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Berink Satterlee, of Salisbury, Ill., used this volume to record various accounts of foodstuffs. The Library acquired the volume in 1969.

This collection consists of correspondence from Jerome B. Satterlee, who served in the New York Volunteer Infantry, to his family during the Civil War. Jerome B. Satterlee (1838-1925) enlisted as a private in Company B of the 44th Regiment of the New York Volunteer Infantry (known as the"Ellsworth Avengers") on August ...

This collection consists of a transcription of a memorandum listing names and information about early missionaries in the St. Louis area compiled by the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of St. Louis in 1850. In 1850, Rev. Edmund Saulnier, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, evidently compiled this memorandum of the ...

Beginning on June 20, 1796, Martha Sayer used this 40-page exercise book to practice mathematics. The volume contains questions dealing with weights and measures of wine, cloth and land, exercises about time and money, and multiplication and division problems. In the Library's early accessioning system, the volume was numbered "Ms ...

This collection contains a typescript of Yetta Scheftel's paper, "The Settlement of the Military Tract in the State of Illinois: A Study of the Westward Movement." She prepared this eight-chapter manuscript under Clarence W. Alvord for use in [i]The Centennial History of Illinois[/i], and was compensated for the work by ...

This collection contains four pages of a typescript titled "Interview with George Schilling." Schilling was the secretary of the State Board of Labor Statistics under Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld. The interview pages are annotated for clarity in what may be Schilling's hand. Also included with the typescript is a ...

Otto Leopold Schmidt was a physician and leader in the Illinois history community. This collection contains both typed and handwritten transcripts of records in the French America Collection (formerly the Otto Schmidt Collection) of the Chicago History Museum. A portion of these typescripts was used in the preparation of Theodore ...

Frank O. Schneider (1887-1943), of Kankakee, Illinois, was a civic-minded businessman and nationally respected figure in the Savings and Loan community. Schneider dedicated his professional life to the Kankakee Federal Savings and Loan Association (originally called the Kankakee Building and Loan Association), a company that enabled thousands of Kankakee residents ...

This collection contains early Schuyler County, Ill. records. There are ten town plat maps, showing the towns of Rushville (1831), Pennsville (1833), Doddsville and Milton (1836), Middletown, Centreville, Newark, LaGrange (1837), and Littletown (1856). Pennsville was never settled, while LaGrange (for which there are two plat maps) and Milton failed. Centreville ...

Matthew Scott was a businessman and landowner in eastern Illinois. This collection contains microfilm copies of records relating to the development of a 55,000 acre frontier estate in several different counties in East Central Illinois. The estate was established by Scott, acting in conjunction with various members of his family, ...

Roy V. Scott was born in Wrights, Greene County, Ill., in 1927. From 1960 to 1968, he served on the faculty of Mississippi State University, retiring as the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of History. This collection contains Scott's research notes used in preparing "Milton George and the Farmers' Alliance" (M.A., ...

In 1833, William Arminger Scripps, publisher of the [i]Literary Gazette[/i] (London), made a journey to Rushville, Ill., to visit his son, James Mogg Scripps. This collection contains extracts from his diary and letters from this trip. Scripps traveled from Buffalo to Detroit, and across Michigan and Illinois to Rushville. He ...

William Scully (1821-1906) migrated from County Tipperary to Illinois in 1850, and became one of the largest landowners in the American Midwest. He eventually owned a total of 211,000 acres in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, including 30,000 acres in Logan County, Ill. alone. This collection contains nine letters in 1919 ...

This collection contains the travelogues and correspondence of Hal Seaberg, a Swedish immigrant and steelworker who spent at least four summers visiting sites related to Abraham Lincoln. Carl Hjalmar Seaberg, known as Hal, moved to the United States from Sweden around 1923 and worked in a steel plant in Midland, Pennsylvania. ...

Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman (1851-1932), originally of Newburgh, N.Y., was a military surgeon in the Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, Russo-Japanese War (on the Japanese side), Balkan Wars, and World War I (for Belgium, France, and finally, for the U.S.). From the 1880s through the 1910s, he traveled to ...

This collection contains the baseball scrapbook and photographs of Arthur E. Sewell. Born in 1885, Arthur E. Sewell, a native of Huntley, Illinois, played catcher for several minor league baseball teams between 1909 and 1915. He began his minor league career in 1909 with the Galena Speed Boys (Galena, Illinois). The ...

Writing to his parents from Baltimore, Md. on Feb. 19, 1862, and from Opelousas, La. on Oct. 27, 1863, Adam Shaffstall described preparations for the Peninsula Campaign and his service in Louisiana. Jack Nortrup of Angola, Ind., gave these photocopied letters to the Library.

The Shakers (the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing) date from the late eighteenth century. This collection contains microfilm copies of papers from Shaker colonies in Kentucky (Pleasant Hill and South Union), New York (New Lebanon), New Hampshire (Canterbury), and Ohio (Union Village). The papers include account books, diaries, ...

Noah Shattuck was an officer in the War of 1812, a justice of the peace in Groton, Mass., and a state legislator in 1824 and 1825. In 1833, he was a delegate to the Massachusetts Anti-Masonic convention which nominated John Quincy Adams for governor. (Although Adams lost, he continued his ...

This collection contains blueprints of Howard Van Doren Shaw's plans for a "Country House" for P. A. Waller of Kewanee, Ill. The house was designed for the east end of Roosevelt Road, but was never built, evidently because of World War I. Harold E. Waller donated the blueprints to Ricker ...

This collection consists of personal papers belonging to the Sheets family. It is primarily composed of correspondence to and from family members, dating from 1845 to 1910. Jacob Sheets (1828-1898) and his family moved from Shenandoah County, Virginia, to Vermillion (now Vermilion), Edgar County, Illinois, during the 1850s. Jacob and his ...

The Sheffer Family Papers consist of family correspondence, Civil War military service documents, financial records, family records, and various other materials including photographs and news clippings. The correspondence includes letters to various members of the Sheffer family sent from family and friends who settled across the Midwest and West. George K. ...

This collection contains handwritten copies and typed transcripts of a portion of Sir William Petty, second Earl of Shelburne, first Marquis of Lansdowne's papers. Materials include correspondence, proposals, memoranda, and other papers. The collection is organized into two series: European and Mediterranean Politics, and Colonial Affairs and the 1783 Treaty of ...

This collection consists of a letter from Eber Sheldon, a soldier in the Union Army, to his family in Illinois, describing his regiment's journey from St. Louis to St. Joseph, Missouri. Originally from Kaneville, Illinois, Eber Sheldon was a private in Company A of the 52nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry during ...

This collection contains materials regarding the on-stage and film productions of Robert E. Sherwood’s [i]Abe Lincoln in Illinois[/i] (1940), which starred Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. (Emmet) Sherwood was born in New Rochelle, New York on April 4, 1896. He attended Harvard University and later served as a volunteer ...

This collection contains letters of Aug. 29 and Nov. 23, 1935, from W. A. Shields, secretary of the La Salle, Ill., Chamber of Commerce, to Josef F. Wright, Station WILL, Urbana, providing information about business and manufacturing establishments, parks, and schools in La Salle. Shields notes in particular F. W. ...

A native Chicagoan, Carl Marx Shier (1918-2007) was involved in local, national and international trade union and socialist movements. Named for Karl Marx, Shier grew up in an active socialist family. As a teenager, Shier worked for the prominent American socialist Norman Thomas. In 1942, he became an auto worker ...

This collection relates to vessels captured by Great Britain, 1779-80. It contains a photostat (on 11 sheets), and a transcript of the photostat, of papers for the ship [i]St. Luis[/i], otherwise [i]Alexander[/i], from the New Orleans registry, with Bartholomew Toutant Beauregard listed as master. These papers include a bill of ...

Solomon W. Shively served in Co. E, 7th N.J. Vol. Inf. from Aug. 24, 1861, to Oct. 7, 1864. As a constituent part of the Army of the Potomac, his regiment was engaged in the major battles of the Eastern Theater, 1862-64. Shively's diary, which includes entries from Apr. 8 to ...

This collection consists of a bibliography on Lincoln memorials, such as statues, busts, monuments, parks, and buildings, prepared by Esther Marian Shubert in 1938. Esther Marian Shubert prepared her bibliography, titled "Lincoln Trails and Shrines," for a Library Science course in which she was enrolled in 1938. Shubert's paper was prepared ...

This collection consists of items belonging to Thomas Sikes, including a letter describing the reaction of Portsmouth, Ohio, residents to the news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and a military discharge certificate. Born in Portsmouth, Ohio, a city on the state's southern border with Kentucky, Thomas Sikes (1836-1908) served as a private ...

Amedee H. Simonin was the New York agent for the European-American Colonization Society in Texas. During the mid-1850s, Victor Considerant, leader of the Society, and others immigrated from Paris, France, and established the Reunion colony outside Dallas, Texas. This collection contains microfilm copies of Society financial records; a map of ...

Amedee H. Simonin was the New York agent for the European-American Colonization Society in Texas. During the mid-1850s, Victor Considerant, leader of the Society, and others immigrated from Paris, France, and established the Reunion colony outside Dallas, Texas. This collection contains microfilm copies of Society financial records; a map of ...

Frances Grimes Sitherwood (b. 1859) of Bloomington, Ill., maintained this scrapbook of correspondence, playbills, concert and commencement programs, and newspaper clippings from 1887 to 1922. The playbills and programs, some of which are loose, are from various events and performances throughout Illinois, including venues in Bloomington, Chicago, Normal, and Rockford. ...

Richard C. Skagenberg served as the official photographer of the many events which marked the centennial of Bement, Ill. in 1955. This collection contains hundreds of Skagenberg's carefully identified photographs of that landmark year. It also contains his scrapbook of clippings, programs, and ephemera which document the centennial, and a ...

This collection contains assorted brochures, clippings, and other ephemera commemorating and documenting the history of trains and railroads in the United States, particularly in Illinois. Much of the ephemera comes from museums, clubs, or societies focused on celebrating and preserving the history of the railroads in Illinois, Wisconsin, or Pennsylvania, ...

This collection consists of collectable postal envelopes and postage stamps commemorating the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Robert M. Skirvin, a professor emeritus of crop sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, compiled this collection. This collection contains several envelopes and stamps from 1966 that are featured on first day covers, ...

George W. and Mary E. Smith were among the earliest settlers (and first African American settlers) of Broadlands, Ill. This collection consists of three posters, designed in conjunction with the Krannert Art Museum exhibit [i]Through the Years: African American History Comes Home[/i]. Two of the posters feature copies of photographs, ...

This collection contains a speech written by Hazel B. Smith (1893-1973) of the Springfield Colored Women's Club given to the Central District of the Illinois State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and the Eureka Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. The Springfield Colored Women's Club was founded in 1899 ...

In 1969, Harrison Cornell, a reporter for WILL, the University of Illinois radio station, interviewed John M. Smith, an 84 year old black farmer from Broadlands, Ill. Smith described prejudice against blacks in Champaign and Danville, voting rights, farming techniques, and showing horses, among other reminiscences of his life in ...

This collection contains photocopies of documents relating to the trials of the murderers of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the Mormon leaders who were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill., in 1844. These items include a published transcript of the trial of Joseph Smith's murderers; two excerpts taken from the ...

This collection contains a resolution of the citizens of Upper Alton, Illinois, proposed by Robert Smith on January 30, 1836, concerning the location of the Cumberland Road, and a letter of August 18, 1842, from Smith to Alexander M. K. Dubois, clerk of the circuit court of Macoupin County, regarding ...

Thomas H. Smith and his brother operated a grocery store in Perrysville, Vermillion County, Ind. Because of the store's proximity to the Illinois-Indiana border, the Smith brothers served customers from both states. The Smiths used this ledger from 1851 to 1862 to record the business transactions at the grocery store. ...

The Society for the Urban Residential Environment (SURE) was founded in 1975 "to preserve and improve the essential character of the intact urban and suburban residential areas" of Champaign, Urbana, and Champaign County, Ill. Maintaining that local governments paid more attention to business interests and land developers than to area ...

The Sodus Bay Phalanx, a communitarian experiment based upon Fourierist principles, was organized in Rochester, N.Y., and occupied a domain on nearby Sodus Bay. This collection contains microfilm copies of records of this phalanx, including the constitution, by-laws, and signatures of the members; a volume of minutes from Feb. 3 ...

This collection contains microfilm copies of various South Carolina colonial records, including[i] [/i]Commons House Journals, 1706-61; Council and Upper House Journals, 1721-74; and proceedings and minutes of the Council, 1734-69. The collection also contains the letterbook of Charles Garth, Provincial Agent of South Carolina, 1766-75, and the South Carolina "Indian ...

The South Eastern Railway, founded in the 1840s, served a populous suburban district south of London. In 1895, George Augustus Nokes (pseud. G. A. Sekon), who later became editor of [i]The Railway Magazine[/i], wrote the [i]History of the South-Eastern Railway. [/i]This 40-page booklet discusses the railway's route, fares, accidents, and, ...

The Southern Club of Chicago was formed in 1908 as "an organization of southerners, resident and non-resident, in the city of Chicago and its environs." This collection contains two programs and the seating chart from the organization's annual banquet held January 18, 1913, at the Hotel La Salle. The program ...

This collection consists of transcripts of correspondence and other documents found in various Spanish and Latin American Archives and Depositories. The bulk of the collection was created under the leadership of Charles H. Cunningham in the early twentieth century for the Illinois Historical Survey and other libraries. The transcripts are ...

This collection contains facsimiles of the dispatches of the Spanish governors of Louisiana to the captains-general at Havana beginning from 1766 and continuing until the end of 1791. As a result of the efforts of Roscoe R. Hill and the Department of Historical Research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington D.C., ...

This collection contains transcripts of letters from Joseph Galloway and Thomas Wharton to Benjamin Franklin, and from Gen. Thomas Gage to the Earl of Hillsborough. The letters discuss George Croghan's departure for the Illinois country, the plans of the Ohio Company, and Gage's ideas on western settlement. These transcripts were copied ...

This collection consists of the cemetery survey records of Godfrey Sperling. Materials include information about graves located in Champaign County of soldiers and veterans who served during conflicts from the American Revolutionary War to World War I. During the 1930s, County Surveyor Godfrey Sperling completed a survey of Champaign County ...

The Spitler, Noble & Co. of Mattoon, Ill. compiled this ledger for the Sanborn Co. The ledger illustrates the fire insurance system of the Sanborn Co. It contains hand-drawn maps of miscellaneous properties in 27 Illinois towns as well as notes on policy holders' insurance and mortgage rates. Among the ...

The Spitler, Noble & Co. of Mattoon, Ill. compiled this ledger for the Sanborn Co. The ledger illustrates the fire insurance system of the Sanborn Co. It contains hand-drawn maps of miscellaneous properties in 27 Illinois towns as well as notes on policy holders' insurance and mortgage rates. Among the ...

Between 1971 and 1975, Paul E. Sprague served as director of the Illinois Historic Structures Survey. Sprague later held appointments in the faculty of the University of Chicago and in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Sprague was also an active member in numerous historical ...

An unknown reader clipped articles from the [i]Springfield (Mass.) Republican[/i] and, possibly, from a few other papers, from Jan. 12, 1854, to June 30, 1856, but mainly in 1856. Most of the clippings relate to emigration to Kansas and the ensuing civil war there. A scattering of other topics are ...

This collection includes drafts of miscellaneous resolutions and letters written in St. Clair County, Ill. The documents are political in nature, and their dates have been approximated. 1. Draft of resolutions for the delegates to the Democratic convention in Springfield, including those on nominations for governor and the benefits of what ...

This collection contains microfilm copies of official records of the French, British, and early American periods in Illinois found in the archives of St. Clair County. These copies are mainly from the Perrin Collection, and include the Registre des Insinuations des Donations aux Siege de Illinois, 1737-69, the oldest court ...

This report of "Land Titles in Cahokia, 1783-1938" is a 25-page typescript, accompanied by a handdrawn map, prepared by the Cahokia Memorial Society under the auspices of the St. Clair County Board of Supervisors and the Illinois W.P.A.

This microfilm collection consists of a book of French and English-language records from St. Francis Xavier Church, in Vincennes, Ind. The records were filmed by the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library. The collection also includes a typescript of the minutes of the church, dating from 1819. ...

Elijah Stannard used this 182-page ledger and day book to record business transactions in his blacksmith and general merchandise shop in Tennessee. He dealt mainly in hardware, dry goods, and notions. He also sold groceries and tobacco. In addition, he apparently bought cotton and resold it, acting as a middle ...

In 1958, Wilbur F. Starkey photographed scenes in Peru, Ill., and vicinity, and mounted 61 pictures in "A Pictorial History of Peru, Illinois, and part of the Illinois-Mich. Canal." He combined these black and white photographs with a 91-page typewritten history of Peru largely taken from [i]Peru Centennial, 1835-1935[/i] (1935).

This record book was used by the crew of the steamboat [i]Leander[/i] to record passengers, fares, crew names and wages, freight, and other accounts for various trips between St. Louis, Cincinnati, and New Orleans in 1843 and 1844. The journal was also used as an account book of a St. ...

This collection contains photostats of letters to and from Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, mainly concerning the Civil War and the events leading up to it. There are also two articles, entitled "Civil War" and "Hampton Roads Conference." The copies were made from originals in the ...

Carl Stephens, University Historian, and Charles W. Paape, Research Assistant in History of the University of Illinois, drafted this manuscript, the advisory committee for which included Theodore C. Pease, Fred H. Turner, and Harrison E. Cunningham. The manuscript was submitted to the University Press by the committee but was never ...

The Stephenson-Richardson collection contains correspondence and financial, legal, and real estate papers of two families living in Perry County, Ind., during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest papers relate to John Stephenson, a native Virginian, Indiana pioneer, and justice of the peace. The collection also contains papers related ...

This collection contains a legal notice requesting any justice of the peace of the State of Illinois to question an individual named McCrilli concerning a case pending in Brandenburg, Kentucky, dated January 18, 1843. The request was placed by William Fairleigh of the Meade County and Circuit Courts. William Fairleigh (1797-1865) ...

This collection consists of a photocopy of a letter from John J. Stevens to Judge Lawrence B. Stringer, recalling the 1853 dedication of the town of Lincoln, Illinois. John J. Stevens (born 1840) was from St. Louis, Missouri and visited Middletown, Logan County, Illinois, in 1847. Lawrence B. Stringer (1866-1942) was ...

This collection contains the professional research papers, articles, letters, and notes of Wayne E. Stevens, a University of Illinois alumnus and history scholar. Wayne Edson Stevens (1892-1959) was born in Avon, Illinois and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Knox College in 1913 before receiving his Master of Arts (1914) ...

This collection consists of a typed script used by Adlai E. Stevenson for his narration of [i]Lincoln Portrait[/i], an orchestral piece written by Aaron Copland. Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-1965) was an Illinois lawyer and politician who served in various state and federal government positions, including governor of Illinois from 1949-1953. ...

Charles Leslie Stewart compiled this 23-page typed study of "Illinois County Quinquennial Population Statistics, 1820-1865," probably for use in the preparation at the University of Illinois of [i]The Centennial History of Illinois. [/i]He discussed his research in letters to Solon J. Buck on July 4, 1913, and Jan. 31, 1914. ...

This collection primarily consists of correspondence from Harvey "Will" Stewart to his future wife, Alta Elliott, while Stewart was enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War. A native of Olney, Illinois, Harvey William "Will" Stewart enlisted as a bugler in Company E of the 6th Illinois Cavalry on October ...

This collection contains a letter from Private Charles W. Stickney to his mother written shortly after the end of the Civil War. Charles W. Stickney was a private in the first regiment of the Illinois Light Artillery, also known as Taylor's Chicago Battery, during the Civil War. He served from 1862 ...

This collection consists of the personal material of Smith Stimmel, including a copy of an address given at the unveiling of a bust of Abraham Lincoln in Christiana (now Oslo), Norway, in 1914, sent to Albert H. Griffith, a Lincoln collector, in 1926. From 1863 to 1865, Smith Stimmel (1842-1935) was ...

Porter C. Ransom and Henry W. Bullock were leading citizens of El Paso, Woodford County, Ill. On May 2, 1881, Ransom shot and killed Bullock. Their backgrounds differed, Ransom being "a New Yorker and loyal to the Union, while Bullock was a Kentuckian of the 'Copperhead' stripe" ([i]Chicago Daily Tribune[/i], ...

Writing on Aug. 10, 1849, to A. K. Thompson of New York, David Stoutenbugh regrets that a tangled business affair with Foles (sp.?) took him to Waukegan, Ill., during a cholera outbreak, and mentions his plan to travel next to Norwalk, Ohio.

This collection contains research notes and photocopies of articles, clippings, and maps relating to early Illinois stagecoach lines from about 1819 to 1869. Most of the copies were made by Paul H. Stringham from material in the Peoria Historical Society Collection on deposit in the Special Collections Center, Bradley University ...

This collection contains a letter from a member of the Stumph family in Ottawa, Illinois, to Hannah Elizabeth Bowell of Jefferson, Pennsylvania. The letter is dated March 17, 1857, and describes a wolf hunt that took place a few weeks earlier. This letter was written by a member of the ...

This collection documents multiple generations of the Sudlow and Haviland families, originally of Dutchess County, New York. The collection contains biographical information; personal, business, and Civil War correspondence; financial, insurance, legal, and real estate papers; family photographs; family trees and scrapbooks; and genealogy card files. The earliest Sudlow materials relate to ...

This collection contains blueprints of Louis Sullivan's plans for the Harold C. Bradley House, on University Heights (at the corner of Prospect and Van Hise) in Madison, Wisc.  The blueprints, dated July 8, 1909, were transferred from Ricker Library to the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections in 2007.

This collection contains timetables, brochures, and other publications documenting train service in the United States, particularly through the Midwest during the 1980s and early 1990s. The bulk of the collection consists of national and regional Amtrak Train Timetables dating from 1982 to 1991. Also included are issues of [i]Amtrak's ...

This collection contains two certificates presented to Ann Elizabeth (McKinney) Sutton. The first awards Ann McKinney to teach second grade and was issued by Superintendent of Schools J. W. Van Cleve in Edwardsville, Illinois on April 8, 1869. The second certificate is Ann and George Riley Sutton's marriage certificate dated ...

In this letter of January 21, 1846, C. T. [Charles Towar] Sweringen of Montezuma, Pike County, Ill., writes to his brother, J. T. [James Towar] Sweringen of St. Louis, and describes agricultural prices and his attempts at selling and renting land.

This collection contains correspondence and records from the Sylvester family of Homer, Ill., and Attica, Ind. A large portion of the collection contains letters written by George W. Sylvester, Co. I (later Co. B), 51st Ill. Vol. Inf., to his wife, Amanda, and children, Alice and William H., between Sept. ...