerning trade conditions in Europe, especially in Portugal and Spain during the ...

1167 William Henderson Dorris Papers, 1858-1898 (0.4 cubic feet)

The William Henderson Dorris Papers consist of family correspondence, diaries, and personal papers, much of which was created while Dorris served in the 83rd Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Dorris, whose unit was mainly stationed in Tennessee during the war, was a passionate Democrat. The collection also includes family correspondence from during and after the Civil War.

908 George H. Douglas Photograph collection, 1848-1979 (0.7 cubic feet)

This collection contains photographs and other visual materials that George H. Douglas collected for his history of Chicago and the railroad, [i]Rail City: Chicago, U.S.A[/i]. (1981). The collection is filed in two boxes. Box 1 contains images used in the book, arranged by chapter in the order in which they appear. ...

594 William R. Downs Diary and Notes, 1845-65 (1.0 folder; (1 volume, 3 items))

Downs' diary covers two periods, Sep.-June 1845-46, and Feb.-Mar. 1847. In addition to describing his daily experiences, the diary includes drafts of one annual and three quarterly reports to the American Home Missionary Society. In his diary, Downs also gives statistics on population, exports, and agricultural products of the area, ...

1184 Marion H. Drake Campaign Leaflet, 1914 (2.0 items)

This collection contains two items, a campaign leaflet from the Marion H. Drake Campaign Committee and the accompanying envelope. Drake ran in the 1914 election for alderman of Chicago’s First Ward.

814 Draper Collection, 1735-1858 (0.2 cubic feet; 69 microfilm reels)

The Draper Manuscripts, collected by Lyman C. Draper (1815-1891), constitute the largest early collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society. For an overview, see Josephine L. Harper's [i]Guide to the Draper Manuscripts[/i] (1983) [016.97802 H232g]. The Draper collection was microfilmed in 1949 (133 reels, in most sets) and again in 1980 ...

596 Dreer Collection Letters, 1765-1771 (1.0 folder; 2.0 items)

This collection includes a copy of a letter and abstract from Gen. Thomas Gage and a letter from Col. John Wilkins concerning Native Americans and military affairs in the Illinois Country. Specific references are made to the occupation of Fort Chartres by the British, the nature of different tribes after ...

597 Droit School, Sugar Loaf Township, St Clair Co. School Records and Class Photographs, 1872-1925 (0.2 cubic feet; (12 items))

Included in this collection is the "District School Record Book" for the Droit School (primary school), District No. 4, Township No. 1, Range No. 10 and 11 W., St. Clair County, for the years 1872-99. The book compiled printed forms and special ledgers, including forms used to record annual and ...

598 Edwin Dudgeon Collection of Satiric Poems, 1873 (2.0 volumes)

This collection contains two volumes of handwritten satiric poems by an anonymous author, but evidently given to Edwin Dudgeon around 1873. The larger volume, entitled "The Stale Trout, 1873," contains a story about mailing several smelly fish to various people in Chicago. Allusions in the story suggest that the author ...

943 Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand Legal document, 1721 (1.0 item)

This collection is comprised of a legal document transferring ownership of the belongings of Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand to his sister, Marie-Therese Dugué Piot de Langloiserie.

372 William E. Dunaway Papers, 1862-1865 (38.0 items)

This collection contains typescripts of William E. Dunaway's letters to his second wife, Henriette Boone, between Aug. 14, 1862, when he enlisted from Shelbyville, Illinois, and Feb. 26, 1865, when he died of chronic diarrhea at the general hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Dunnaway (as his name was first spelled in ...

600 Duncan Family Correspondence, 1849-1882 (1.0 folder; (24 items))

This collection consists of transcripts of correspondence between Elizabeth Caldwell Duncan and members of her family.

599 Joseph Duncan Record Book, 1834-1841 (1.0 volume)

This volume contains personal records of Joseph Duncan, Governor of Illinois, 1834-38. Included are a series of ten sketch maps of townships where Duncan had land holdings; 165 indexed pages where Duncan pasted newspaper clippings about his administration, with notes and some extended diary entries; pages from the Journals of ...

601 Matthias Lane Dunlap Collection, 1842-1862 (2.0 volumes)

This collection consists of two volumes by Matthias Lane Dunlap, a surveyor, horticulturist, and editor, including a book of surveys of Cook County, Illinois, and a copy of volume 7 of [i]The Illinois Farmer[/i].

602 Edward Fitzsimons Dunne Collection, 1873-1937 (3.0 cubic feet)

Edward F. Dunne was a leading progressive Democrat who served as mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois. This collection consists of newspaper accounts of Dunne's public career, mounted in eleven scrapbooks. Throughout the scrapbooks, Dunne's initials appear beside selected articles. These accounts served as the basis for William L. ...

1102 William M. Durell Letter, 1865-1865 (1.0 folder)

This collection contains a letter from William M. Durell in Vermont, Illinois, January 22, 1865. Durell’s letter includes commentary on the draft for the United States Civil War and taxes in Vermont Township.

603 George Durfee Correspondence and Papers, 1861-1901 (0.7 cubic feet)

This collection consists of the correspondence of George S. Durfee, a soldier and captain during the United States Civil War and a member of the Illinois Vicksburg Commission.

604 John Sullivan Dwight Correspondence, 1840-1850 (1.0 microfilm reel)

The Rev. John Sullivan Dwight, later famous as a music critic, was a prominent member of the Brook Farm Community, West Roxbury, Mass., 1841-1847, and one of the editors of its journal, the Harbinger. The letters in this collection were written to him by various persons during the period of ...