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  • Ed Kieser Papers (Born Digital Records and Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born Digital Records and Digital Surrogates from the Ed Kieser Papers, chief Meteorologist of WILL Radio (1987-2010), contain WILL radio broadcasts, including "Talk to Ed Kieser" segments, and "Tornadoes with Ed Kieser" videos; interview recordings; tornado films; presentation slides on tornado preparedness seminars, weather trends in Illinois and the U.S.; meteorological radar pictures of east central Illinois, and storm images. Streaming access to video recordings are also available at https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/playlist/dedicated/59489761/1_ql7fhy82/1_1gvm2hoa
  • Edmund J. James Publication Scrapbooks (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Edmund J. James Publication Scrapbooks (Digital Surrogates), 1905, contains digitized correspondence and memoranda, relating to a Memorandum sent by University President Edmund J. James to the President of the United States, concerning the sending of an educational commission to China, in the context of a process known as the Regeneration of China. For more information about President Edmund J. James publications and scrapbooks, see record series 2/5/13. And for additional information about President Edmund James, see Records Relating to Edmund J. James (1904-1920) at Archon catalogue.
  • Edward Caldwell Cherry Mine Disaster Research Collection (Born Digital and Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The born digital and digitized content of the Edward Caldwell Cherry Mine Disaster Research Collection consists of research and source materials collected by Edward Caldwell related to the 1909 mining disaster in Cherry, Illinois, its victims, and the aftermath of the incident. Materials date from 1903 to 2007 and include publications, letters and diaries, compilations of newspaper articles, reports, photographs, and indexes of victims' names. Edward E. Caldwell (1930-2015) was an engineer with an interest in local history. He began collecting and organizing materials related to the Cherry Mine disaster in 1975 and continued gathering research for the next three decades. The Cherry Mine disaster, which resulted from a fire that started on November 13, 1909, in the Cherry, Illinois, coal mine, was the third most deadly coal mining tragedy in U.S. History, and 259 men and boys lost their lives. The born digital and digitized content contains digital copies of a variety of sources on the Cherry Mine disaster compiled by Caldwell. The sources include transcribed newspaper articles primarily from 1909-1910, publications dating from 1909 to 2007, official reports on the disaster and the response, the coroner's inquest, legal documents for the mine, transcribed diaries and letters, photographs of the mine and miners, and indices of victims' names to various sources. Online access to some documents and the photographs is restricted due to copyright. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Edward Caldwell Cherry Mine Disaster Research Collection (MS 515). Both born digital and digitized items were migrated from DVDs in 2017. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Edwin B. Peebles Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Edwin B. Peebles Papers include sermons, church pamphlets, and correspondence concerning different religious leaders' communications with extraterrestrial beings and Biblical characters (via seances), whom they claim spoke to them and provided them with Biblical truths. Series also includes digitized seances conducted for Peebles.
  • Edwin C. Rae Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Edwin C. Rae Papers (Digital Surrogates), 1945-1947, 1958, contains digitized pictures, albums, correspondence, certificates, catalogs, reports, and magazines related with the restoration and preservation of art and architecture pieces in Germany after World War II. Materials are related with distinctions received by Mr. Edwin C. Rae for his important contribution as Chief of Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, at the Office of Military Government for Bavaria (Germany). Edwin C. Rae was an American specialist at Central Collecting Point, a depot used by the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program after the end of the Second World War. Materials also include a digitized copy of of Heute, a specialized illustrated art magazine (Number 9, April 1946); a handwritten music sheet; a handwritten diary, entitled "Moments, Fine Arts and Archives Work, Diary" (1945-1947, 1958) and a handwritten note with a food listings entitled "Train Special, 22. XII. 45, Wein - Budapest".
  • Eldon Ray James Oral History (Born Digital)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Oral History of Eldon Ray James (September 2023), retired librarian, ALA member, and formerly incarcerated person, recorded on September 12, 19, and 23, 2023, containing video and audio recordings, and transcripts. Recordings include information on James' childhood, military service, universities attended, employment, incarceration, becoming a librarian, work with Dr. Loriene Roy and ALA, the "Prisoners Right to Read," the Freedom to Read Honor Roll, reflections on his life, the library profession, and library services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Interview conducted by Deb Sica, Alameda County Library, questions developed by Deb Sica and Erin Berman, Alameda County Library.
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Photograph and Video File (Born Digital Records and Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Electrical and Computer Engineering Photograph and Video File includes scanned and digital photos and videos concerning students, faculty, staff, alumni, events including banquets and student events, campus buildings, campus scenes, classrooms, and research.
  • Electronic Records of the Office for Intellectual Freedom, 1990-2008
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born-digital records from the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) contain agendas, correspondence, conferences papers (annual and midwinter), budgets, member rosters, official forms, meeting minutes, memos, publications, speeches, manuals, reports, statements, photographs, posters, brochures, event programs, and newspaper reprints concerning the activities of the Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT), the Committee on Professional Ethics, and the Freedom to Read Foundation. Topical areas include of OIF's campaign Banned Books Week, Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), ALA code of ethics and users' rights, public library internet use policy, internet filtering, intellectual property and privacy, internet access management in U.S. public libraries, and membership to the Committee on Professional Ethics.
  • Elisabeth Hanson Papers (Born Digital Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The born digital content of the Elisabeth Hanson Papers consists of the digital records relating to Elisabeth Hanson, an amateur local researcher, and her research on the ecology, geography, and history of East Central Illinois and her 2012 book East Central Illinois: Exploring the Beginnings. Elisabeth Hanson was born November 2, 1917 in Columbia, Missouri. In 1945 Elisabeth moved to Champaign, Illinois, and became interested in researching the history of East Central Illinois. In 1967, Hanson began a study of the pre-settlement landscape of Piatt County, the first government land surveys of the area, and the first purchases of public lands. This study expanded to include ecological and cultural developments in East Central Illinois, and in 2012, Hanson published her book East Central Illinois: Exploring the Beginnings. Elisabeth died at age 98 in 2016. The born digital content contains a 2002 video interview of Elisabeth Hanson; a PDF of her book from 2014; and correspondence, research materials and other writings by Elisabeth Hanson from 1991-1998 including writings on Chief Illiniwek, local history, and Native Americans in Illinois. The content is organized into three folders: Interview with Elisabeth Hanson; Correspondence, Research Materials, and Other Writings; and PDF of East-Central Illinois: Exploring the Beginnings. The physical items of the Elisabeth Hanson Papers are managed by the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections at the University of Illinois Library. The born digital content comprises a portion of the Elisabeth Hanson Papers and was migrated from CDs and DVDs in 2018. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Elizabeth Ambrose Merrill Letter (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Elizabeth Ambrose Merrill Letter consists of a letter from Elizabeth Ambrose Merrill to Anna Burnham of Fort Towson, Oklahoma. Writing from October 23 to November 8, 1837, Merrill described the events leading up to the murder of Elijah Lovejoy by an anti-abolition mob in Alton, Illinois. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Elizabeth Ambrose Merrill Letter (MS 1134). The collection was completely digitized in 2025. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Elmer Roberts Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogats of the Elmer Roberts Papers includes correspondance, reports, and publications concerning James A. Hunter (B.S. in Agriculture, University of Illinois, 1914) and his interest in China.
  • E.M. Bails Collection (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Endowment Fund Account Ledger
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copy of the endowment fund account ledger of Charles C. Soule, Treasurer of the Trustees of the Endowment Fund of the ALA, contains a ledger book, includes dates of transactions, sources and objects of receipts and disbursements, and interest acquired on balance in the endowment fund, and records of major transactions affecting the endowment fund (pp. 100-109).
  • Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin Records (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin Records (Digital Surrogates), 1969, contains a digitized copy of the Engineering Experiment Bulletin number 500, relating to the research "Restraint Characteristics of Flexible Riveted and Bolted Beam-to-Column Connections" by C. W. Lewitt, E. Chesson Jr. and W. H. Munse. For more information about the Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin or the University Experiment Station, please see this Record Series catalog record in Archon.
  • Engineering Open House Records (Born Digital and Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born Digital and Digital Surrogates from the Engineering Open House Records, contain pictures; videos; event posters, booklets, and programs; flyers; historical data; newspaper clippings; meeting minutes and agendas; correspondence; budgets; fund request forms; presentation slides; reports; rosters; guides; competition bylaws and descriptions; campus maps, plans and bus routes; certificates; and press releases; concerning the Engineering Open House (EOH). Additional material is available upon request, including photographs, sponsor logos, participants information, budgets, forms, and correspondence, concerning EOH and the Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition (JS). Some files may require the use of specialized software for display and access.
  • Engineering Photographs and Negatives (Digital Surrogates), 1950-66, 1984
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Engineering Photographs and Negatives, 1950-66, 1984, include digital surrogates related to research in departments (e.g. the ILLIAC computers in the Digital Computer Lab, testing plasma jet generators in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering and laboratories, electrical engineering research in the Antenna Lab, and metallurgical and mining engineering research using Filar Micrometer microscopes equipped with relay lenses to measure length of metals at elevated temperatures) as well as faculty portraits (1984) by department.
  • Engineering Scrapbooks (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Engineering Scrapbooks (Digital Surrogates), 1894-1969, contains digitized scrapbooks including newspaper clippings, programs, invitations, article reprints, and photographs concerning the history of the College; the Railway Engineering program; engineering research; faculty and staff accomplishments and innovations; conferences, events, and symposia; and the activities of women faculty and students. This series also include faculty photograph portraits (1910). Additional scrapbooks from years 1924-1969 are not available online but have also been digitized and can be accessed upon request.
  • Environmental Health and Safety Publications (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born Digital Records of the Environmental Health and Safety Publications includes the 2019 Water Quality Report.
  • Ernest C. Faust Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Ernest Carroll Faust Papers includes Faust's correspondence with Zoology Professor Henry B. Ward relating to parasitology in China, Collection of specimens, publications, professional societies, positions, Dr. Charles W. Stiles, paragonimus, Human Helminthology and related topics.
  • Eugene Davenport Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Eugene Davenport Papers includes correspondence and publications relating to agricultural studies and personal travels. Significant correspondence includes a letter from Abraham Lincoln to J. O. Cunningham, given to Eugene Davenport.
  • Evarts B. Greene World War I Papers (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Evarts B. Greene World War I Papers consists of the files of Evarts B. Greene (1870-1947). These files are associated with the University of Illinois’s response to World War I. Evarts B. Greene, the head of the History Department at the University of Illinois and former dean of the College of Literature and Arts, served as the chairman of several World War I-related committees. These included the Committee on the War Aims Course (1918), the University War Committee (1918-1919), Central Committee on the Belgian Children's Relief Fund (1917), and the Christmas Relief Fund Committee (1920). He was also a member of the Committee on the History of Participation of the University in the Great War (1919-1920). The digitized content primarily relates to the War Issues, a course required by the War Department for all university students enrolled in the Student Army Training Corps. Materials include correspondence with other universities, instructors, section leaders, and circulars and correspondence from the War Department. Also included in the collection are correspondence with multiple war and humanitarian aid committees. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Evarts B. Greene, World War I Papers, 1916-1920 (MS 355). The collection was partially digitized in 2025. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • The evening gazette (Monmouth, Ill.)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Evolving Archives Initiative Oral Histories audio recordings and transcriptions (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Evolving Archives Initiative Oral Histories audio recordings and transcriptions (Born Digital Records), 2012-, includes oral histories and transcripts from interviews with Anu Murphy, Associate Director of the NetMath program; Jill Gengler, GSLIS Help Desk Manager; Kathryn Luther Henderson, GSLIS faculty; William Henderson, Preservation Librarian; Linda Smith, GSLIS Associate Dean and Professor; and Sue Searing, Librarian for User Services and Associate Dean of Libraries. Materials relate to the interviewees' experiences at the University of Illinois both as a students and as Faculty.
  • Executive Board Transcripts of Proceedings (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of the Transcripts of the Proceedings of the ALA Executive Board meetings from 1909 to 1944. The entirety of boxes 2 through 9 have been scanned.
  • Executive Director's Conference Arrangements File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Executive Director Subject File (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from the Executive Director's Subject File, including files on the Carnegie Corporation grants to the Canadian Library Council (1926-1946), Canadian library survey (1928-38), and a copy of the summary report of the National Advisory Commission on Libraries from December 1967.
  • Exercise Routine Demonstration Film Cartridges and Audio Cassettes (Digital Surrogate)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Exercise Routine Demonstration Film Cartridges and Audio Cassettes contain audio cassettes and 8mm film cartridges to demonstrate therapist administered physical exercise routines related to movements of neck.
  • "Expanding Horizons", the History of Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services at the University of Illinois...
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    "Expanding Horizons", the History of Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services at the University of Illinois (Digital Surrogate), 1998, contains a complete digitized copy of this publication about the first 50 years of the DRES. Covers DRES' history, faculty biographies, photographs, related research projects, achievements and prospective plans. This material was digitized by the Digital Content Creation Unit in 2011.
  • The express (Tallula, Ill.)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Extension and Program Development Handbooks and Manuals (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born Digital Records from Extension and Program Development Handbooks and Manuals includes Illinois Crop Pro: A Professional's Guide to Production and Protection. This general file contains significant material on Illinois Agronomy Handbook, Illinois Agricultural Pest Management Handbook, Illinois Crop Protection Technology Conference, and the Pest Management & Crop Development Bulletin, 2002 issues.
  • Extension Audiovisual Materials (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Extension Audiovisual Materials include film and audiotape recordings concerning the Knox County 4-H Show (1956) featuring cattle and sheep showing events; advertisements for the "Mealtime USA: Food from the Field to the Table" extension program at Carl Sandberg Junior College in Galesburg, IL (ca. 1970s) featuring talks including crepe making, pre-natal nutrition, pest prevention, and meat smoker construction. Series includes one 1/4" audiotape, two 16mm films, and DVD copies of each film.
  • External Videotapes Records (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates from the External Videotapes Records, contains a digitized video relating to the University from outside of University sources. Available online, this series includes a video of Hobo Parade activities, track and field games, and Football games with marching band circa 1923. This series also includes a copy of the Oprah Winfrey Show, "Pompom Squads: Sex Objects?" broadcasted in February, 1990; covers the controversy concerning negative repercussions of college cheerleading and dance team squads, specifically UIUC's Ilinettes, its relationship with sexual crimes on campus, the debate over the University sponsoring the Illinettes dance team; gender debates about sexism, sexual objectification of women's bodies through dance teams and their outfits, Illinettes dance team being a sexual provocation or a sports practice; as well as the relationship between sexual abuse, alcohol problems in campus and practices held in fraternity and sororities organizations. Please contact the archives to gain access to this content.
  • Facilities and Services Project Drawing and Plans Files (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Facilities and Services Project Drawing and Plans Files (Digital Surrogates), 1885-1999, contains digitized drawings, sketches, blueprints, fabric samples, and construction photographs concerning architectural projects and proposals for Campus development and facilities' improvement. This series also include additional digitized material including campus building plans. Access to this material will be provided only with written permission of the University Archivist.
  • Facsimiles Map Collection
    Map Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Map historians have relied on copies (facsimiles) of old maps for more than a century. In some cases, the copies they used were restrikes of images from original printing plates. Beginning in the middle of the 19th century, map collectors, initially individuals but later libraries and learned societies, collected original early maps and reprinted them in facsimile atlases. Nineteenth-century facsimiles were often lithographed prints of hand-traced maps. Not until the early 20th century did photography begin to play a larger role in creating facsimile images. The maps and atlases contained in this digital collection include some of the most important of the facsimiles published in the late 19th century including Wieder’s Monumenta Cartographica and Nordenskiöld’s Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography. Please contact the Map Library regarding these items via e-mail at charts@library.illinois.edu or by calling 217-333-0827.
  • Facts for Freshmen Records (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates from the Facts for Freshmen records includes a digitized copy of the 1914 publication "Facts for Freshmen", published by the Dean of Men, Thomas A. Clark, containing suggestions on planning a program of study and descriptions of administrative procedures, organization of the University, regulations and student service.
  • Faculty Minutes (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Minutes of the College of Engineering faculty, 1897-1902, 1918-2008, include correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, reports, resolutions, committee nomination slates and election ballots, and proposals relating to requirements for admission, courses, and graduation; registration procedures; proposed revisions to the curriculum (e.g. the introduction of a master's program in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. program in Industrial Engineering) and college bylaws; faculty committees; petitions; grading; requirements for theses; special guest lectures; and the publication of the Technograph. This series also contains background documents for meetings of Heads, Directors, and Deans as well as memorials for faculty members.
  • Faculty Organization Publications (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Faculty Organization Publications includes Laputa Gazette (1968-70).
  • Faculty Portraits File (Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Images)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Images from the Faculty Portraits File, contain faculty photographs relating to different University departments and different time periods. Faculty portraits were taken by the Photographic Service, which provides the staff and students of the University with photographers for public relations, instruction, and research, as well as providing portraits, passports, film strips, slides, and film processing.
  • Faculty Reports (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates from Faculty Reports of the College of Engineering (1918-1927), include copies of correspondence, course schedules, and minutes concerning proposed revisions to the curriculum, such as the addition of courses pertaining to war issues during World War I; faculty committees; student enrollment statistics; special events and lectures, including efforts to invite the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education to the University of Illinois (1919-1920); the implementation of an engineering aptitude test for college freshman in order to better shape students' course selections (1919); and new faculty at the college.
  • The farmers' gazette (Sterling, Ill.)
    History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library  ·   Digital Special Collections