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1878 Class History (Digital Surrogates)
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Class History of the Class of 1878, consisting of a directory of members of the class of 1878, with photographs where available and letters of the members of the class summarizing their lives and achievements.
Accessibility Standards Project File (Digital Surrogates)
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Accessibility Standards Project File (Digital Surrogates), 1959-1964, contains digitized meeting minutes, reports, membership rosters, letter ballots rules and responses, memorandums, and published booklets, concerning the progress of the National Program to Eliminate and Prevent Architectural Barriers to the Handicapped, and the activities of the American Standards Association Steering and Sectional Committees, formed in 1959 to work on making buildings and facilities accessible and usable to people with disabilities (Project A 117). Digitized material also concern trends and developments in equipment and devices for people with disabilities, and American Standards Association history. Major correspondents and significant names include Timothy J. Nugent (Assistant Professor and Director of Student Rehabilitation Center), Melvin J. Mass (Major General), David Henry (University President, 1959), Leon Chatelain. Jr, and J. W. McNair (Technical Director of American Standards Association). Materials were digitized by the Digital Content Creation Unit in 2011.
ACDIS News (Digital Surrogates)
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ACDIS News (Digital Surrogates), 1989-1994, contain digitized newsletters of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), reporting office news, scholarship awards, ongoing staff research, and upcoming events sponsored by or of interest to the ACDIS office and its staff.
ACRL Student Chapter Records (Born Digital and Digital Surrogates)
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Records of ACRL student chapter including petition for establishing chapter (2004). Other records include student surveys, meeting minutes, conference materials, and publicity.
Administrative Affairs Resource Directories (Born Digital Records)
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Born Digital Records from the Administrative Affairs Resource Directories includes an organization chart and administrative list of all Colleges and University units, 2005-2015. This list was updated on October 30, 2015.
"Against the Wind" Production and Publicity Material (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of the "Against the Wind" Production and Publicity Material contains digitized videotapes including video recordings pertaining to Jean Driscoll and the 100th Boston Marathon, Driscoll's workout diaries, and interviews with Jean Driscoll, coach Marty Morse, Angela Driscoll, fellow athletes Maryanna Young, Candace Cable, and Louise Sauvage.
Agricultural Extension Service Circulars (Digital Surrogates), 1966
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Digital Surrogates from the Agricultural Extension Service Circulars includes a digitized report, concerning the general soil and climatic conditions, as well as land uses in Jo Daviess County. The report is Circular # 927 from February, 1966, and is entitled "Soil Associations of Jo Daviess County, Illinois".
Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences Photograph File (Born Digital Records)
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Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences Photograph File (Born Digital Records), 2015-, includes born digital photographs and digitized images, concerning the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences faculty, alumni, students, awards, research projects, conferences and meetings, social activities, research equipment and infrastructure. A representative portion of the material is available online. Due to this collection's extent, it has gone through minimal processing. For more information, please contact the University Archives. (Record Series 8/1/57)
Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences Videotape File (Digital Surrogates)
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Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences Videotape File, 1948-2015 includes videotapes related to recruitment and promotion; agriculture including farm processes with soybeans and corn, and animals including swine, sheep, and cows; international farm programs in countries including China and Egypt; food and nutrition instructional information; experimentation relating to crops and soil, insects, insecticides and pesticides; interviews with faculty, conferences, award ceremonies, and parties. This series also includes B-Roll/stock footage including video from farms, offices, and landscapes in Illinois. Boxes 1-36 include promotional b-roll, stock footage that was numbered and inventoried by ACES in a spreadsheet provided to the archives. The information available is from ACES and includes time coded descriptions of what is on the tapes. Boxes 36-82 include other videotapes that are unnumbered. Information for these boxes came from the labels affixed to the videotape. Please note that the videotapes have not yet been viewed and verified to be what the labels describe.
Albert Lybyer Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Albert Lybyer Papers (Digital Surrogates), 1919, includes general correspondence, reports, and publications. The series also includes digitized copies of Albert Lybyer's typewritten diary concerning his participation in the King-Crane Commission as a member of the American Peace Delegation to the 1919 Conference of Paris. Digitized material include handwritten side notes in the diary. The diary was split in two files: January 1st - March 30th (87 pages) and March 31st- September 15th (167 pages). Digitized images pertaining to this collection are available at the Archives' image gallery.
Alice Latzer Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Papers of Alice Latzer (1882-1954), Special Student 1897-1901, containing blueprints of Residence for the President (S.S. Beman, architect), cottage for William Esty, professor of electrical engineering (1893-1928), (Cyrus D. McLane, architect); House for Lewis A. Rhodes, professor of German (1896-1903), (Seth Justin Temple, architect); Residences for Ira O. Baker (BS 74, CE 77, D Eng 03), professor of civil engineering (1878-1925), Arthur N. Talbot (BS 81, CE 85) professor of municipal and sanitary engineering (1885-1942), and Lester P Breckenridge, professor of mechanical engineering (1893-1909), (James M. White, architect).
Allan Chase Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Papers of Allan Chase (Digital Surrogates) 1933-93, include scans of the "Vita and biographical information" folder from Box 1.
Allen S. Weller Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of Allen S. Weller Papers contain correspondence, research notes, publications relating to Lorado Taft.
Allerton Park Institute Publications (Digital Surrogates)
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Allerton Park Institute Publications, including printed announcements and proceedings of annual institutes on school library supervision, library personnel programs, library collection, library as a community information center, service to young adults, classification, science literature, Library Services Act, selection and acquisition procedures, school library materials centers, university archives, metropolitan area services and related topics. Also includes 7 cassette tapes of the proceedings from the 36th Annual Institute (1994), and 12 VHS taps of the proceedings from the 32nd and 33rd Annual Institutes (1990-1991).
Alpha Phi Omega (Born Digital Records)
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Records (1932) of the Illinois Chapter (Alpha Alpha) of Alpha Phi Omega include minutes; reports (1985-87); correspondence (1932-73); an Alpha Alpha Chapter history notebook (1932-70); pledge manuals and rules; pledge class histories (1966-81); membership rosters; awards and certificates (1962-91); programs, booklets, and flyers (1948-68); photographs; scrapbooks (1933-97); and plaques (1951-91) concerning the fraternity's many service projects and programs, social events, national fraternity activities, membership and pledging, and anniversaries. A substantial portion of service project records include correspondence, photographs, and publicity materical concerning Christmas parties for area children's homes and an annual Ugly Man On Campus (UMOC) fund raiser. Born digital records from Alpha Phi Omega Records contains photographs and videos from Alpha Phi Omega events including banquets, conferences, service activities, national conventions, and retreats.
Alumni and Faculty Biographical (Alumni News Morgue) File (Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Records)
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Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Records from the Alumni and Faculty Biographical (Alumni News Morgue) File, includes digitized material and born digital records pertaining to the biographical file from deceased and living alumni, faculty members, trustees, and former students. The file was created by the Alumni Association, but University Archives staff have added and continue to add materials to the file. Only a few materials from this file have been digitized or include born digital content. Online records from this series include: 1. A doctoral Dissertation (ca.2007) by Marvin E. Latimer Jr and is entitled "Harold A. Decker (1914-2003): American Choral Music Director". 2. Photographs concern Maudelle Bousfield's plaque on the Bronzeville Walk of Fame along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Chicago, IL. Photographs were taken on April 25, 2015. 3. Three digitized letters from Jim N. Matthews to his family dated October 3 1868, September 15 1868, September 20 1871. 4. University news and documentation concerning Professor Carl Woese's research and achievements Additional digitized material is available upon request, including: 1. Gabriel Guevrekian's biographical file. 2. Audio visual documentation of news broadcast concernign Professors' Fred A Kummerow's research on trans fats. 3. News stories from different academic journals and media, concerning Professor Carl Woese's research and achievements. Indexes available online for specific Alumni Biographic Files can be viewed here: http://archives.library.illinois.edu/social-media-archives/alumni-and-faculty-biographical-alumni-news-morgue-file/ For more information about the Alumni Biographical File, see this Series' main record in Archon. A complete list of alumni who are included in the file does not exist. Please contact the archives if you would like us to search for information on a particular individual.
Alwin Schaller Scrapbook (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates from the Alwin Schaller Scrapbook, includes a digitized copy of the 3rd Annual Electric Show Program, 1910. The original program is item 129 from the scrapbook as listed in this Series' finding aid.
The Amplifier (Education Justice Program) (Digital Surrogates)
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The Amplifier (Education Justice Program) (Digital Surrogates) includes PDF digital surrogates of newsletters published by the Education Justice Program (EJP) at the University of Illinois, concerning education; interviews with EJP members; general issues; descriptions of EJP Programs; book reviews; cartoons; guidelines for submissions to the newsletter; and calendars of programs at the Danville Correctional Center.
Andrew V. Nalbandov Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Andrew V. Nalbandov Papers (Digital Surrogates), ca. 1920-1945, includes digitized handwritten journals, personal memoirs, correspondence, postcards & documents of Vladimir S. Nalbandov (father of Andrew V. Nalbandov) relating to the Nalbandov, Schlee & related families, landowners in the Simferopol region of the Crimea; agricultural practices; education; social life; business; politics; ethnic groups; the Russian Revolution in the Crimea; emigration to western Europe (1920-27) and the United States (1936, 1945-48). Digitized journal include attached photographs. Electronic records pertaining to this Series include Nalbandov's digitized handwritten journal in Russian and its translation to English (2013-2014) by his granddaughter, Olga Griminger. Digitized materials pertain to box 2 from the original material held at the Archives.
Announcements and Pamphlets (Born Digital Records)
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Born Digital Records from the Announcements and Pamphlets includes press releases, images, events publications, logos and wordmarks, and document drafts from the Spurlock Museum concerning the Knowledge at Work exhibit, Cahokia exhibit, Third Thursday events, Spurlock Sundays events, pre-doctoral institute, international student and faculty outreach, museum workshops, local school outreach, open houses, and concerts.
Anthony J. Janata Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Papers of Anthony J. Janata, executive secretary (1921-23) and assistant to the president (1923-66) and secretary of the Board of Trustees (1950-66), contain tape recorded recollections, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and publications related to University Hall, literary societies, David Kinley, Harry W. Chase, College of Fine and Applied Arts, the president's house, Arthur H. Daniels, Arthur C. Willard, the Illini Union, Galesburg and Navy Pier, World War II programs, dormitories, Lloyd Morey, financing the building program and the functions of the Board of Trustees.
Architecture Department Subject File: Manuscript by Nathan C. Ricker (Digital Surrogates)
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Architecture Department Subject File: Manuscript by Nathan C. Ricker (Digital Surrogates), 1922, contains a digitized autobiographical manuscript entitled "The story of a life" by Nathan C. Ricker. The original manuscript can be found in record series 12/2/1, Box 15. See the finding aid of this record series for more information. Additional information about Ricker can be found in record series 12/2/22, "Nathan C. Ricker Papers, 1875-1925". See also Record Series 12/2/21 for "Nathan C. Ricker Transcripts & Textbooks"; and the Archives' Image Gallery for photographs and architectural drawings by N.C. Ricker.
Aretas W. Nolan Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of the Aretas W. Nolan Papers includes typescript drafts of publications including "Nolan Screenings" (1923-1939), a column appearing in the newsletter Fan-Mill, (for Illinois teachers of vocational education), and "My Country School Days," published in the Phi Delta Kappan (1951).
A. Richard Williams (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of the A. Richard Williams collection include photographs, architectural design drawings, articles, and purchasing documents concerning the architectural design and construction of a particular house in Urbana-Champaign.
A. R. Kelly Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates from the A. R. Kelly Papers contain research project abstracts, correspondences, and survey questionnaires concerning research, ethnography, and archeology of the southern Illinois Indians. Subjects include southern Illinois Native American population research, archeology, ethnography, and anthropology. Significant correspondences include Bishop Joseph F. Schlarman, Fay-Cooper Cole, Roland B. Dixon, A. V. Kidder, Donald Goodchild, A. H. Daniels, and H. W. Chase.
Art and Design Collection Catalogues and Inventories (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of the Art and Design Collection Catalogues and Inventories consist of three ledger volumes including Art Gallery Inventory, Catalogue of the School of Art and Design of the Illinois Industrial University, and Art and Design Inventory. Ledgers provide an inventory of collections and materials held by Art and Design and listing item description, date acquired, source, value, date of disposal or transfer, and campus location of items transferred from Art and Design. Registers record art and casts acquired as early as 1876 although they appear to have been compiled or annotated at a later date (1891, 1907-14) as an inventory of art work, casts, copies, and drawing and sculpting equipment including model forms, tables, trestles, easels, frames, and tools.
Art and Design Department Newsletters (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of the Art and Design Department Newsletters includes "A Line on Design", an alumni newsletter with biographical information, photographs, addresses, and others news concerning Design faculty, students, and alumni.
Arthur W. Ghent Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of the Aruthur W. Ghent Papers includes bibliographic card
Asian American Cultural Center (Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Records)
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The Asian American Cultural Center was established in 2005. The Asian American Cultural Center provides the University of Illinois community with space to gather and share the diverse and rich cultures that are part of the Asian American experience. Records in this series include photos, program materials, annual reports, and student organization materials.
Asian American Cultural Center Publications (Digital Surrogates)
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Asian American Cultural Center Publications (1998-2006) consist of posters relating to Asian American Awareness Month (2004-2006), Unseen Unheard Conferences (1998, 2003), co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Resource Committee and the Asian American Studies Program, and an Asian Pacific American Graduate Student Organization Conference (2006), co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program.The Peel magazine written by students ran between 2000-2005.
Association for Women in Slavic studies Archives (Digital Surrogates)
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Association for Women in Slavic Studies Archives (Digital Surrogates) (2007-2018), includes newsletters from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) and a document pertaing to the internet landing page for AWSS, concerning Slavic Studies, academia, bibliographies, scholarship, Eastern Europe, membership, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), book reviews, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Russia, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia. This series includes significant materials on the field of Slavic Studies.
Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs Records (Born Digital Records)
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Born Digital Records from the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs Records include a born-digital publication "Remembering the Cosmopolitan Club," in honor of Executive Director Andrea Shields upon her retirement. The publication contains a compilation of messages from former students of the Cosmopolitan Club at the University of Illinois.
ATO Chapter Files (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of the ATO Chapter Files includes "History of Illinois Gamma Zeta of Alpha Tau Omega, 1895-1922".
Avery Brundage Papers and Audiovisuals (Digital Surrogates)
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Avery Brundage Papers and Audiovisuals (Digital Surrogates), 1929-1969, contains correspondence, articles and newspaper clippings, concerning US athletics managed by the Amateur Athletic Union (A.A.U). Include subjects as American Track and Field team performance in Oslo (1934); A.A.U bylaws and decisions about varied topics (1929, 1932 -34); controversy about US participation and neutral position at 1936 Olympics in Germany (1934, 1935); concerns about amateur sport vs. the commercial side of athletics (1934); and a polemic occurred in the 1968 Olympic Games at Mexico, involving athletic shoes wore at track and field competitions, known as "Shoe Scandal" (1968- 69). Digitized papers include the article "For Honor of Country and Glory of Sport" by Brundage (1934) and the A.A.U publication "Fair Play for the American Athletes" (1935) relating to the polemic raised regarding the participation of US athletes in the 1936 Olympics in Germany under the Nazi regime. Materials also include two digitized episodes of This Week in Sports show from the 8th Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley (California, February 1960) narrated by Marty Glickman, covering varied competitions, medals awarded, and U.S. teams' performance. Audiovisual recordings also include opening ceremonies and a car commercial. Major correspondents in digitized materials include R.S. Marshall (Supt. Parks and Recreation, Birmingham Alabama); Daniel Ferris (Secretary Treasury, US Amateur Athletic Union); H.W. Janssen (Manufacturers' Representative, Import and Export, New York); and Jeremiah T Mahoney (Phillips, Mahoney, Leibell and Fielding, Attorneys and Counselors at Law). Access copies of digitized TV show episodes are available upon request.
Barry Brehm Photographs (Born Digital Records)
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Barry Brehm Photographs include digitized copies of slides, and digital photographs, taken by Mr. Brehm between 1974 and 2017, of landscapes and the built environment. Specific topics and locations documented include the University of Illinois Campus, Robert Allerton Park, barns and agricultural buildings around Champaign-Urbana, the University of Illinois Campus (including the Arboretum, Idea Garden, and Japan House), Kickapoo State Park, state and local parks in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, New England, and Oregon), and National Parks (Glacier, Grand Teton, Yellowstone).
Biological Computer Laboratory Publications (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates from the Biological Computer Laboratory Publications include grant proposals, technical reports, publications, general reports, and yearly summaries concerning cybernetics, biological computing, sound processing, self-organizing systems, visual processing, language processing, computational semantics, complex computer systems, computers and cognitive functions, computational linguistics, and information processing. Authors include Heinz von Foerster, Murray L. Babcock, W. Ross Ashby, Gotthard Gunther, Albert A. Mullin, Paul E. Weston, Gordon Pask, John Russell, Humberto R. Maturana, Lars Lofgren, Alfred Inselberg, Dan Cohen, Alex M. Andrew, Francisco Varela, and more.
Black Student Association Publications (Digital Surrogates)
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Black Student Association Publications (Digital Surrogates), 1967-1974, contains digitized issues of Drums (1967-1969), The Black Rap (1969-1971), Yombo (1971-1973) and the Irepodun yearbook (1972-1973) containing feature articles, editorials, poetry, book reviews, cartoons, photographs, announcements, and advertisements about the University, Champaign-Urbana, police, Vietnam, racism, Black students, and white society.
Black Students for Revolution Records (Born Digital Records)
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Born Digital Records and Audiovisual Material from the Black Students for Revolution Records contains photographs, videos, flyers, newspaper articles, social media records, and web clippings related to BSFR operations, protests, walkouts, and educational events.
Blair Kling Papers (Digital Surrogates)
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Digital Surrogates of the Blair Kling Papers contains digitized audio cassette tapes of oral interviews conducted by Blair Kling and undergraduate students as a part of a history seminar Kling taught in 1978. Topics include academic freedom and the resignation of President George Stoddard from the University in 1953.
Board of Trustees Meetings Biennial Reports (Digital Surrogates)
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Board of Trustees Meetings Biennial Reports (Digital Surrogates), 1867-2011, contains digitized copies of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees reports due to the Governor of Illinois, covering a period since the University foundation in 1867. Digitized material concern major decisions over board conformation and changes, University budgets, faculty designation and salary as well as salary policies, Campus management and improvement, different programs' curriculum design and revision, policies on research sponsorship and patents, and agreements with other institutions. Materials were digitized in a large-scale digitization project conducted by the University Library in 2007.
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