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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 AIDS Advocacy ephemera collection documents 20th-century efforts to advocate for the awareness and research of Aquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), particularly in the New York art world. Materials include charitable event announcements and invitations; catalogs of materials for sale; and informational flyers, newsletters, and booklets, among others. Organizations represented include ...

The Shana Alexander collection of H.A.L. Craig materials (1945-1997) consists of correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, and magazines. The bulk of the collection relates to Irish author H.A.L. Craig's writings and to his death in 1978.

The Shana Alexander Papers consist 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 the first woman staff ...

The William Allingham Papers date from 1846 to 1920. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence, with letters sent to and written by Allingham, his wife Helen, their children, and other third-party individuals. The collection also includes visual and literary works, such as sketches, poems, and ephemera. The ...

Collection of French socialist novelists.

Collection of French socialist novelists.

Hugh C. Atkinson was a former UIUC University Librarian. Atkinson's collection of Theodore Dreiser includes 223 first editions, along with later editions and variant issues, of Dreiser's publications. Included in the collection is one of only twelve original copies of [i]Tragic America[/i] (1936). The collection was donated to RBML by Mrs. ...