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This collection consists of a marriage certificate depicting a Black couple and minister during a wedding ceremony. The certificate was published by People’s Portrait and Frame Co. in Chicago, Illinois, in 1910.

This collection contains a photocopy of an extract from a minute book of the Pacific Railroad of Missouri's Board of Directors. The extract concerns a petition from members of the Board who served as lobbyists for the railroad during the Civil War. In their request for a claim adjustment,  they ...

James R. Page served in Co. A, 5th Ill. Cav. from 1861 until his death from illness in July 1863. This collection contains eleven letters Page sent to his family during the war, and also two letters to his father from friends reporting Page's illness and death. Page's letters include ...

This collection contains a microfilm of Paisley's four scrapbooks, which include clippings from a variety of local newspapers. Paisley used some of these clippings for his anonymously published book [i]The Life Story of Charlie Birger[/i] (1927). Paisley originally donated his scrapbooks to the Marion Carnegie Library in 1945, but they ...

This collection contains Cyrus E. Palmer's photograph collection of steamboats and other related subjects.

This collection contains Cyrus E. Palmer's photograph collection of steamboats and other related subjects.

This collection contains transcripts of records of the Presbyterian Church of Paris, Ill. Included are meeting records, 1824-37 and 1856-95; the marriage register, 1826-37; sessional records (somewhat abridged), 1855-71; records of the building committee, 1834; and records of the minister's salary, pew rents, etc., 1845-57.

Joseph Parker represented Ogle County in the 1869-70 Illinois Constitutional Convention. His widow, Aletta Parker, provided biographical information about him in this letter to the Illinois Centennial Commission..

This collection documents the wedding ceremony of Sylvia Badieh Paine and Rexford Clark Parmalee in May 1935. The collection consists of two sets of index cards, one typed and one handwritten, providing the introductory statement, exchange of vows and rings, and prayers proclaimed by the minister and the couple.

This collection contains three sets of records maintained by W. F. Hardy of Champaign, Ill., for the Patrons of Husbandry, Champaign County Grange, 1873-77; the Champaign County Grange, 1873-76; and the Farmers Cooperative Association of Champaign County, 1875-77.

This collection contains three sets of records maintained by W. F. Hardy of Champaign, Ill., for the Patrons of Husbandry, Champaign County Grange, 1873-77; the Champaign County Grange, 1873-76; and the Farmers Cooperative Association of Champaign County, 1875-77.

This collection contains seven photocopies and one typescript of correspondence from the Pearson-Wierman families. Most of the letters are from Illinois to Isaac W. Pearson, who stayed in Pennsylvania, and concern family matters, education and politics. Especially notable are the letters to Isaac from his sister, Charlotte, concerning her impressions ...

This collection contains a scrapbook created by Lydia F. Pease. The scrapbook is comprised of clippings from a series of articles by General John J. Pershing and his history of World War I and the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), published in the Chicago Daily News. The scrapbook contains clippings from General ...

This collection mostly contains materials related to Mrs. Pease's work in archives, manuscripts, and documentary editing, and includes correspondence, publications, notes, memoranda, and organizational reports. The collection is divided into five series: 1. Education and Career; 2. [i]The Story of Illinois[/i]; 3. Illinois State Historical Society; 4. Archival Matters (especially ...

This collection includes family, professional, and departmental correspondence; research notes; drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles, and books; copies of book reviews and other publications; and memorabilia, photographs, documents, and other papers related to Theodore Calvin Pease, a history professor at the University of Illinois. The collection highlights his military service in World War I, his research and writing, and his participation in departmental affairs at the University of Illinois.

The Pease-Anderson papers contains letters, diaries, business records, and genealogical information pertaining to members of the Pease and Anderson families, including Erastus H. Pease, Thomas Huntington Pease, Amy Pease Stuart, Albert A. Pease, Mahala Anderson, Albert Anderson, and Carrie Anderson Pease.

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence of the Lyman and Pease families and transcriptions of those letters. In addition to correspondence between Henry and Lovancia during their courtship, there is a considerable amount of correspondence which they received from both sides of the family, including letters from Henry's ...

This collection consists of Peck's correspondence with Warren Leverett and Washington Leverett, brothers and professors at Shurtleff College. Their correspondence regards the administration and finances of Shurtleff College; day-to-day church business; Baptist conventions; and the administration of the Illinois Literary and Historical Society (one of the precursors of the Illinois ...

This collection consists of material related to the People of Illinois v. William Armstrong, an 1858 trial in which Abraham Lincoln successfully represented the defendant.

This collection consists of a school treasurer's cash book from Peoria County, Illinois.

This volume contains the financial records of the Peoria County, Ill., School District No. 3, including entries by district treasurers and clerks for 1848-51, 1860-68, and 1869-75. The records also include summaries of receipts for 1876-78, and the district director's statement of receipts and expenditures for 1879-84. In addition, the volume ...

This collection contains 8 items regarding real estate development in Peoria, Illinois circa the 1890s.

This collection contains transcripts of family correspondence and excerpts of a diary from William A. Pepper, who served in the Illinois Infantry during the Civil War.

This collection contains the papers of the Perkins and other related families. Materials include correspondence, personal and professional papers, photographs, artwork, publications, and other papers. The collection documents the experiences of seven related families that eventually settled in Kane County, Illinois, in the mid-nineteenth century. The collection is organized into ten ...

Attached to this summary of the collection are lists of Perkins' commissions (alphabetically arranged by the clients' names) and of the location of those commissions. The material mainly falls into three categories: The s[i]ketches[/i] are free-hand illustrations done in the early stages of a commission. Generally they lack dates, numbers, ...

Between 1909 and 1917, Peters compiled two scrapbooks of clippings about Abraham Lincoln. Many clippings relate to Lincoln monuments of that period. Peters's interest in this subject is indicated by a photocopy of a letter with the second scrapbook from James B. Merwin on June 16, 1913, regarding the Congressional ...

This collection contains two letters between twentieth-century Abraham Lincoln scholars James A. Peterson and Louis Austin Warren regarding Peterson’s work “In re Lucey Hanks.”

This collection contains two pieces of correspondence from John Petrie in Griggsville, Illinois, to Eli English in Hartland, Vermont. The letters were written shortly after Petrie moved from Hartland to Griggsville in 1838.

Phebe Jane Morrison Hutchison was born in Cherry Fork, Ohio, but moved to Oak Grove, McLean County, Ill., in 1856. In this memoir, written in 1930, she recalls her early life, household and farming experiences, school and church events, and family and community gatherings. Her childhood reactions to the Civil ...

This collection contains the journals and cash books of J.W. Phillips, who ran a nursery business in central Illinois. Phillips, a "tree agent" from Washington, Illinois, and later Peoria, Illinois, sold fruit trees and other products from his nursery. He recorded personal and financial information in the journals and cash books, ...

This collection contains the papers of John Van Cleve Phillips. Materials include correspondence, personal papers, geological reports, atlases, surveys, maps, newspaper clippings, and publications.

This collection contains photocopies of articles and documents, newspapers, photographs, and research notes compiled by Richard Phillips about the history of Fort Crevecoeur and the debate over its exact location near Peoria, Illinois.

This volume was used by an unknown physician in Sadorus, Ill., to record the names of his patients, their maladies, their treatment, and their bills (if they paid). Four pages of 'Obstetrics' show how for a few years this unnamed doctor delivered two or three babies each month, recording the ...

This collection contains the administrative records for Piatt County School District from 1858 to 1972. Materials include records for Pemble Elementary School, Dublin Elementary School, and the Piatt County School District Superintendent and Board of Trustees. The collection is organized in three series: Piatt County Administration, Pemble Elementary School, and Dublin ...

This collection consists of items relating to Piatt County, Illinois, including newspaper clippings, historical writings on the history of Piatt county, photo album, posters, and other items.

These three record books concern the farm business of the Piatt family, in and around Monticello, Piatt County, Ill. The first volume, 1879-1906, belonged to C. W. Piatt, and contains entries for payments to hired workers, bills, and the purchase of household goods.  The first volume also contains a letter, ...

This collection contains financial receipts, legal papers, and correspondence related to Piatt and his son, William H. Piatt. Some of the materials in this collection were damaged by fire prior to donation, but the damage only impairs the legibility of the materials in Folder 15.

This collection contains three diaries of the Pierson family of Lima, Ohio. Charles Pierson compiled most of the entries, but Samuel and A. D. Pierson also contributed.  The diaries describe farming procedures, weather reports, family matters, and reactions to the Civil War, especially the draft. There are also references to ...

This collection contains an 1846 letter from Robert Pike Jr. of Utopia, a neighborhood in Queens, New York, to W.E. Woodward of Waltham, Massachusetts. The letter discusses printing a book by Dickinson.

This collection contains photocopies of the papers of Bert E. and Frank E. Pinkerton, brothers who were longtime Illinois printers and active members of the Republican party. The collection consists largely of personal letters exchanged by the brothers with their nephew, Ralph Kirby, but also includes newspaper clippings, legal documents, ...

This collection includes a poll book leaf for the election of presidential electors in Meredosia, Morgan County, Illinois for the 1840 election. Abraham Lincoln, name misspelled as “Abram Lincoln,” is included as a candidate.

This collection consists of an album created by Faytima A. Pond as a class report for a summer course for educators offered by the Illinois State Normal University in 1926.

This collection consists of a lecture given by Fern Nance Pond at Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois, on February 25, 1944. The lecture is titled "New Salem Restored."

This collection contains one volume of land survey records from Pope County, Illinois, and includes three hundred and seventy pages of hand-drawn entries covering almost every township from the 1830s to the 1890s.

In this document, dated August 23, 1836, James Hughes, clerk of the Commissioners Court of Randolph County, in Kaskaskia, Illinois, informs D. McNeil, his counterpart in Warren County, that Nathaniel Pope has entered for taxation the N.W. Quarter of Sec. 22, Township 9 N., Range 5 West, in Warren County.

From January to June 1862, this ledger was used by the Post Hospital of Ironton, Mo., to inventory supplies, to document the soldiers who worked there, and to record financial information. The book was later used in 1866 by a doctor in Le Roy, Ill. The doctor reported on his ...

This collection includes a letter from Justus Post to Alex L. Jackson, Esquire. The letter discusses Post’s thoughts on a charter for the creation of a canal.

Col. Philip Sidney Post commanded the 59th Ill. Vol. Inf. from 1862 until he was promoted to brigadier general in Dec. 1864. This collection includes seven maps prepared for Post during the Civil War, including sketches and reconnaissance of land in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The collection also contains ...

This collection contains the papers of Harry E. Pratt including publications, research notes, typescripts, and other materials.

This collection contains materials that document the later work of David Prickett, an Illinois public servant during the mid-19th century. The collection primarily consists of letters and legal documents.

This collection contains transcripts of Prickett's Mexican War correspondence, 1846-47, including ten letters to his fiancee, Elisabeth Barnsback of Edwardsville, Ill., and one to her father, J. L. Barnsback. The letters describe army life, the trip to New Orleans and Galveston, the countryside of southern Texas and northern Mexico, and ...

This collection contains seven publicity stills from [i]Prince of Players[/i], given to Lincoln collector Earl C. Kubicek by the Balaban & Katz Corporation following its run in Chicago. The collection also includes a cover letter to Kubicek from Abe J. Platt of Balaban & Katz, newspaper advertisements from the [i]Chicago ...

This collection consists of a typescript letter from Progressive Mine Workers of America leaders to Thomas Mooney and the Mooney Molders Defense Committee inviting Mooney to speak at a Labor Day celebration.

The 35 photographs in this collection show the construction of the basement area of the Prudential Building in Chicago. The photographs were taken by the Photograph Office of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. The place from which each photograph was taken is noted on the back of the picture. Many ...

This collection consists of letters sent to Robert Todd Lincoln in his capacity as president of the Pullman Company.