Browse Collections (545 total)
Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers (Applications for Passes, Discharges, Furloughs, and Transfers, February 17, 1863 to June 25, 1863)
View the items in Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers (Applications for Passes, Discharges, Furloughs, and Transfers, February 17, 1863 to June 25, 1863)
Richard Yates (Wabash College) Papers
Browse the Richard Yates (Wabash College) Finding Aid Richard Yates Sr. (1815-1873) was governor of Illinois (1861-1865) and U.S. Senator from the…
Richard Ogilvie Collection
Governor Richard B. Ogilvie spent his career as a lawyer working in private practice and for the federal government including serving as a special…
Richard J. Daley Collection
Richard J. Daley served as the mayor of Chicago from 1955-1976. Prior to his mayoral election, Daley served in the Illinois House of Representatives…
Reeder Collection
Named for collection donor Warren A. Reeder of Hammond, Indiana, the images in this collection highlight the city of Danville, Illinois in the 1900s.…
Reed Collection
The Reed Collection contains images of family members in the Reed, Thurman, and Conlee families from Maquon in Knox County, Illinois, and the…
Rawalt Collection
The Rawalt family descended from Revolutionary War soldier John Rawalt and his wife Ann McMahon, who lived in New York and Pennsylvania. Their son,…
Ragen Collection
The Ragen Collection features images of Joseph Ragen in his professional life. Ragen began his career as a prison warden in 1931 at the Menard County…
Rachel Richardson Collection
The Rachel Richardson Collection features the family and colleagues of Illinois Speaker of the House William Granville Cochran. Cochran served as…
Purcell Family Collection
The Purcell Family Collection contains images of Charles E. Purcell of Kewanee, Illinois, and his son in law, William H. McFerson of Quincy, Illinois.…
Polish-American Team Collection
Images in this collection include team and athlete photos of members of the Polish-American delegation to the 1934 Polish Athletic Games in Warsaw.…
Peter Cartwright Collection
Peter Cartwright was a Methodist circuit rider and member of the Illinois General Assembly. Cartwright served the Methodist Church in Kentucky,…
Peithmann Collection
Irvin M. Peithmann worked at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale beginning in 1931 as the manager of the university farm. Peithmann explored…
Paul Powell Collection
Paul Powell served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1935 through 1964, representing the fifty-first and then fifty-ninth districts.…
Parks Family Collection
Photographs in this collection include images of daily life for several individuals including women going to work the fields in Germany at the end of…
Palatine Commercial Corporation Collection
The Palatine Commercial Corporation began in 1917 as a co-operative of stores catering to the Polish American community. The organization soon opened…
Otto Krampikowsky Collection
Otto J. Krampikowsky was a Chicagoan who served in World War I. His collection contains numerous images from the war and the armistice period.
Otto Kerner Collection
Otto Kerner, Jr., served as the governor of Illinois from 1961-1968. Prior to his election as governor, Kerner was the United States Attorney for the…
Orendorff Family Collection
The Orendorff Family Collection follows the descendents of pre-Revolutionary war German immigrant, Christian Orendorff.Christian Orendorff, a German…
On the Job in Illinois Collection
The On the Job in Illinois Collection chronicles men and women at work in a variety of industries throughout Illinois. The images appeared in an…
Old American Consulate-Paris Collection
Photographs in this collection include interior and exterior images of the old American consulate in Paris located at 1 rue des Italiens as it…
Octavia Roberts Collection
Octavia Ridgely Roberts was born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1875. She was one of five children of Charles D. Roberts, a men’s clothing…
Noyes W. Miner Papers (SC 1052)
Reminiscences written to be given as a lecture on Abraham Lincoln. He states that every thing he says will be taken from personal memories and facts…
Northern Illinois University-School of Education Collection
The Northern Illinois University School of Education received its charter in 1895 as the Northern Illinois State Normal School with classes beginning…