Browse Collections (545 total)
Rachel Richardson Collection
The Rachel Richardson Collection features the family and colleagues of Illinois Speaker of the House William Granville Cochran. Cochran served as…
Springfield Association of Commerce and Industry Collection
In 1953, Illinois businessmen established the Springfield Association of Commerce and Industry (ACI) to promote the economic, civil, and social…
Samuel Alschuler Collection
Samuel Alschuler, judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1915-1936), was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 20, 1959…
Benjamin Grierson Collection
Benjamin H. Grierson began his working career as a music teacher in Jacksonville, Illinois, in the 1850s. He enlisted in the Army as a private in the…
Duncan-Kirby Family Collection
The Duncan-Kirby Collection contains photographs featuring the family of Edward Payson Kirby and his wife Julia Duncan Kirby. Edward P. Kirby served…
Day Family Collection
This collection includes family portraits of members of the Illinois-based Day family including William and Margaret E. Keyes Day, their children, and…
Ada Rice Collection
Ada Rice was the wife of Dan Rice, a Chicago-native businessman who successfully bred and raced thoroughbred horses from the 1940s to the 1970s. In…
French-Wicker Family Collection
The French-Wicker Collection features Illinois Governor Augustus C. French, his son-in-law Cassius M. Wicker, and their families and colleagues.…
Adlai Stevenson III Collection
Adlai Stevenson III served as an at-large member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1964-1967. He went on to become the state Treasurer…
Adlai Stevenson II Collection
Adlai Stevenson II was the 31st Governor of Illinois, serving from 1949 until 1953. He received the Democratic nomination for president 1952 and 1956,…
Brown-Barnett Family Collection
Kentucky-native James J. Brown (ca. 1828-1862) married Sarah A. Barnett in Illinois on November 19, 1857. The couple had two sons, John (b. October…
Butterfield Collection
Boston-born James A. B. Butterfield fought for the Union in the Second Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War. Sergeant Butterfield died on May 6,…
Burkhalter Family Collection
James L. Burkhalter moved to Illinois from Pennsylvania in 1856. In 1858 he married Martha Ellen Adle in Galesburg and began raising a family. At the…
Buckmaster-Curran Family Collection
The Buckmaster-Curran Collection features early Illinois families descended from Colonel John Durkee of Norwich, Connecticut, who fought in the…
Roger D. Bridges Collection
After receiving a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Roger D. Bridges started his career as the Director of…
Blackford Collection
This collection features photographs relating to the Blackford Family of Findlay, Ohio. Price Blackford (1804-1851) of Pennsylvania married Abigail…
Barrickman and Rowe Family Collection
The Barrickman and Rowe Family Collection highlights the family of Mary S. Barrickman Rowe. Barrickman Rowe's father, Christian "C.J." Barrickman…
Banks-Mercer Family Collection
The Banks-Mercer Family Collection features portraits of members of the Banks and Mercer families of Fulton County, Illinois. Nathaniel Butler Banks…
Santa Fe Railroad Company Collection
In 1940, the city of Chicago completed a construction project connecting Western Avenue, Western Boulevard, 31st Street and 31st Boulevard. The…
Kent Keller Collection
An Illinois native, Kent E. Keller began his working career as a school teacher and principal in Ava, Illinois, before becoming a lawyer and…
University of Illinois Professors Collection
This photo album contains portraits of students and professors at the Illinois Industrial University (now the University of Illinois at…
John T. McCutcheon Collection
John T. McCutcheon worked as a political cartoonist for Chicago newspapers including the Chicago Record (1889-1903) and the Chicago Tribune…
Wilson Family Collection
Harry Boone Wilson, a teacher and postal service worker, and his son, chemical engineer Melville Medley Wilson, collected genealogical information on…
McCormick Theological Seminary Collection
The first classes at the McCormick Theological Seminary took place in a log cabin in Indiana in 1829. During the Civil War the school relocated to…
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…