Flanegan Family Papers, 1832-1893 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

Scope and Contents:

This collection includes a tax receipt for property in Delaware County, Ohio, a bookmark, and four teacher's certificates from counties in Ohio and Central Illinois. The teacher's certificates allowed their recipient, Mary E. Flanagan, to teach subjects like "reading writing, arithmetic, orthography, English grammar, and geography" to students in the first and second grades.

Acquisition Source: This collection was transferred from the Rare Book and Special Collections Library to the Illinois Historical Survey in 1975.