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The Activism Ephemera collection consists of paper ephemera, books, and music records related to activist movements in the United States. Included are items related to Angela Davis, the Diggers, the Rainbow People's Party (formerly known as the White Panthers), the Yippies, Situationist International, and many other activists and activist groups.

A collection of clippings, photographs, and autographs of actors and actresses from the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Collection of materials used by WNET/Thirteen's documentary film producer and director Perry Miller Adato (1920 - 2018) in the creation of films including [i]Picasso: A Painter's Diary [/i](1980), [i]Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences [/i](1982), [i]Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me [/i](1970), [i]Georgia O'Keeffe [/i](1977), [i]An Eames Celebration - Several Worlds of Charles and Ray Eames [/i](1973), [i]Dylan Thomas - The World I Breathe [/i](1968), [i]Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts [/i](1986), [i]Mary Cassatt - Impressionist From Philadelphia[/i] (1978), [i]Frankenthaler - Toward a New Climate [/i](1978). Also contains a significant portion of manuscripts dedicated to the history of cinema in the United States including flyers and film programs from the underground and independent filmmaking movements of the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, brochures for post-production vendors, and resumes of working artists.

Papers of Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist, geologist, naturalist and educator, including 30 letters written by Agassiz, two written by James Barnard, one written by Alexander Agassiz, and three Agassiz memorial announcements dealing with his geological and zoological activities, especially the correct methods to be used in studying natural history with ...

The Shana Alexander Papers consist of eighty-two linear feet of original manuscripts, typescript, typed carbon, printed, photographic and replicated materials. The manuscript portions include article manuscripts, reporter's notebooks, correspondence, scrapbooks, lectures, speeches, documents, photographs and other research materials dating from 1950 through the 1990's during the most active years of ...

Perhaps the only Alexander Smith collection in the world, materials include all first editions, reprints, reissues in fine editions, and various uncollected items of the Scottish poet, essayist, novelist, critic; and once regarded as one of the most eminent writers of the nineteenth century. Collection given in 1979 by Richard ...

This collection consists of 15 pocket diaries kept by Amy Catherine Robbins (later Catherine or "Jane" Wells) between 1898 and 1927. See the item-level listing for a full list of dates covered.

Collection of French socialist novelists.

Arnold Keoseian joined the International Brigades in 1938 as a private in the Lincoln - Washington Battalion, taking part in the Ebro campaign a month after he arrived in Spain. He left Spain after the International Brigades were retired, returning to the United States where he remained active in antifascist ...

The Yamagiwa Collection consists of material dating from the 14th to the 20th centuries. The great majority of items are Japanese books printed between the 17th and 19th centuries, but there is also a small number of Chinese books, as well as three Burmese Kammavaca (Buddhist prayer books); besides books, ...

This collection consists of nineteen letters that Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, wrote to John Wilson Croker between March 12, 1812, and March 28, 1842, as well as seven letters that Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, wrote to primarily unidentified recipients between December 16, 1822, and July 17, ...

Correspondence to English poet Alfred Austin by many of the great literary figures of his day. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572617]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572617[/url]

This collection consists of the papers of English novelist and essayist Herbert George Wells. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, drawings, manuscripts and proofs, speeches, and other materials.

This collection contains correspondence and clippings brought together by Reverend Nathan Martin Baker (1837-1922) regarding the 1893 lynching of Samuel J. Bush, a Black farmhand, in Decatur, IL. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.

This collection contains correspondence and clippings brought together by Reverend Nathan Martin Baker (1837-1922) regarding the 1893 lynching of Samuel J. Bush, a Black farmhand, in Decatur, IL. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.

The library collection consists of more than 5,800 volumes of 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century texts of classical authors, commentaries, Bibles and prayer books, rhetorics, histories, and English literature, particularly of the Elizabethan period. The catalog groups books by subject, listing author, short title, and place and year of publication; shelfmarks ...

Ewing C. Baskette Collection on Freedom of Expression purchased in 1959. Baskette, a lawyer and librarian, owned the largest private collection on civil liberties and freedom of expression in the United States. Within the broad limits of freedom of expression, such topics as freedom of the press, censorship, constitutional rights, ...

Papers of Ewing C. Baskette, lawyer, librarian and bibliographer. Includes modern speeches, letters and manuscripts on cases dealing with anarchism, the Centralia case, communal living, syndicalism, socialism, the International Workers of the World, freedom of expression and censorship. Baskette's complementary book and pamphlet collection on censorship and intellectual freedom (cataloged ...

Collection consists primarily of pen drawings executed by Behrensmeyer over the course of his career; a majority of the drawings depict various birds; also includes his "Lessons in Practical Penmanship" (Quincy, Ill.: D.L. Musselman, 1917) and the following periodicals: "The Normal: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Dissemination of Knowledge ...

The Ben Hecht collection includes all of the author's first editions (several signed or inscribed), many British and first paperback editions, as well as a selection of reprints. Special attention is paid to variants. Also included are mimeographed copies of five of his screenplays, and Hecht's agent's typescript of the ...

The Ben Hecht collection includes all of the author's first editions (several signed or inscribed), many British and first paperback editions, as well as a selection of reprints. Special attention is paid to variants. Also included are mimeographed copies of five of his screenplays, and Hecht's agent's typescript of the ...

Letters from Bentley to Aspinwall regarding Bentley's acquisition of the publishing rights for William H. Prescott's History of the conquest of Mexico. Bentley eventually acquired the rights and the work was published in 3 vols. in October 1843. The letters are all dated from New Burlington Street. Holographs, signed. Title supplied by ...

Collection of Theatre Programmes from the United Kingdoms and Canada. Assembled and donated to the Library by Alvan Bergman.

Papers of Isabel Bevier (1860-1942), professor of household science (1900-21), including correspondence, publications by Miss Bevier (1898-1940) and the Household Science Department (1900, 1905, 1908-21, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1938, 1945-47), manuscripts (1896-1940), diaries (1917-20, 1922, 1924, 1931, 1935, 1940), clippings, photographs and notes about household science or home economics, the ...

Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, and assorted serials that document Blanc's connection with the Spanish Civil War. A highlight of the collection is the set of manuscripts for Blanc's [i]Wars I Have Known.[/i]

Letter and photographs from American poet and novelist, Maxwell Bodenheim. 1) A.L.S from Maxwell Bodenheim to New York Columnist, Loui Sobel. 1943 2) 7 photographs of Maxwell Bodenheim selling his poetry in Greenwich Village. 1947

Letter and photographs from American poet and novelist, Maxwell Bodenheim. 1) A.L.S from Maxwell Bodenheim to New York Columnist, Loui Sobel. 1943 2) 7 photographs of Maxwell Bodenheim selling his poetry in Greenwich Village. 1947

This collection consists of examples of materials and tools used in the bookmaking process.

Ms. document. Date taken from first and second lines of text: "This Indenture made the one and Twentyeth day of Aprill in the ffourteenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second [...] And in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixtye and two". Signed ...

This collection consists of letters from George Borrow's diaries with a transcription.

This collection includes letters, cards, clippings, photographs, and obituary notices of author Mary Elizabeth Braddon and her son, William Babington Maxwell. All correspondence is from M.E. Braddon except where indicated.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet and educator born in Topeka, Kansas and raised on the South Side of Chicago. In 1950, Brooks was the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category, receiving the award in Poetry for [i]Annie Allen[/i] (1949). Brooks was a beloved ...

Collection of W. S. Merwin printed materials, from early poems published in journals and his first published book [i]A Mask for Janus[/i], to books Merwin contributed to either as translator, editor, writer of introduction, or blurb writer. Includes uncorrected proofs. Most books are cataloged individually and can be searched under ...

Includes notes and letters from recent research on some of these manuscripts. A collection formerly at Eton College, and, in part, originally from the Huth Library. The Common-place books and Notes for English history are in 8 v. bound in red morocco. Another copy of the first 320 entries in v. ...

Collection of clippings from newspaper comics related to the topics of books and libraries.

Correspondence and copies of writing by Richard Douglas Burbank. The majority of the correspondence is between Burbank and composer, Nicolas Slonimsky. Other notable materials include items from Pulitzer-Prize winning composer, Charles Wuorinen, whom Richard Burbank studied under at the Manhattan School of Music.

The Candor Arts records document the short-lived operation of Candor Arts Press, a small publishing company for artist books based in Chicago, between 2014 and 2021. Included are administrative and operational records, correspondence, publications, collaborative and commissioned works, and projects by Candor Arts co-founder, Matt Austin. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more ...

Rufus Washburn was born in Shelburn Falls, Massachusetts, in 1840. He was a bugler in an army band during most of the Civil War. He initially was part of the Fifth Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers, later in the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps. His letters home to ...

Short letters of acknowledgment or introduction from federal, state, and Chicago officials, for George R. Carr, chairman of the board of Dearborn Chemical Co., Chicago, Ill [no. 1. Francis W. Taylor, 1912 Jan. 9, Washington, D.C., to George R. Carr, Chicago, Ill. -- no. 2. Dwight H. Green, 1941 Jan. 25, ...

The Robert Carringer Collection contains television scripts, photos, and press kits that document aspects of the career of Robert Carringer (1942-2023), film scholar and professor of english and cinema studies at the University of Illinois. The collection contains three accessions: 1.) a collection of television scripts for which Carringer acted ...